The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-09-20

ditions we find ourselves in" said
Motley.
,'You certainly don't mean that, Mr..
Motley said the Secretary. "You
mean YOU don't come ont aud change
conditions that you believe ought to
be changed. You merely think you are
being forced"
Eyes
GAS / understand il, the homestead
ers don't work on the plantations and
won't work there inquired the Sec.
rotary. "The most of them work on
the public roadsS'' Is that rightf'
~ cannot say most. They are work.
ing on the plantations and are work
ing on the ---'
"'You think those who are working
on the Plantations and on their own
home sites are coerced in casting their
votesf''
''I think SOL
Glow far do YOU think the people
lack faith in your ability or of men
hike yourself, that makes them vote for
somebody elsef"
al cannot answer that question. -
A Successful Homesteader.
Elmer X. Ellsworth, came here
about fourteen years ago from Wiscon.
sin, after serving in the volunteer
forces during the Spanish War. and
worked for seven years as machinist
on the Honolulu sugar Plantation, aft
EDWARDS going to Waialua plantation.
While there he learned of the Pupukea
homestead tract, which was opened to
white homesteaders. There were TWEEN
ty-one entrants, who secured tracts
ranging from eighty-fve to POI acres
All had received patents.
The homesteaders worked their own
lands, each man working out his own
salvation. Some of the lands have
been Joined to form pineapple corpor-
alton. There are four pineapple can
neries to which the homesteaders sell
their product, the bulk going to the
Hawaiian Pineapple Company, which
made favorable contracts. The pineap.
pie development there had been sue
cessful.
The Wahiawa Pioneer.
Byron o. Clark, regarded as one of
the foremost small farmers in the Isl
ands, who organized the Wahiawa set
10 Element association and was the pho
@ neer in pineapple development on o
large scale, has been here fifteen years
!; He came from California, where he haG
met with reverses. He told as how ht
- organized the Wahiawa settlement il
a 1900 first visiting the section in 1898
ID when it was supposed to be only pas
-, toral land.
= He said he was given authority Il
~ assist in dividing the Wahiawa trac
IN for the association members, who form
4. ed a close corporation. At first it die
n not yield as they had hoped. Pineap
III Piles were found to be the thing hes
suited for cultivation there, and sine
n then the development has been rapid
of He has latterIv engaged in the manu-
III facture of ''PIncetar," closely relat
ne ed to the cultivation of pines.
nv Wants Real Farmers.
ID DR.. Z. V. Wilcox, director of TIL
of United States Experiment Station i
Honolulu, who has been here four year
has closely studied all crops except tina
to of sugar, as the federal government
nd finding the planters were making the
ey own exhaustive experiments and inve
,et LEGATIONS of cane, have left that out {
,er the station IS curriculum. Is
or He believed the unit of homestea
mt ing was too small in Hawaii, and f,
ge the homesteading here there is needle
US, large sized men, not speaking in
re- pHNslCdl SeuSt. Tic Sdlu Ht WOulu IL
CO. dertake to pick out 100 acres in fort
W. or fifty places on the mainland al
gs. make more money than can be ma,
ar on any 100 acres of land in Hawa
He thought too much emphasis w
in placed here on "intensive farming.
ef- The real intensive farmers here we
Ire Chinese and Japanese.
icy He spoke of c. G. White of Haik
Mani nc of tho CT
cessful of the Intensive farmers"
Pile the white class, cultivating pinea
on Piles. He had many questions broug
ry. up before him every week of farme
icy on the mainland who say they ha
nd from $4,000 to $4,000 and want to COZ
cd here to invest He has told them
that they must come here and 10
yo- over the ground themselves. He
aid getting out a circular to cover su
icy inquiries.
er CALDER of Farmers.
oes He believed that certain phrase
an ogy here was hurtful to homesteadiI
They should not be called small far
CA ers, but farmers, and let each o
show whether he is %, 80 or 81 ca
uIe Der. He knew the struggles the &c
eo ernor had to contend with on this We
question. A small man is bound
slip by him now and then.
nan 1t is impossible to reproduce con
Nc s tions of the West here, first of all,
u0 cause of the very high expense
tached to farming in Hawaii as co
"a pared with that on the mainland. 7
;or figures given out here for cultivati
, ,In are enormously high as compared w
.ne those on the mainland. Somebody
Is told him there were but 1900 r.
''h' American voters in the Islands. Tn,
was some talk of having 1000 Anne
ans cans on the homestead lands. The II
IN now here would be a good leaven
~ the 1000 expected here. To dou
'ne the number of Americans engaged
IN farming would be a good thing
teu He said if he were asked pc
ON blank if he believed in homestead
on small areas he would say, No.
'ot- did not believe sufficient inducemei
could be made with forty acres as
nat basis. He believed more in 100 ac
iou as a basis for good farming.
OF When he first came here he u