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in no way conflict or compete with the sisal industry. 

 Sisal is grown on soil too rough and too dry for any other 

 commercial crop, while Manila hemp requires a heavy 

 rainfall, of fairly uniform distribution. 



CORN. 



Corn has long been cultivated, as a stock feed and for 

 table purposes, in Hawaii. On the island of Maui there 

 are about 5,000 acres in one region devoted to the pro- 

 duction of corn. On Hawaii, at least one ranch is pro- 

 ducing corn on a large scale, and will soon have 1,000 

 acres in this crop. Corn thrives from sea level up to an 

 altitude of 5,000 feet. During the last season, on the 

 Parker Ranch, at an elevation of 4,700 feet, a yield of 

 forty bushels of corn per acre was obtained without irri- 

 gation, under a rainfall of only two inches. The quality 

 of dent corn produced here is all that could be desired. 

 Little attention has been given to the selection of seed 

 corn, and for this reason, the ears would not take prizes 

 in a corn exposition, but the percentage of kernel to cob 

 is high, and the yield is quite satisfactory. Nearly all 

 of the ranches are planning to raise corn in large quanti- 

 ties for the purpose of putting a finer finish on their beef, 

 mutton and pork, and in the production of poultry. 



PINEAPPLES. 



For many years before commercial pineapple growing 

 was established in Hawaii, a small native variety was 

 known of excellent flavor. This variety is probably not 

 indigenous, but is supposed by some to be a geographical 

 modification of the "Red Spanish" pineapple. The variety 

 almost exclusively grown at present is the "Smooth 

 Cayenne." This variety was first introduced in 1884, and 

 the pineapple industry began about 1890. There are now 

 4,500 acres in pineapples, chiefly on Oahu and Maui, but 

 also on all of the other islands; and the plantations are 

 -constantly increasing. The output for 1908 was 350,000 

 cases of canned fruit and 1,000 tons of fresh fruit. 



The altitudes most suitable for growing pineapples lie 

 between 500 and 1,200 feet. It is desirable to have a 

 rainfall of 35 to 60 inches or more. Pineapples will 

 stand ordinary winds very successfully. Planting dis- 

 tances on different plantations vary considerably, and for 

 this reason, the number of plants per acre ranges from 



