Report .of Fruit Growing and Truck 
Farming Commission. 
Pursuant to Joint Resolution No. 1 of the 1909 session of the 
Legislature of Hawaii, which provided for the appointment of a 
commission to investigate the possibilities and suggest means of 
improving fruit growing and truck farming in Hawaii, a study 
has been made of this subject and the present report is made to 
include the recommendations which seem wise along the line in 
question, 
AGRICULTURAL POSSIBILITIES IN HAWAII. 
While much difference in opinion prevails regarding the eco- 
nomic status of many lines of agriculture in Hawaii, there is and 
can be but little doubt as to the almost unlimited possibilities both 
in the variety of agricultural products and the season of maturing 
them in this Territory. Climatic conditions, on the whole, are 
exceedingly favorable. The range of temperature is very slight, 
not only from day to night, but from season to season; and the 
temperature which almost universally prevails is favorable for 
the growth of tropical crops, as well as for those of temperate 
climates. The immense variation in the rainfall in different parts 
of the Islands provides all the different degrees of moisture which 
are required for the favorable development of various crops. We 
have, for example, localities in which the rainfall is so very slight 
that sisal is about the only possible crop which promises success- 
ful cultivation. From this extreme of dryness, there are all pos- 
sible variations in the amount of moisture up to a rainfall of three 
or four hundred inches per year. The intensity of the heat na- 
turally varies considerably from sea-level to high altitudes on the 
mountains, where frosts occur in winter, and occasionally, even 
snow. While all of these facts are sufficiently familiar to the in- 
habitants of the Territory, their bearing on the possible extension 
and diversification of agriculture have not always been clearly 
realized. We have in Hawaii suitable climatic and soil conditions 
not only for sugar cane, rubber, bananas and other plants which 
require a high rainfall, but also for pineapples, mangoes, papaias, 
avocados, coffee, tobacco, corn, cotton, potatoes and other crops 
