2 BULLETIN 48, HAWAII AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
The period of 1900-1909 was characterized by low prices obtaining 
on the mainland and by low transportation charges, conditions which 
served to induce the local importer to introduce swine and also to 
make competition impossible for the local producer. During this 
period a few venturesome ranchers improved their herds by the in- 
troduction of good breeding stock and new feeds, and there gradually 
grew up a fair-sized local swine industry. (Fig. 1.) The striking 
change which resulted in the rapid development and stabilization 
of the industry, however, was doubtless brought about (1) by the 
stimulus given local production when importers, sustaining heavy 
losses from hog cholera on board ship, became discouraged and 
ceased to introduce swine; and (2) by the advance in the mainland 
prices and transportation charges to such an extent that local swine 
raisers found it profitable to compete with the imported product. 
Fig. 1. — Old type of Hawaiian pig at right ; first cross with good sire at left. 
In recent years, heavy importations have been made of the choicest 
obtainable registered breeding stock of swine to grade up the island 
pigs. (Fig. 2.) The standard breeds represented include Berk- 
shires, Duroc-Jerseys, Hampshires, Tamworths, Poland-Chinas, and 
Chester Whites, the first four of which predominate. Comparatively 
few Poland-Chinas or white breeds have been imported within recent 
years, although many of the mixed breeds show unmistakable Poland- 
China blood lines, and occasional hogs are found showing Chester 
White characteristics, especially the white color. 
THE HOG'S CLAIM FOR FAVOR IN HAWAII. 
Swine multiply more rapidly, mature more quickly, and make 
greater gains on a given quantity of feed than do any other class of 
farm animals, with the possible exception of fowls. They consume 
not only all the by-products from the field, but from the kitchen as 
well. Probably no other class of animals can be so profitably handled 
