The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-11-09
SAYS HAWAII WILL
ENTER THE UNION
As RICHEST STATE
Continued from Page 81

took up pineapple planting in Hawaii.
Today he owns the largest pineapple
field in the world. There are rows
of pines tn. ee miles long. With 9th
ers who have followed him into the
pine business he spends $4,000 year
making the Hawaiian fruit, in cans,
known to the American on the main
land. 1t was discovered that the
finest favored fruit in the world could
be grown in Hawaii and the pineapple
industry there is now only second to
sugar.
Recently lands thrown open to COM
munal settlement, on the island OF
Kauai, were cut up in five acre lots,
and the homesteader had actually to
live on his property-nor could he
ALLEVIATE it. One man with his family
could easily cultivate five acres of
pineapples, and nearly a hundred
houses sprung up. No Orientals were
employed and many of the colonists
found time to work on the big planta-
tion's cane field when not working the
home plot The plantation erected
cannery that paid the small farmer
S25. 90 ton for their pines, and in
fact financed them, as would bank,
through their various operations to
success.
On the island of Kauai through the
aid of big plantation the Government
has cut up 1900 acres into fifty farms
of 80 and 40 acres each, for actual set
tiers. Macadam roads have been
built through the settlement upon
which auto trucks run to the railway
IL miles away. And as there is no
malaria in Hawaii and no excessive
heat, there is every chance of another
great success.
Byron o. Clark, who helped intro
duce pineapple culture in Hawaii, has
taken up a piece of land on Oahu ISL
and. to which he has tIansplanted the
luxurious New Zealand flax plant he
set out long ago about his pineapple
homestead. Clark has demonstrated
that New Zealand fax grows luxurious
IY in Hawaii, but as yet there is no OF
ganization behind him. There are
hundreds of thousands of now useless
acres in Hawaii on swampy table lands
where this fax would grow wild. 1t
may be recorded that it has so en-
riched New Zealand that a law forDlds
the export of plant or seeds.
Sisal is only another story of every
thing neglected in Hawaii for the one
great crop-sugar Away off In the
corner OF sugar plantation where
nothing would grow but rocks-an en-
thusiastic employee secured permission
TO plant a few acres of sisal. That
was half decade ago. Today nun
dred of acres of what would otherwise
he waste land is planted in sisal and
a mill turns out fibre therefrom supe-
rior to the Yucatan product Ihert
are half a million acres of rainless
barren rocky land in Hawaii, nearly
every acre of which would produce q
crop of sisal, only the men to take Ut
and nlant the land are lacking. There
is SIS 900, 900 annually to be made ou'
of sisal planting in Hawaii, and thu
United States one consumes twice I'M
amount of the fibre every year.
Mrs. Annie Kearns, of jam factory
fame believes that women may MAKE
fortunes in Hawaii, raising chickens
pigeons, turkeys, geese, Belgian hare'
and frogs, establishing model diaries
preserving fruits raising fruits o.
flowers, keeping bees for honey, and II
a hundred other ways
| had ridden around the island o
Oahu in an auto and thought / knew
the country, but A. B. Leckenby, form
er Director of the Government Agrl
cultural stations west of the Rockies
came to Hawaii and assured me thaI
-. nntl,inn Of the horticultural pOssl