Identifier: reportonagricult95stub (find matches)
Title: Report on the agricultural resources and capabilities of Hawaii
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Stubbs, William Carter, 1846-1924 United States. Office of Experiment Stations
Subjects: Agriculture Hawaii
Publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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li LIVE STOCK. 67 This is seemingly a small quantity for the present population ofHawaii (154,000). Formerly cattle were so numerous in proportionto the population that many were slaughtered for their hides and tal-low. To-day the demand is so great that dressed carcasses are sellingto the slaughterhouse corporation at 12 cents per pound. The meat-eating population has increased, and the areas devoted to grazing con-siderably diminished. The plantation demands are furnished by theirimmediate localities. Frequently a plantation will raise its own cattleon lands unfit for sugar growing, and thus supply its hands with meat. Honolulu draws its supply from the other islands. The largeranches prevailing on every island, after supplying local demands, shiptheir surplus to this market. It will thus be seen that Honolulu isserved last and, as the supply of cattle is not keeping pace with theincreasing demand for meat, the time is not far distant when this citywill have to import its beef. The

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