The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-08-04
EVEN PEsSIMIsT
KELSEY SMILES
Pins Faith on Wilcox and Cook
ing Bananas Sees Some
Daylight Ahead.

Editor Advertiser My first pessi.
mistic letter Advertiser, September
Ire, 1917, speaking Of the almost uni
yersal failure Of Americans as small
[farners In Hawaii, stated nv opinion
that the success Of such people here
would depend ON governmental assist
anee and experiment. Both have. been
supplied 10 an unexpected extent No
one then imagined that the government
would 50 greatly extend experiment.,
add instruction, and (more Important
and wonderful Of alb act as commis-
sion merchant without commission; sell
ing, at It's own expense, the farmer s.
produce and giving the farmer the total
receipts
A government experiment station HAD
long been IN this arena, but at that
time Ursus took the bull BY the horns
and for three years has been twisting
its neck II really looks as though he
would throw the aurochs and release
the unconscious farmer, Lygia, from It's
back. Yes, unconscious farmer, for, as
a whole, he does not realize what Is
heing done for him.
Unexpectedly Great
4 ~ va b. II
The powerful help Doctor Wilcox and
his assistants are giving the farmer
is unexpectedly great, and his optiInis,
tie outlook seems justified. He thinks
that within a year the farmers viii be
sending the Marketing Division $l0,.
900 worth Of produce per month; that
a San Francisco branch will be neces.
sary, and Honolulu retail store, and
that ultimately each farming comma
nifty will organize comparatively with
q local business manager TO receive aud
ship produce and distribute returns.
/ Even now, ] think, farmers might
be ready for such cooperation at Hilo
but out this way farmers have not
"eaught on yet. They are mostly
II Portuguese and do not read English
/ hope that lPortuguese papers are
,lpreaehing Wilcox gospel TO them.
If farmers abont Kalona, Paanilc
and Kukaiau would organize. the Mar
lketing Division would soon instruct
them regarding things that could b
shipped out proftably, and thew wonld
soon need a shipping agent at Paauilo
II think not one Of them knows the
price and demand for jack beans.
Sometimes Optimistic.
Fessimist as I am regarding the all
Visibility Of tempting Coast farmers
here TO compete with Japanese, / come
| times have optimistic dreams and plar
air castles might build II my, iat
ears get worse and Davies & Co. Dffirei
me out. / never think of competing
} with KretzschmSr raising Strawberries
Mt twenty-five cents per quart to pa,
my fare to New Zealand, nor Of rnis
ling Easter lilies in olaa, but nigh
goat goats in Puma, as Dranga advises
or go to Waimea and raise corn an,
. hogs as a successful plantation manage
told me he would do If he were out D
a job; or raise peanuts that promis
payi or (if Mr.. Longley Is shipment D
pears in salt water turns out well
get ten acres near Kukaiau, where avo
cadps grow SO well, and plant an or
J chatd. OF course, the fruit hy will no
permit shipment Of fresh pears.
s Popoulu Bananas.
But ] have popoulu bananas on tn
brain. In 1908 grew a few in Hid
and people were so greedy for ther
they came themselves and picked ther
Cat night. Home demand is still
good; price now seventy-fve cents :
$1.25 per bunch in Honolulu. II PEI
son were quiet about it he might bull
up quite trade in them in Frisc
"nnbeknownst-likeD 10 the Unite
Fruit Company, who would kill any al
tempt to invade the market with Chi
nese or Bluefelds. That company nigh
not interfere with cooking bananas;
|, is very busy with over one hundrel
locomotives and over $500 ears gettin
7 bananas from Central Americas on owe
I 1000 miles of railroad and tramwav.
, also has Cuba and all those isands Il
look after, and every year il feeds sivt'
bananas each TO every man, woman an,
child in the United States and Alaska
As IL has made forty-eight per cent. OF
its capital stock since 1907, il probahl,
has capital enough to send steame
here if II wants to-
Doctor Wilcox saws: Hawaii i'm
ports annually products to the valu
: of $1,690,000, AL of which could b
produced in Hawaii at profit. y
thae my doots. We want man,
things that are grown more cheapl,
elsewhere; that we can import cheape
than we can produce. I have repeat
eddy ridieuled Mr.. Starrett s claim tina
we can produce 100000 worth of haI
ley per year cheaper than we can i'm
lport H. We cannot. and could not evel
with the railroad extended TO Waimoa
HBystander' speaks of my fsohs
for farmers failures. NV "sobs
! we're amply justified. ] mourned main
! iy for Americans that failed becaus
of untoward conditions; conditions tim
! have not vet been removed, but muc
. is being done to better them. Ku
, kaiau Store has never vet bought