Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-14
CALAMITY in
ISLAND ONION
MARKET NEAR
Supt. LonqIey Of Marketing d.
vision Urues Public to Pat
ronize Home Industry

IF home consumers do mt patron.
ize home industry. there is going {.
be a calamity in the island cn:cn in
Gustry and market before Ions" 81 i
A. T Longlcy. superintendent OF the
Territorial Marketing Division today
1--WE want the people ri Honolulu TO
ask for lsland-groNu Bermuda Onions
when they buy this produces.
Mr., LOngley says tLAi the only fresh
onions in the market to-day are islam l.
grown onions. the rest Je.ng Old ones
from California. which have spent
Tuch time in cold storage Tie is.
land onions. he says, are miider an
sweeter than the ,,Lhers. and as
cheap or cheaper than the imported
product. At present the supply OF is
land-grown onions is exceeding the
demand. At the present time CalitOr-
Liza onions are bein,S supplied to the
army on contract, whore last year the
contract called for island onions
The army wants a large onion. and
this year the island onions are small,
due to insuffic ent rain" Says Long
month to get enough large onions to
supply the contract"
Pine Shipments Developing.
Mr.. Longley reports that several
men from the mainland have visited
the market during the last several
days to get information regarding the
shipment of Hawaiian pineapples as
far east as Cincinnati. Ohio. The
pines are wanted in carload lots, but
at a price a little too cheap, thinks
Mr.. Longley.
IF we can get pines to Chicago in
good condition." he says, and get for
them the price at which they are sell
ing Florida pineapples, We will be
able to make a big thing Cut Of the
shipment of fresh fruit from the is.
lands. The largest pines now being
sold in Chicago are quoted as weigh
ing about three and three-tenths
pounds, and are selling for 6R cents
pound wholesale. If We can snip
pines into Chicago now and get as
good results as in 1907, at VIII Oh time
experimental shipments were made,
there is no reason why the growers
could not make a great deal more
money that way than by selling theii
fruit to the canneries.
THE main trouble is that the pines
would have to be small to meet. the
demand for cheap fruit. All the Flo.
rida pines are small, many weighing
less than two pounds. Such pines
are practically thrown away in Ia'
vail"
Demand for Sweet Spuds.
The marketing d}~ision reports that
Medeira sweet potatoes are beng rails
ed on Kauai In larger quantities this
! car than ever before, and are meet
ing with good demand locally. They
are said to be far ahead OF the CG
binary island varieties ana are con
Sider9d 10y some as even better than
tue California MerceIS. The M21eiras
now are selling at $50 d hun irej
pounds While the co~mon sac; pc
la;o"a are bringing from - L. -
cents
Owing to the large shipment of
Ieanuts from Japan, island peanuts
are hard to sell at the present time. |
All local dealers have large stocks on
hand.
Mr.. Longley said today that as soon
as the division gets its proposed new
quarters in Maunakea street, and a
lager working fund, it intends to do |
more work in the Standardization OF |
products AS it now is, produce comes
in in all sorts OF containers, which de |
tracts from it's value