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by phenomenal records of individual cows. We have also 
claimed that the value of a single cow should be determined by 
what she will yield for a year rather than for a week or a month, 
since she must be cared for and fed for the whole year, and only 
on that basis can her profit be determined." 
The animals admitted to advanced registry are five in the two 
year old form, four in the three year old form, two in the four 
year old form and fifteen mature, and their averages respectively 
are as follows : 
Lbs. milk Lbs. fat Lbs. butter % fat 
Two vear old class 7,454 296.60 346 4.11 
Three year old class 9,663 386.62 451 4.07 
Four vear old class 8,613 356.57 416 4.27 
Mature cow class 10,186 377.60 440 3.77 
Whole, cows and heifers.. 8,979 354.35 413 4.05 
Mr. S. T. Starrett, the market superintendent appointed under 
the legislation of 1911 to promote the prosperity of homesteaders, 
is diligently pursuing his duties. Lie is visiting one district after 
another throughout the islands, taking note of the products most 
adaptable to profitable raising in every locality visited. Thus far 
his general advice has been communicated for the most part in- 
formally through the newspaper press, but he gives instruction 
personally, meanwhile, to the homestead cultivators as he passes 
through the country. When he has thoroughly covered his field 
work, Mr. Starrett will no doubt sum up his findings with rec- 
ommendations in form to serve as a foundation for scientific 
development of diversified agriculture in this Territory. Hereto- 
fore this great cause has been advanced in a practical way wholly 
upon a basis of any man for himself. With a trained expert 
now at the directing lielm, let us hope for cooperative effort and 
system, both in cultivating and marketing such products of the 
soil as are in constant need here and for which a demand can 
easily be created, Vy'diere not already existing, in all the accessible 
markets outside. The trade returns show many natural products 
imported, at an aggregate cost of millions of dollars annually, 
which might certainly be raised in these islands. There are 
equally as many articles, peculiarly Hawaii's to produce, for 
which an unfailing demand obtains abroad. Let us buy less and 
sell more of what our climate and soil can abundantly yield. 
That is the way to bring about a more general diffusion of pros- 
perity among the population of the Territory, as well as to gain 
and keep more population among which to have the prosperity 
diffused. 
