The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-02-09


has been Indicated we Aft hoi husi
oess rsotis ~ Kanshameha hat ~ a.
better Than ] have iold ysu.
After ths seruni season yon ouri
10 ret two ntitfs a year from eaeh
COW Prom this IN ynu can hFufe ths
pron,s for yourself ton papol. n GER
tainly seems easy enough 10 Fsi rich
quick on such n scheme. doesn't ~
ana yet. ist me warn YOU. u lent NJ
easy ~ u looks. not withstanding our
Hawaiian boys ai kRmehameha Do
better. proportionately than ! told you.
| won't you come out 20 the schools and
let ". show you how
20 much for swine. The cgg and
poultry proposition In perhaps even
more ailurinR 20 many people but
| from my observations greater diffioul-
| ties are In the way to successful poul-
try raising than In almost any other
branch OF stock raising. Suitable feed
In high IN price. and large fiocks are
much more subject to disease here
than elsewhere. II is a business OF
small detail to the careful looking after
OF which every one Is not adapted.
Poultry raising requires comparative
ly little capital, nor is the work at
tached OF a hard manual character.
Thus is II well fitted for women. But
expel from your minds the thought
that It Is an ideal employment for In
valids. Horticulture. or agriculture,
hundred times before poultry-culture.
unless you can hire most of the work
done A few, yes. perhaps less than
81 l.o qttn d.
ed commercially, so far as I can as
certain. The rest only tell about their
doings However, don't fail to keep
dozen hens to supply your home table
with fresh eggs and juicy roasters. If
these do well add another dozen, then
another until some day you may
emerge a full-fiedged poultry baron
The most successful OF California poul-
| try men OF whom l know made haste
slowly In the beginning.
The dairy products item is attractive
-s4OO. 900 Of butter. cheese and milk
| (probably condensed) shipped to Ha-
wall during ten months preceding Oct.
| 1905. A small dairy farmer ought to be
satisfied with $4,000 gross income per
annum. II so, here is an opportunity
| for 40 enterprising dairy men to put
| their skill against the fates of a semi
tropical climate. If they are of the
right stuff they will win. We have
| daily demonstrated the fact at Kane
| hameha for the past four or five years.
| If l possessed the capital and the abil-
| ity to make small collections, l should
want for nothing better in an agricul-
| tural way. Modern dairy farming is
| an intensive type of agriculture, offer
| ing full play for the most diversified
| faculties. And at the present prices of
| milk 90 to 12 1-2 cents per quartz, it
is profitable. A good milch COW under
proper management should net 800 per
annum. The record of Kamehameha
Schools crack dairy COW, "Pua lima" "
a full blood Jersey, for the twelve
months beginning April 13, 1902, and
ending April II. 1903 shows that she
produced SS43 pounds milk of 81 per
cent butter fat in the 365 days. At 10
cents per quart, $411 gross was realized
for the years product, and as 500 is a
liberal estimate for feed and care, she
netted us little better than $500. This
merely shows possibilities. Probably
your herd of twenty to fifty cows would
average less for some time to come
they have with US.
One more concrete example: our
statistics show an expenditure of $780,
600 for oranges from California alone
In less than a year! Now, l am as
loyal a Californian as native son of
the Golden West can be, and yet |
must admit that I've tasted as we'll
favored Hawaiian-grown oranges as
California ever shipped to us. Q'm a
little suspicious she hasn't sent us the
best she grows, though.) The only
trouble Is that they contain few too
many seeds compared to the Washing
ton navel. but a Burbank would breed
out these non essential seeds within II
few years. That is what we need in
Hawaii, a Burbank; yes, there is
work OF high order for a Burbank
among us. ] wish he could be induc-
ed to visit us. If only for month or
two. Such visit would repay the ex-
pense hundredfold in inspiration
alone. And his cooperation in the
slightest degree would be priceless to
our horticultural interests. Can not
something be done IN this direction by
our Commission OF Agriculture and
Forestry? II is worth while.
Has 1t ever occurred to you that our
very isolation might be made one OF
our greatest assets in an agricultural
way? The opportunities for the Gre
alton OF new tropical fruits and the
Improvement of old varieties is intensi-
fled because Of this seclusion, which
is one OF our best guards against con-
tamination. Imagine the great gains
that must accrue from the introduction
OF each new and improved fruit; the
same would be true of live stock. For
example, note the wealth that has
come to the Isle OF Jersey because OF
her splendid cattle that could not have
been maintained under any other con.
dition than such as they and We pos
! sess. 1t is field as yet unexplored
2 in our Territory. Will not our Legls.
I. lature show its keen insight and pub.
! lic spiritedness in dealing generously
with our experiment station. II we
d urge upon 1t the necessity for the es
e tablishment OF plant-breedng gar,
% den in connect ion with the yaiuah hI,