Show COTTON MAY BECOME I AN HAW HAWAIIAN STAPLE HONOLULU Cotton Hawaii Cotton otton promises promises prom prom- to be one of t the b staples in in the thea a agricultural development of Hawaii There are seventy ec acres of experimental plantings s and the rr results are arc satisfactory tory Dr Wilcox who has char charge e of the tho United States experiment station here has sent samples to the cotton experts in the tho south as well as to those in Bremen Two grades rades of cotton cotton cotton cot cot- ton are arc bein being cultivated and one tho the seems to puzzle the sea soa island cotton experts in securing a a. rat rat- ing Quotations varying from fourteen to twenty seven even cents a pound have been received ed for this grade and as bi high b as thirty six cents a pound is quoted by the experts in Bremen for forsea forsea fortieS sea tieS island Short fiber tiber cotton can be grown rown in great quantities but it would not pay tell ell on account of freight ht rates to the eastern seaboard The pr present nt area planted to cotton is 8 only seventy acres bu but this will be bo increased next season One uno man is ready to plant five dye hundred acres of his land but is is advised sod not to on account of the scarcity ity of s seed As fast as itcan itcan it itean can ean be procured he will ill plant and within within within with with- in a year vear several hundred acres of sea island cotton will win be picked Arran Arrangements will be made for shipping shipping ship ship- pin ping in five fi hundred pound bales via IS ape Horn to New York Last year tar Colonel Duke a cotton planter of or orAr Arkansas Ar Ar- Arkansas kansas inspected some of or the cotton growing in the vicinity of Honolulu and pronounced it better than anything he had pad ever seen HIen in the south He lie said it would be worth not less Ie than five fie times timet as much as that which he be rai raised ed edon I I on his plantation |