THE JHAWAIIAN 
fORE5TER I AGRICULTURIST 
VoL. VII MARCH, 1910 No. 3 
COTTON GIVES GOOD PROMISE. 
From all appearances there is not one of the new industries 
set on foot in recent years which gives brighter promise of es- 
tablished success than cotton growing. In a recent interview, 
Dr. Wilcox, director of the Hawaii Experiment Station, gave 
out some facts regarding plantings of cotton upon different 
islands of the group, which are highly encouraging. Among 
other things he said : 
“At Dr. Raymond’s place on Maui about 100 acres have been 
planted to cotton. It is coming along finely and I feel certain 
will show highly satisfactory results. 
“On Kauai at the Gay and Robinson place 75 acres have been 
planted long enough to prove that cotton on a large scale can be 
made an exceedingly profitable crop in the Islands. It is all 
doing finely. The yield for the first pickings of Caravonica has 
turned out about 750 pounds of seed cotton, or 300 pounds of 
lint, to the acre. From now on the yield will increase with each 
season until the frees are fully matured. 
“I feel highly encouraged with results obtained thus far, and 
believe that before the present year is over we will be able to 
place before the public demonstrated facts concerning an in- 
dustry of the highest commercial importance in these Islands. 
“Our experiments have been slow for the reason that diffi- 
culties had to be overcome and some of the theories we are work- 
ing out are entirely new. However, the results promise to more 
than compensate for the time and expense of the experiments.”' 
In the same issue of the newspaper containing Dr. Wilcox’s 
remarks above quoted, there is another news story about cotton 
in which its writer, after making some observations on the possi- 
bility that “cotton may yet be king of Hawaii, usurping the place 
long held by sugar,” proceeds to say : 
“It has remained for the Island of Kauai to furnish the first 
instance of cotton supplanting sugar upon ground before occu- 
pied by sugar. Sugar cane land there has actually been plowed 
