The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-09
EGG DOlNGS IN HAWAII.
Pv T. Dixon Avery, Jr. in The Egg Reporter


In looking over some old papers last
night I found letter from Fred KIM
ball asking me to send him letter
once in while on things eggy'' down
here in the tropics.
AS probably you are well aware, IL
there is any place on earth where
things and people keep to the even
tenor OF their way. it is Honolulu ana
Hawaii Not that we are slow, like
Philadelphia, but we have no winter to
provide for and no summer to get
away from. Therefore. we do not nave
to hustle in the spring to get haf
years work done before the summer
season makes life unbearable, nor do
we have to hustle in the fall to get
through with work before the snow
puts a stop to operations.
In Hawaii it is late spring" all
the year round. Some suppose that it
is hot here. I lived. as you know, for
several years in Chicago, and / like
the climate there, both the summer
and the winter, but it has never been
as hot here as it is in Chicago every
summer, and / have been here eight
years and two days today. The Their
mometer never goes above 95 degrees,
and very rarely over 80 degrees. Nor
does it drop below so degrees at any
time. Nearly all the year it hangs
around the 70's, there usually not being
more than 10 degrees difference be-
tween midday and midnight tempera-
lures.
So, while we do not do as much in
three months as you do in the busy
season there we probably come pretty
close to doing about as much in
whole year as you do But We do not
make much fuss about it, and it does
not show on the surface.
All this applies to the egg business
as well as to others. The festive hen
lays right along summer and winter,
spring and fall. When she wants va
cation, she takes it, but the price of
eggs remains about the same the
whole year around-"six to eight for
a qua9ter'-instead of so much a
dozen.F
The difficulties which have beset the
raising of poultry here have had
good effect. This being a prosperous
country, the bugs prosper with the
rest of us. Ihere are no winters 10
either freeze the poor or kill the bugs.
So the islands abound with all sorts of
life. Not offensive life, for there are
no snakes or poisonous insects here,
but annoying life. I presume the Di-
vine Providence has invented cock
reaches and mosquitoes and the my
Rad pests that infect agriculture and
horticulture here for the express pur-
pose of keeping people from getting
lazy in the tropics. Everything grows
so easily here, even a mans income |
that if it were not for the bugs, phys |
ical and commercial, we would un-
doubtedly get lazy.
The application of this to poultry
culture has been the necessity of |
against diseases which are
known in the states but which winters
cold usually kills off there but does |
not here To guard against these dis |
eases requires more care than is some |
times given to the raising of fowls on |
the mainland. The result is that most |
everyone here who keeps chickens at |
all with the idea of getting any in |
come, even pin money, out of them |
Keeps good fowls, often highly blooded |
fowls. 1t requires no more care to take |
good care of good fowl than a COM
mon one, and there is a lot more sat |
isfaction in it,
The result is that the recent poultry |
snow was an eye-opeGer even to |
people themselves. The |
list of entries covered about 200 vari-
cites, and when the show opened they
mad to make room for late entries in