4 BULLETIN 48, HAWAII AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
600,000 pounds of fresh pork that can be marketed wholesale at about 
$200,000. It is understood, of course, that all garbage intended for 
feeding to hogs should consist only of refuse animal and vegetable 
matter which has been left over from the table, being free from all 
such injurious foreign articles as soap, sawdust, coffee grounds, 
broken glass, and oyster shells, and kept in rust-resisting metal cans 
that are water-tight and fly proof. 
ESTABLISHING THE SWINE PLANT. 
THE PERSON IN CHARGE. 
As is true of any other industry, the financial success of swine 
raising depends upon the person in charge. Unless he is deeply 
interested in his work, knows something of the animal and how to 
care for it, he is likely to waste a great deal of money and energy in 
unproductive experiments and ultimately fail in the venture. 
The swine raiser who either has land which he is ready to devote 
to the industry, or who has yet to select a location, should decide 
whether he will carry on the business as an independent and highly 
specialized project on a large or small scale, or whether he will 
make it secondary to other lines of farming, and formulate his plans 
accordingly. In the latter case, swine raising can be carried on ( 1 ) 
in connection with a dairy farm as a means of profitably disposing 
of skim milk, as is exemplified on a small scale by several dairy farms 
producing butter in the outlying districts of the Territory; (2) in 
connection with a highly diversified farm, such as the writer's at 
Haiku, Maui, in which the otherwise unsalable residues from truck 
and seed crops, starch manufacture, dairy, and other sources are con- 
verted into marketable products by feeding them to swine; and (3) 
as in the case of the Kemoo farm, where swine raising constitutes the 
main and a highly specialized line of farming, with dairying and 
poultry raising ranking next in importance. 
LOCATION. 
The location is of paramount importance and should be carefully 
selected. A business like that conducted at the Kemoo farm, where 
the main feed is garbage, should be located near a large city, even 
though land values are high. An enterprise such as that of the 
writer at Haiku might be profitably established on any of the 
islands, provided transportation facilities to the other islands are 
reasonably convenient. Transportation is a primary factor when 
the enterprise is concerned principally with the production of high- 
class breeding stock that is to be marketed throughout the islands 
rather than at some single point. Distance from market is a sec- 
ondary factor when animals are raised on an extensive scale on 
cheaply grown field crops and good native pastures. 
CLIMATE, SOIL, AND CONFORMATION OF LAND. 
Climatic conditions, lay of the land, and type of soil are also 
matters of much importance. Excessively rainy districts having 
poor drainage, as well as districts which are either exposed to high 
winds that prevail during the greater part of the year, or have such 
