The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-10-29
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SMALL
FARMING HAS PAID AND SMALL
FARMERS ARE PROSPERINE

plies OF all kinds One OF them recent
" put in a sanitary butchers shop,
with cement floor and drains, costing
about Sl50n. Most of the homestcaders
have families of boys and girls now
coming Of age. One of them bought 4
parlor organ last week, aud one of his
daughters is learning TO play the same.
Have Bank Accounts.
The homesteaders' houses are fairly
well furnished, with pictures on tho
walls and rugs on the floor. Without
exception thew all have flower and
vegetable gardens around their houses.
One of the homesteaders, TO my knowl-
edge has bank account of from $4,000
to $4,000; several others have bank ac-
counts. Being located so far from Hilo,
several of them have brought me their
money to deposit for them. Within the
past year one of the homesteaders
| brought me $500 to deposit in the bank
and another brought me $780,
| The bank deposits do not, by any
means, represent all the spare cash
owned by these people, as they are of
class not used to depositing in banks
and most of them have their cash in
hand, and some of them have their
money invested, out on mortgage and in
other ways.
Sons Who Want Land
There are about twenty of the sons
of these homesteaders who have become
or are about to become of age, who
have up to the present time been work
ing on their fathers homesteads most
of the time, and part of the time for
cash for adjacent employers. To my
personal knowledge every one of these
young men is DESTROYS of taking up q
homestead, if government land can be
opened near here of fit character for
homesteading and if the area is large
enough to make it worth while. Suct
size / consider to be not less thar
thirty acres, and consider forty acres
not any too large,
There Is Land Available.
The land lying on the south side o.
Laupahoehoe gulch and extending t.
the Kihalani homesteads is of the char
acter which these men will take, and
in good faith, occupy and cultivate a
, homesteaders. There is no reason t.
believe that they will not be as sue
cessful as their parents have been a
Waipunalei.
If anybody wishes to verify my state
ments, | shall be very glad to go owe
the matter in detail and go PERSONAL
with them to see the homesteads an
the homesteaders.
Some Items of Income.
The chief single item of income o
, the individual homesteaders is cant
which they sell to the plantation; SCI
, ond, is coffee; but all of them suppl,
= ment these by producing corn. tar,
a vegetables and other farm produce, 9
a well as cattle, pigs, horses and peultr.
= One of them sold his 1911 crop of co.
= fee to me for $3.50. / figured with hil
. last week as to the value of his 191
crop of coffee and we estimated it &
= 1925. He told me that he was maxim
a such good profit out of his coffee thu
o he was going to plant two acres MOI
in coffee this year and ten acres MOI
!. next year.
They have local cash market fl
!. all the pigs, cattle and poultry the
q can produce. Eggs sell from forty
fifty cents per dozen. One of them tol
me last week that he had taken
$3.50 for pigs which he had raised du
e ing the past year, and that he was no
l, taking in about 800 per month fl
IS eggs, and he has not nearly as man
o chickens as some of them.
>, Homesteading Success.
'. Whatever may have been the resu
W of homesteading in other portions
# the island, and admit there have bee
a many failures, I know of my oW
IL knowledge that it has been a succe
d at Waipunalei, and 1 am positive tn
70 it will be like success if the san
II class of people are permitted to HON
20 stead the similar lands lying on the o
posite side of the Laupahoehoe gulch.