The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-07-31
Annaa, Meeting of the r. HI. Ag. society.

Annual Meeting Offlc r. HI. Ag. Society
The Society met at the Court house at IL O'Clock
on Tuesday, July %, as by appointment.
The President read his report for the year, which
was full and interesting, and presented a great variety
of topics OF a practical character, bearing upon the
interests of the country.
The Treasurer's Report was read, by which it APP
peared that the Society had $4,000 invested, about
$500 on-hand, and that the amount Of $500 had
been stolen from the hands of the Treasurer, without
any clue to the theft. In view of the facts in relation
to the loss Of the money OF the Society, it was resolved
that Mr.. Williams be released from his responsibility
in this regard, and that uninvested funds in future be
deposited in some safe place, under the direction of
the Board Of Managers
Mr.. Wyllie read an interesting report on coffee,
and Dr. Frick read one on indigo.
The reading of the reports was suspended, and the
suggestions of the president, in relation to the suspen-
SION of annual fairs and the general expenditure Of
ful.-s for premiums, was discussed and various sug-
gestions made in regard to supplying plants and seeds
for The use of agriculturists, whereupon it was
RssoIcea, That the suggestions of the president in
relation to premiums and the annual exhibitions be
recommended to the Board of Managers, and that they
be empowered to carry out those views at their best
discretion.
The judges at the fair held yesterday were then
chosen, after which the following officers were elected.
President, JAMES f. B. MARSHALL.
Vice Presidents, B. PITMAN, -
Z. CUMINGs,
L. L. ToRBERT, Maui,
r. W. WooD, Oahu,
H. A. WIDEMANN, Kauai,
sc. DWIGHT, Molokai,
Corresponding Secretary, ". Hale6rand.
Recording Secretary, E.. O.. Hall.
Treasurer. Geo. Williams,
Executive Committee, j. II. HOOD, S. ": Cas-
tie. c. r. Bishop, Il. B. Bates, N. c.. .Nonsarrat.
Adjourned.
In the evening the Society met at j o'clock at the
Bethel to hear the address of DR.. W. Hillebrand.
Address.
Mr.. President,
AND GENTLEMEN OF THE Il. II. A. SOCIETY:
It has been customary at the anniversary meetings
of our society hitherto, to pronounce an unremitting
eulogy ON the calling which unites us here and from
which our society has borrowed its maine. Permit
me. for once, to strike in a different line and to abuse
it. To abuse it? [ hear you say; but then you are
kost OF place You ought not to have appeared here
ALLOW me to correct myself by saying, to abuse It's
abuse, 10 restrain it within it's proper limits.
What Is the object of agriculture? Why, to feed
and clothe man. 20 still his hunger and thirst. to pro-
tect him from cod and heat, from rain and wind. To
supply E:s wan I'D procure his ease, this s~elf-styled
Lord u Cre4Jior ,,oes 70 work without hesitation or
Scrupte. 10 te-El3dGf The features OF nature, which an
all loving i'royid mtg had arranged so as to offer
the mealfS t eSisteIc2 to every one of it's created
beings, from the iltl4blest moss and insect upwards
to the highest developed animal. As if there were
nothing ~drth, existing beside him, he xterminate
what does not administer to his wants or crafty his
senses. NcJse forests fall groaning under the relent-
less axe Of the pioneer, myrads of modest little plants
and weeds disappear under the b~urrowing edge OF
the pioughstare, to be replaced by a few kinds of So
clal grasses called cereals, and some other plants and
trees, from which he is accustomed to draw his susie
NICE The wrox and buffalo, the elk and dam re-
treat, 20 make room for the COW, The horse and sheep.
> fully Is he impressed with the propriety of his do
Angs, that eTen his language outlaws by the opprobri-
2 > epithets of weed and vermin, whatever poor being.
with ITS innate instinct fself preservation, interferes
Yltn theeaccomplshment Of his preconceived mission.
where before forest and glade, swamp, meadow, lake.
heath and river alternate, IN charming variety, now
appears the level monoto.1y of waving corn-felds or
uniform pasture ground. Swanps. are dried, lakes
drained, rivers narrowed 3 their beds; the noble for
est only finds a refuge on .ate inaccessible mountains.
and with them fee away finn rhe settlements of man
orAtsappear under his trayo ~ the lily of the fields,
the merry songsters of the wooels. 1t hardly appears
credible, and ywc IS true, tlllt through the vast extent
OF China prope.y save few aquatic plants, net one
herb is found Indigenous to the country, unless Gull
tivated by man. Such is the result of a few thousand