The windward side of the Islands of Oahu and Kauai produces a great deal of rice, and this is one of the products which promises to increase largely.
The rice is said to be of excellent quality.
[Illustration: IMPLEMENTS.

_a_, Calabash for _poi_ .-- _b_, Calabash for fish .-- _c_, Water bottle .-- _d_, _Poi_ mallets .-- _e_, _Poi_ trough .-- _f_, Native bracelet .-- _g_, Fiddle .-- _h_, Flute .-- _i i_, Drums.] Kauai contained once the most important coffee-plantations; and the large sugar-plantation of Princeville at Hanalei was originally planted in coffee.

But this tree or shrub is so subject to the attacks of a leaf-blight that the culture has decreased.

Yet coffee grows wild in many of the valleys and hills, and here and there you find a small plantation of a few hundred trees which does well.

The coffee shrub thrives best in these Islands among the lava rock, where there seems scarcely any soil; and it must be sheltered from winds and also from the sun.