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scale in localities about the large tobacco plantations. But this 
main point comes up whenever you mention the production of 
these crops, and that is, where are we going to market it ? 
And when you take up the production of cotton or tobacco or 
of any other crops in which the freight problem is not very 
great, we still have to consider at once that if you get far away 
from a large outfit which is growing these things, you immedi- 
ately meet with difficulties in marketing that crop. A small 
man does not know how to market the product with the least 
expense. It costs too much to prepare it for market and trans- 
port it to the market. The homesteader can not deal alone with 
long-time crops, but must grow a crop to get returns from it 
immediately, and he cannot endure a delay. The one way in 
which these difficulties can be overcome at present is by being 
located near a large outfit which grows this crop and knows how 
to handle it. These people take it over from the homesteader at 
a reasonable price and that gives encouragement to the small 
man to locate about those centers. 
The market conditions here in the Territory at present, as I 
have already stated, are being studied very actively and as you 
have all doubtless heard, a proposition is now before us to at- 
tempt to encourage the production of crops which can be mar- 
keted in Honolulu by securing better market facilities here in 
Honolulu, as well as better shipping facilities, so that transporta- 
tion will not eat up all the profit there is in it. 
In additio4i to cotton and tobacco, which are really among the 
new possibilities of money crops here, there is an old one which, 
in one sense, I consider rather more important than either one 
of the two above mentioned, and that is bananas. It is more im- 
portant, I should say for the reason of its enormous tonnage, 
and immediately opens up the necessity of greater shipping 
facilities, which is what we most need at the present time. I 
scarcely need to say, being relatively a newcomer among the 
most of you, that the possibilities of banana growing have been 
demonstrated in numerous localities. The capacit}^ of the banana 
industry is limited only by the shipping facilities now offered. 
You know, probably, that about 15,000 bunches a month are 
shipped out of these Islands. You also probably know that the 
banana industry could be increased rapidly, particularly in Hilo, 
so rapidly, in fact, that we need have no hesitation except for the 
outlet. And I believe that it is a dependable and very conserva- 
tive estimate that inside of two years, if the proper boat facili- 
ties and marketing arrangements were made in the Territory of 
Hawaii, we could put out about 250,000 bunches a nionth. Now 
there is one very encouraging thing in this banana business; it 
is an industry that can be developed in a great many locations 
where there is nothing growing at present. Bananas flourish in 
a great variety of rainfall and a great variety of soils, and can 
be grown where it is so rough that horse cultivation is abso- 
