Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-04-21
4 PARTNERS WINNING
/, I'm EAST HAWAII
lhlARf BUSlNESSLIKE
Dyirig Forbes and Tomoru Fu-
iiWara Keep Accurate Ac-
counts on Home Garden


Dyfrig Probes and Tamoru Full
a wara, joint winners OF first place in
the Home Garden Contest for East
Hawaii, have rated high in their gar
den work, in, their letters, drawings
and reports, from the opening OF the
competition. ..
~ They have also complied faithfully
with the Star-Bulletin's request that
contestants write to this paper, after
the contest closed, statement Of the
benefits derived and lessons learned.
In the following letter and statement
of accounts they have set good ex-
ample for other home gardeners. The
item OF keeping books" In business
like way Il worth attention In all the
schools OF the territory. Several other
contestants have done this.
Here IL the closing statement OF
these tro Hawaii boys:
Waiakea, Hilo, Hawaii.
April IL, 1917.
Editor Honolulu Star-BuIletin,
Sir. AS the competition for the
prizes offered by you for home gar
dens IS now closed. We wish to offer
you our finished report. In this en-
yelope We enclose plan OF our gar
den, as we'll as three kodak pictures
Of part Of our garden, and my partner
and myself at work.
We have copied our time roll from
our notebook and sent IL to you. We
charge our labor at 6 cents an hour
and ! think we have worked hard
enough for that rate per hour. In our
expense and income you can see that
our garden has not shown to be profit.
z able, but In a few weeks from now
We will be able to show much better
results for our work as our crops are
= now maturing.
We have about S2.25 worth of pea
nuts now almost ready to harvest, and
our lettuce and radlsh will soon be
Z fof sale. so that for the coming six
tRkS We viii have more income than
expense
- MyspAfmer and do not expect to
have full. pay for every hour We
vokh61 Dn our garden, as we have
: Ieafned a great deal since January /
rahputleeed sowing and the way plants
! fr6Wfhs fwell as to know that, unless !
the son Is rich, we do not need TO |
} slesD ect good, large and tender yege- |
tables. That learning, too, is worth |
some money, but just how much we |
cannot say. Then we had lots of fun |
catching the white butterfly who lays |
her eggs on some kinds of vegetables. |
We found that one butterfly could
leave eggs enough to keep Us hunting
for hours 20 catch the caterpiilars
from those eggs. 50 that each butter
lily caught was prize.
We enclose the report which our
vocational teacher. Mr.. Allen. gave us. |
This report we have filled up to last |
. Saturday the It'll OF April, for al !
though the Judges came to our garden |
on the S1st Of March we did not know |
five should finish our report to that |
: day, only. NY partner and have di-
Z vided up the work Of gardening as
Rellaas keeping the accounts
We intend to keep up our garden |
& 40 now as we are at war 1t will be !
better TO grow lettuce and potatoes
than to trust our getting them from !
California. OF course our garden
would not feed many people, but II s
all the boys OF 10 years or over had
!, q garden and could grow enough OF
green Vegetables for their homes,
think we would be helping to fight
The enemy as we'll as the soldiers or
sailors who may use guns In place OF
/. the hoesfTe use.-
Nc do not yet know II we will win
one, or your prizes. but we hope We.
WIN as tho judges said our garden
looked nice. II We do not get prize !,
this year. we know more about gar,
denine and are better prepared to try |
next. year, We also hope that We shall |
have .Fair" the coming year to show
I some OF our best vegetables In COM
petition with others We remain
Yours very truly
anYEp1C TT0RREC