Show DRIFTED ALONG IN OLD RUTS hawaiian farmers have let then their plantations run down NN W ashington it is the opinion of ex of the department of agriculture that that the people of hawaii have never fully realized the tile agricultural possibilities of their islands instead of going in for diversified crops and instead of scientific scientifically all studying and improving the old time staf staples files hawal ian farmers rs have drifted along in old ruts until they have been literally forced to abandon certain lines of pro because of their inability to keep pace with the rest of the world the production of coffee once a leading industry of hawaii is rapidly declining many coffee planters planter s being obliged to go out of business the coffee situation as sized up by the government scientists is typical of other agricultural pursuits in hawaii there are the natural resources cli ell mate soil and water which go io to make coffee raising a success but many of the farmers have permitted their plantations to run down they have failed to weed out plants of 1 in ferfer grade and substitute those of the highest grade disaster has been the logical result |