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been organized, and as a consequence the retailers are becom- 
ing daily more impressed with the wisdom of treating bananas 
with care. 
When justice is done to it, the fruit has a peculiar fascina- 
tion for the great majority of people, and justice can only be 
done to it when it is eaten ripe. This is the point which banana 
eaters should bear in mind, and if they would only free them- 
selves from all prejudice in the matter of appearance, the con- 
sumption of the fruit in an unfit condition would quickly cease. 
— Exchange. 
THE SMALL FARM. 
"The feeling in Hawaii is almost universal that the founda- 
tion of her prosperity is the small farm." — Judge Hatch, Mo- 
honk Conference. 
A CHANCE FOR OUR RUBBER GROWERS. 
Honolulu. Hawaii, March 4, 1908. 
Editor Advertiser : The first International Rubber Exhibition ever held 
in Europe will take place from September 21st to September 26th, 1908, 
at the Royal Horticultural Hall, London. 
"The main object of the exhibition is to direct and compel public atten- 
tion to the enormous advances made by the rubber producer and manufac- 
turer during recent years. Extraordinary results beneficial to the entire 
rubber industry were achieved by the Ceylon Exhibition in 1906 and since 
that date many important inventions and improvements have been intro- 
duced. 
"This exhibition will give the first opportunity in the Old World of 
enabling planter, dealer and manufacturer to bring the results of their 
labor before the public and none of them can, in justice to their interests, 
neglect the chance of doing so. 
"The organizers of the exhibition are arranging for the delivery of 
illustrated lectures and addresses on rubber, its uses. etc. There will be an 
effort to secure entries of all the accessory apparatus used by rubber collec- 
tors or rubber planters, such as tapping knives, latex cups, collectors, trans- 
porters, sieves, pails, coagulators, coagulating agents, washing machines, 
presses, vacuum dryers, smoking apparatus, packing cases, pruning knives, 
sprayers, as well as machinery of every description required by planters : 
crude and prepared rubber of every description ; seeds, gutta-percha and 
other tropical gums ; and, in the manufacturing section, every class of rub- 
ber goods frofn boots and shoes to roofing compounds and India rubber 
substitutes." 
It is hoped that Hawaii will be able to send exhibits in many of these 
classes, and it would also be well for the Rubber Growers' Association to 
consider the matter of the attendance of some one or more of its mem- 
bership. Yours truly, 
JARED G. SMITH, 
- Special Agent in Charge. 
—Pacific Commercial Advertiser, March 6. 1908. 
