The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-23
FEDERAL BUREAU
WILL HELP BRING
SMALL FARMERS
Director Newell States American Farmers Are
Ready to Come to Hawaii and
Tells How to Get Them.

they are prepared to sell to settlers;
find out what government lands are
soon to be opened for settlement, and
be able to give the inquirer an idea
as to the price. Tell the inquirer what
he can raise and how to handle his
crop. There is no organization in the
Territory in better position to be
able to gather this information for
Lomesteaders than this committee.
GAS it is now, your producers are in
the same position as the first fruit
growers of California were a few years
ago. Each individual trying to man
age his own crops, trying to go against
the railroads and the commission
houses by himself, and there were
stories of robberies by the railroads,
overcharges and swindling by the COM
mission houses and failures amoug the
growers. Finally out of the confusion
arose an organization among the fruit
growers and others. They cooperated
with the railroads, had experts tell
them what was best to grow, learned
how to pack their fruit, were strong
enough to be able to tell the railroads
how they wanted their fruits handled,
and were able to assure the commission
dealers that certain fruits, packed in
the proper way, would arrive at regu-
lar times.
"You viii never be able to get the
small farmer here-the man we want
until we do some work along this line.
Take the way things are new. The
small man raises pines; some of them
rot or his hands for want of market,
others he sells at the canneries until
the market is glutted. What YOU want
to do is TO bring in an industrial agent
who will have it his business to tell
the fruit growers what to do and how
to do it.
"I will give you an example. In
Colorado, in the few scattered valleys,
the Rio Grande Railroad sent an expert
in to show the people what a potato
was. He explained to them what a
good potato was, how a big potato was
not salable, how little ones were not
worth much and how one with hole
in it was no good. The expert adver-
tised when he was coming and he had
many farmers to meet him. What is
the result? This year from those val
leys were sent our four thousand car
loads of potatoes, because the growers
knew what was wanted and the rail-
road had a market prepared for them.
The same can be done here with ba-
nanas, for instance. See that a mar
ket is open, see that you do not get
into the power of the United Fruit
Company or the Southern Pacific Rail
read and that they can not flood the
market and drive you out. They viii
unless you are a little smarter than
they are.
"'We can not get homesteaders here
until you have some such an organiza-
tion, and the Promotion Committee
VIII do it's best work in pushing for
ward any scheme to get an industrial
agent to work for the fruit-growers
mere and organize the business and the |
market The Promotion Committee |
night work up market through some |
company.
"The Seattle exposition Will afford |
in excellent chance of testing the |
Northern market When the visitors
eome to the exposition they will ask |
many questions They will ask: Can
get land in Hawaiia What will It
aise? Where is the marketR'
Continued on Page Ten.)