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with berries. There are tracts in Kula and Hamakua, 

 Bast Maui, where sufficient elevation is obtained, and 

 which may be found to be the proper location. So too 

 in Kona, Kau, Hamakua and Hilo, on Hawaii — there 

 are many good localities, possessing- sufficient moisture 

 and well protected from the winds, where coffee planta- 

 tions may be profitably located. These lands, when not 

 purchasable, can generally be leased at a fair annual 

 rental. Though stony, they are said to be all the bet- 

 ter on this account for coffee culture. We consider 

 this the most promising business that can be engaged 

 in by foreigners of small means. 



Rice also grows well, yields abundantly a fine grain, 

 considered equal to the best American rice. It will 

 grow anywhere that taro does, in the valleys or on the 

 uplands. Two crops a year have been raised, but the 

 amount and quality are better when bat one crop of 

 3,000 pounds of paddy are raised annually, turning out 

 2,000 pounds of No. 1 table rice per acre. 



Tobacco grows very rank on all the islands, and is 

 raised by the natives for their own use ; but owing to a 

 lack of knowledge in the proper mode of curing, it is 

 not raised for export. 



6. — Is field labor obtainable, and at what cost f 



Native labor has become quite scarce, and will be 

 more and more so each year. The pay of field hands 

 varies from 30 to 50 cents a day, or from $8 to $13 a 

 month of twenty-six days. Efforts are being made by 

 the government to introduce Chinese and Japanese la- 

 borers, and the. probability is that there will soon be no 

 scarcity in this respect. The wages of cooks and house 

 servants vary from five to three dollars a week. 



