In many parts they are so poorly supplied with water that they can not carry much stock.

They also are often astonishingly broken up, for they frequently lie high up on the sides of the mountains, and in many parts they are rocky and lava-covered beyond belief.

On Hawaii, the largest island, lava covers and makes desolate hundreds of thousands of acres, and on the other and smaller islands, except, perhaps, Kauai, there is corresponding desolation.

Thus the area of grazing lands is less than one would think.

But on the other hand, cattle are very cheaply raised.