The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-05

| your sows and watch them with the
| eyes of an eXpectant grandparent but
| do not Damper them. See that they
| have clean water always, clean out the
/ pens before breakfast and after sup
! per if necessary look for vermin, and
| in another four months you may be
rewarded with one hundred little pork
| ers. Kamehameha would expect half
more and usually gets them. If you
are destined to become a swine-raiser
seventy-five per cent should reach ma
turity and at six months old average
$50 pounds live weight. Kamehameha
has done and is doing better. These
remaining seventy-five hogs of yours
should now be worth, say 9 cents a
pound as butcher stock, which makes
a total of $1012.50 for the lot after your
first 16 months operations. After your
sowS have rested two or three months
breed them again, and if you can see
YOUR way clear retain ten or twenty
of the choicest young SOW pigs to in
crease your breeding stock If you
are a good business man you will sell
your pigs to better advantage than
has been indicated. We are not bust
ness people at Kamehameha but we do
better than I have told you.
After the second season you ought ,
to get two filters a year from each |
SOW From this on you can figure the j
profits for yourself (on paper. 1t GER !
tainly seems easy enough to get rlch |
quick on such a scheme, doesn't II
And yet let me warn you, it isn't as /!
easy as it looks, Notwithstanding. Our
Hawaiian boys at Kamehameha do |
better proportionately than l told you
Won't you come out to the schools and
let us show you how?
So much for swine. The egg and
poultry proposition is perhaps even
more alluring to many people out
from nv observations greater Difficult
ties are in the way to successful poul-
trv raising than in almost any other
branch of stock raising. Suitable feed
is high in price. and large fiocks are
much more subject to disease here
than elsewhere. 1t is a business of
small detail TO the careful looking after
of which every one is not adapted.
Poultry raising requires comparative
" little capital. nor is the work at
tached of a hard manual character.
Thus is it we'll fitted for women. But
expel from your minds the thought
that it is an ideal employment for in
v
hundred times before poultry-culture,!
unless YOU can hire most of the work
done A few, yes, perhaps less than
the fingers on one hand have succeed
ed commercially, so far as [ can as
The rest only tell about their
doings However, don't fail to keep
a dozen hens to supply your home table
with fresh eggs and juicy roasters. If
these do we'll add another dozen, then
another until some day you may
emerge a full-fedged poultry baron
The most successful of California poul-
try men of whom I know made haste
slowly in the beginning.
The dairy products item is attractive
-s4OO 0OO of butter cheese and milk
(proba bly, condensed) shipped to Ha-
vail during ten months preceding oct
1905 small dairy farmer ought to De
satisfied with SO 600 gross income per
annum If so. here is an opportunity
for 40 enterprising dairy men to put
their skill against the fates of 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 aolI-
ity TO make small collections. 1 should
want for nothing better in an agricuI-
tural way Modern dairy farming IS
an intensive type of agriculture, ofer-
ing full play for the most dlVerSined
faculties And at the present prices OF
milk 90 to u 1-2 cents per quartz, ii
IS profitable 4 good milch COW under ]
proper management should net 500 per ,
annum. The record of Kamehameha :
Schools crack dairy COW. "Pua lima
4 full blood Jersey, for the twelve
months beginning April IS, 1902, and I
ending April l.. 1908. shows that she
produced SS43 pounds milk of 81 per !
cent butter fat in the S65 days. AT lV
cents per quart, s411 gross was realized