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up and planted in cotton. Gay & Robinson have done it in the 
past year and are doing more of it this year. This is because 
they believe they can derive more profit from cotton than from 
sugar. Last year in March they planted 25 acres of land, until 
then for years in sugar, in cotton. The location is only a few 
hundred yards from Makaweli sugar mill. There was a rainfall 
in April but scarcely any rain since, yet without irrigation the 
cotton bushes are today eight feet high and heavily laden with 
pods. 
“Gay & Robinson have picked about two and a half tons of cot- 
ton from the field. They expect the trees will yield one ton to 
the acre at maturity. With Japanese women employed as pick- 
ers at forty cents a day, the cost has been less than one-half 
cent a pound. This is cheaper than cotton-picking in the South- 
ern States, yet with experience the Japanese women will prob- 
ably make a still lower record. 
“This year Gay & Robinson are going to plow up 30 acres 
more of sugar cane land and plant it in cotton.” 
COOPERATION. 
In the initial year of this magazine much advocacy was given 
to the cause of cooperation of fruit raisers of these islands. It 
was advocated as the one means of making the most both of the 
local and the mainland markets. Gooperation in the first place 
brings about methods of ])reparing the products so as to give the 
highest possible marketable value to them. On this score it es- 
tablishes a standard by which the fruits of a given district will 
have a selling name and fame. By cooperating in an extensive 
advertising campaign, the larger pineapple raisers and canners of 
Hawaii have created a name to conjure with, which can only be 
injured through the slackening of standards by any of the con- 
cerns exporting our pines. There will be no danger of this if 
the companies combining for publicity are bound to each other 
likewise for excellence of output. Then the individual brand 
will not matter — if it’s Hawaiian, enough said. Beyond this ad- 
vertising enterprise of the Llawaiian Pineapple Growers' Asso- 
ciation, there does not occur to mind any instance of the co- 
operation for market exploitation at that former period advo- 
cated. Since then a considerable number of homesteads have 
been taken up on these islands, and the variety of products raised 
on small farms here has been increased. 
For every staple that is likely to have a large production, there 
ought to be an association for the purpose of fixing export 
standards and systematically marketing the output. Gotton, to- 
bacco and rubber are articles that might properly be handled indi- 
