SWINE RAISING IN HAWAII. 6 
on a small scale in Hawaii, or is so especially adapted to the farmer 
having small capital. 
Although local ranchmen and large farmers can not raise swine on 
ranges as profitably as they can cattle, they are. nevertheless, endeav- 
oring to develop the swine industry on a large scale, and are follow- 
ing, though in a modified way. the system pursued by the Corn Belt 
farmers of the Middle West. This system is well exemplified on the 
Parker ranch, where corn is cheaply and extensively grown as a 
hog feed and it is more profitable to transport the hogs than the corn. 
Experiments conducted at. the Haiku substation on Maui showed 
that a variety of crops, including cassava, sweet potatoes, peanuts, 
velvet beans, cowpeas. and soy beans may be profitably hogged off, 
and that in the manufacture of starch from cassava the residue, 
either raw or cooked, can be made to form a large proportion of 
nutritious feed for swine. Cull beans and seeds of various kinds. 
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sugar cane and molasses, and the like, as well as slaughterhouse 
refuse when well cooked, were also found to form valuable by- 
products which can be utilized to better advantage with swine than 
with any other class of animals. When fed to swine, this otherwise 
waste product is converted into the highest-priced meat, pork bring- 
ing in the open market almost double the price of beef and mutton 
and closely approximating that of poultry. 
It is interesting to note that although land values are high on 
Oahu and comparatively little feed is grown there, fully half the 
total number of swine produced in the Territory is raised in and 
around Honolulu. Xot only does Honolulu consume more pork 
than all the rest of the Territory, but the military posts and hotels 
thereabout daily furnish 20 tons of nutritious feed in the form of 
garbage, which is sufficient to maintain and fatten approximately 
4.000 swine throughout the year. S«ch a herd is equivalent to 
