Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-08
HAWAII PRODUCE
MAKING Big
Strides
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Report of Marketing Division
Will Show Increases from
SO to 200 per Cent

When the next report of the board
of immigration and labor is made the
produce grown on the Islands will be
shown TO have increased from fifty to
two hundred per cent. -. -. r..
This statement is made advisedly
by S. T. Starrett, superintendent of
the marketing division of the immi-
grafton board, after receiving encour-
aging news from the Islands where
produce culture has been introduced
Superintendent Starrett is engaged
in preparing his next report to be pre-
scented to the Governor June 80. and
considerable of the data which he
has already obtained will be used in
this report. H..
He declares that produce raising
here, which is in many respects an
innovation, is destined to be ranked
soon as one of the leading resources
of the Islands, and will ultimately
generate into an export trade of no
small value.
Within two years, or three years at
the most. virtually all the produce
used on the Islands will be home
grown, says the superintendent, and
within a few years more will find
its place in the eastern and western
markets at times of the year when
prices for produce are at their high
est. T.
Already the hardieaps which have
heretofore discouraged the raising of
garden truck are being removed,
which is evidenced by the large In
crease in the 1912 output
The discovery of the parasite which
is believed to prey IDon the fly pest
will be an inestimatable boom to both
fruit and produce culture. says Sup
erintendent Starrett. and its success
full introduction will eventually lead
to the ban being removed on all fruits
and vegetables.
Onions, eggplant and cucumbers
will show the most increase, while to-
matoes and celery will show a consid-
cradle growth.
when it becomes known to those
engaged in farming work that it is
possible to grow excellent produce
here, am certain they will take adj
vantage of the opportunity and use
every possible acre for garden truck.
1t is first necessary for them to learn
what particular product will grow best
on their land, and then how it is best
grown. 1t is the purpose of this divi-
sion assist them.
"The onions will show the largest
increase this year, and were are not
only meeting the local demand for
them, but in addition many crates are
being shipped. These should bring
fancy price in any market, as they
will arrive two months or more earl
Ter than the California or Texas ship
ments
when the ban is removed from
cucumbers, they also will bring eX-
ceptionally high prices doubt IL
there is any finer cucumber grown
in the world than those raised here.
They are unusually large and firm and
are ready for shipment at time of
year when it has been impossible to-
get them in mainland markets. If
we were allowed to ship this produce
now it would pay the grower from
$500 to 5000 an acre. The eggplant
would net similar profit.
There can be no question but
what the produce business here is in
its infancy. But within two years it
is safe to say the entire Islands will
be supplied with homegrown garden
truck
From the data presented to me so
far it appears that the output of pro-
duce will range from fifty to two hun
dred per cent more than it did last
year, as appear from my report. ] am
satisfied that in the succeeding year
the increase will be even as marked |
as during the present biennial year.