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ern States ; the yield of sugar is sure and large, seldom 

 less than 2,000 pounds, and in favored localities 8,000 

 and even 10,000 pounds to the acre is no unusual yield. 

 A fair average may be stated as 3,000 pounds of sugar 

 to the acre. This is not an annual yield, for the cane 

 requires generally eighteen months to mature. There 

 are thousands of acres on each of our islands still un- 

 cultivated, hut most admirably suited for cane ; and we 

 are within bounds when we say that within ten years, 

 if the requisite labor and capital were obtainable, our 

 annual product of sugar might be doubled. Indeed, 

 those who are best acquainted with the subject, main- 

 tain that the large island of Hawaii alone is capable of 

 producing as much as is now raised in the whole group. 



Respecting Coffee we may say that there is no more 

 delicious coffee in the world than that grown in Kona, 

 Hawaii, when properly cured. Most now gathered 

 grows wild in the woods, very little attention- being paid 

 to its systematic cultivation. When good sites are 

 secured coffee culture may become a safe and profitable 

 business. Travelers who come here from coffee grow- 

 ing countries are surprised at the quality and excellence 

 of our coffee. During 1874, an English gentleman 

 largely interested in Ceylon and its coffee trade, spent 

 some weeks on Hawaii examining the coffee districts, 

 and declared that Hawaii not only possessed finer coffee 

 lands but produced a far superior article to Ceylon. 



There is no product that promises so well for thia 

 group as coffee, provided elevated localities are chosen 

 for it. It is stated that on Hawaii the trees which 

 grow in the woods and at a certain height are not at- 

 tacked with blight, but are every year found loaded 



