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viclually. No doubt the Hawaiian Rubber Growers’ Associa- 
tion, already in vigorous existence, will in due time attend to all 
matters of grading and marketing of that promising staple. 
There was a coffee organization at one time, but too little has 
been heard of it in late years. Hawaiian coffee has an excellent 
reputation, but there is ground of fearing that it has been too 
much subordinated to the rank of an article for blending with 
other coffees. How far this may be the case with our coffee 
l)acked here under distinct brands it would be hard to say. If, 
however, the trade will have our coffee mainly as a blend, then it 
is important that it reach the blending houses in the best of 
quality and condition. 
For raw fruits of various kinds, which are subject to handling 
by merchants in that general line, one organiaztion ought to 
suffice for all. There would seem to be nothing among the possi- 
bilities of great expectations in Hawaii which has been more dis- 
appointing thus far than the raw fruit export. This should not 
have been so, for other countries within trading distance of the 
American market have made fruit spell prosperity. While the 
unsatisfactory transportation for this item has had much to do 
with the stalling of progress, there is no less certainty that the 
lack of organization to look after selection, packing, carrying and 
marketing has been the chief drawback. 
This is a subject that ought to be taken up collectively by the 
small farmers and homesteaders throughont the Territory. What 
has immediately suggested the foregoing remarks is a recent 
magazine article showing great benefits gained from cooperation, 
although not so well carried ont as might have been, by the 
grape growers of Michigan. 
Since the foregoing remarks were written, a series of articles 
on the subject of cooperation of our agriculturists, by Dr. Wil- 
cox, director of the Hawaii Experiment Station, have been 
printed in the Advertiser. Coming from such an authority, they 
are deemed highly appropriate for preservation in convenient 
form in these pages. Therefore they are reprinted in this num- 
ber of The Forester. 
An article on bee-keeping in Flawaii is promised for an early 
number by one of the most successful apiarists in the islands. 
It will be pleasing to people engaged in any branch of agricul- 
tural industry in this Territory to hear that the Hawaiian Poultry 
Association intends to make its next annual show a general ex- 
hibition of Flawaiian products. Flawaii is able to interest her own 
people and visitors in many things besides volcanoes, scenery, 
floral parades and high jinks. 
