Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-09-28
MONTPELIER, VERMONT, TIL URsDAY,

to be blasted in single night by a smaller but
more terrible foe. This is tiny white insect,
so small as to be hardly visible, which settles on
the field in cloud as it were, and just as the
corn begins to silk, and the heart OF the hus-
bandman gladdens with hope OF an abundant
harvest, the green field turns brown, withcrs
and dies The best corn is raised at Wailua on
this island {Gahu,) and finer meal than is made
of it at the new FIGURING Mil was never eaten.
The kind generally planted is the yellow corn of
from eight to sixteen rows Several new varie-
ties were introduced by the Society last year,
and scattered on the different islands, but have
had no reI ort of them" Thrs far Judge Lee
on corn-raising. hope more favorable report
will be made ere long, especially. from Maui.
WHEAT .AIn speaking Of this prince of grains
allow me to make a quotation from the Friend,
IL Journal edited by Rev. S. G. Damon, Seamen's
Chaplain at Honolulu. After speaking Of his
incredulity on the subject Of wheat-raising up
to the present year, he says: "lhe orignators
and promoters Of wheat-raising and Of Steam
Mills are deserving of all praise. May they OBJ
tain immediate profit, and the thanks OF ros-
tcrity 1t has been said sometimes that the
American Missionaries were not so forward as
they should have been in promoting Hawaiian
Agriculture. Most certainly the Rev. j. S.
Green, Of East Maui, will not come in for any
share of this censure, 50 far as relates to wheat
growing; neither will the Rev Mr.. Emerson,
Of Waialua Oahu, so far us relates to corn
growing. Both have battled molly with the
worms, the elements and public sentiment. No
words can fully express our strong desire to wit
ness the SUCCESS Of every description Of agricul-
turc on the Islands, but especially that of wheat
and corn-growing"
Judge Lee says, in lis address at the annual
meeting: Therapid increase of wheat-raising
daring the past year has been such as to mark a
new era in the history of the Islands. There
has been sown in the region of Makawao, East
Maui, during the last year, some ECO acres of
this valuable grain, and thongh about 200 acres
OF it mas been cut down by the pelua or the cut
worm, it is estimated that the remaining 900
will yield at least %, 600 bushcls Of beautiful
wheat, or an average Of twenty-five bushels per
acre. This, it is said, will make more than
5000 barrels of flour, OF more than enough for
our home CONSUMPTION.
In early days OF whcat-rasing, VIXEN it was
raised by the peck and busicl, the lava rocks
were Used asa threshing machine, and tie mouth
for IA tanning mill bat 10 the Yankee has
come with his roaIing machine, Lis horse power
and his steam mil, and he will wake up the
slumbering soil cause the fields to rejoice with
beauty gather in his harvest and dis dimes
and give rs II nty Of sweet bread and to spare.
am tr,ly happy in being able to say that
tie people o. MakAwaa and vicinity arc waking
up to the Importance OF raising wheat. One
ofthem raised lSG bushels last year from BUSH
els sowing. This year he has about 10 acres,
which will probably yield nearly or qaito l,0CO
bushels. Others have Is, and 10, am acres,
down to 3 and acres 50 that they soell l:.jrly
committed to the work Of growing wheat How
mach qualification the fact that the llawaans
are engaging in this business affords me, can
not express. The hope Of inducing them to do
so has choered me from year to year, amid the
toll and vexation and loss Of raising this grain.
Ills nearly ten years since | begun to SOW and
reap, but till 1885 my wheat WAS anything but
remunerativc, have had god and sweet flour
for my own US, and lis las 11on great COM
fort.
We are now in the midst Of wheat harvest
Onr early wheat WAS ready for the reaper the
cradle and the sickle about June lst That
month and the first part of this proved uncom-
monty rainy, 50 that some part OF the grain was
injured, and much of the crop is somewhat in
terior to the crop of last year. The -four is not
50 white.
"Not the least among the wonders Of the
day." says Judge Lee, lis the new sseaming
loaring mill, recently erected in Honolulu, by
that enterprising association, the Hawaiian
Flouring Company, and to which we look the
coming year for orr bread. This mill, the en-
CINE and machinery, is the work of three worthy
and ingenious Down Casters, who do.every thing
upon honor, and " ho are real blessing to the
islands"
In addition to the three grains above enumer-
atcd, oats and barley flourish well. Coffee grows
(, luxuriantly, and is Of a most excellent quality
Of sugar need say nothing, as you know that
the sugar cane is indigenous to the islands, and
, sugar and syrup are largely exported. Garden
vegetables would do well but for the cut worm
f at present melons and squashes are easily ant
abundantly raised.
Of fruits we have not II great variety Ba
nanas and the ohia, or Hawaiian apple, are al
most all the fruits strictly indigenous Figs
grapes, oranges, tamarinds, pine apples, ane
mangoes are becoming plenty, and lately peach
rs are doing well. Other fruits are being intro
duced, and Hawaii will, doubt not, become
fruit-growing country. You can scarcely con
ceive how striking the change in regard to fruit,
and vegetables, has been here since my arriva
at the islands in the spring of 1928. In eli
mate SO delightful, and with SO many of thu
= boanties of a kind Providence, we need onl,
hearts Of gratitude to be as happy as we can ex
pect to be in this world.
+ Ida not hear much said of late on the subjec
of annexation of the islands to the Unitet
States. presume, however, it is not forgotten
and it may soon be agitated with more zeal thar
ever, there being many of the fllibustcrinl
stamp, and many Others who would be glad tt
8 have the government frightened into annexation
Still, unless the French shall make us trouble,
don't think We shall be annexed this year no
next. The English and French haveseyen ship