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aaa INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE. 55 CHAPTER V. INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE, There is room on the Hawaiian Islands for at least ten times its present population. Climate, soil and social ‘conditions all tend to make a desirable home tor those willing to work, who have energy and a moderate cap- ital to begin with. The soil of the islands is red or yellow. The red soil is generally considered good, and the yellow poor; cer- tain red soils are very fertile, while many yellow ones are sterile. Experience has proved to men engaged in agri- culture on the island that while areas of red land are very rich and fertile, there are still other red soils on which actually nothing will’'grow. Certain of the yellow soils when first cultivated will yteld good crops, but the source of fertility is short-lived. On the island of Hawaii are numerous sugar planta- tions. There are several hundred plantations where cof- fee is raised, and the owners range from the man who has two hundred thousand trees to him who has only an acre. _ At present there are thousands upon thousands of acres uncultivated, awaiting sturdy arms, and enterprising brains to develop them. Maui is a very fine island, and besides its sugar planta- ¢ tions has numerous coffee lands; especially in the eastern ny at, which are now being offered. Here also are farms . cComicbooks (eo) m