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on this island, was never so promising; yet, look at that region 

 today. From one side to the other and from the mountains 

 ahnost to the sea yon find only success and enthusiasm. Wai- 

 pouli and the neighborhood thereabouts is a newer homestead 

 region, but the people there are going about their plans w'ith fair 

 enthusiasm and, under average circumstances, their success is 

 reasonably assured. 



"The trouble at Kuiaha may be with the homesteaders them- 

 selves and not with the land, nor with the blights, nor the water, 

 nor the market. Practical farmers are essential to success in any 

 homesteading project, and, if Kuiaha has not had those, the 

 secret of the apparent failure of the enterprise is uncovered right 

 there. 



"At any rate, the matter should be investigated. The Terri- 

 tory should know just why homesteading is a failure at Kuiaha, 

 while proving all of a success at Kalaheo, for instance." 



In the first place Kuiaha has not yet "failed," and to many the 

 belief is daily growing that the future for this most favored dis- 

 trict is brighter than ever. And the coming success will be on a 

 much more substantial basis than pineapple culture alone could 

 ever promise. In the second place, the Kauai homesteads are 

 comparatively new. Their hope is based almost solely on pine- 

 apples. It is scarcely likely that they are growing them at a 

 profit, either, under prevailing prices, though their owners pos- 

 sibly don't know it yet. But they will when they come to bal- 

 ance up the returns of several crops with what they have spent. 



Pineapples will probably always play an important part in the 

 Kuiaha district ; but they will not be the sole dependence of the 

 homesteaders. It is extremely doubtful if any one crop proposi- 

 tion on an average-sized homestead lot will ever pay, Kauai's 

 evident belief to the contrary notwithstanding. But things have 

 already been done in the Kuihala district that apparently solves 

 this problem. There seems little doubt that Kuiaha will make 

 good — if not all the original would-be farmers, at least a part of 

 them, together with the newcomers who will take their places. 

 The fact that Kuiaha got bumped so promptly in the pineap])lc 

 game is probably a l)lessing in disguise, not only for the home- 

 steaders themselves, but for the future of diversified agriculture 

 in all Hawaii as well. — Maui News. 



NFJV rYPJiS Of TOBACCO. 



At the meeting of the Committee of Agricultural l^xpcrimciils 

 ^at I'eradcniya on May 13 and of the Ceylon Agricultural Society 

 at Kandy on May 25, sam])les of tobacco grow'n and prepared 

 at the government trial ground. Jaffna, by Mr. Scherffius, the 

 government tobacco exi)ert, were exhibited for the first time. 

 They comjjrise types of all the five general classes of tobacco, 

 namely — cigarette. I'ipe. chewing, cigar wrapper and cigar filler, 



