The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-07-09

but cannot find that the pear tree is growing
islands, though think it must have been once
introduced.
MUsTARD.-Among the crops that will grow here
almost spontaneously and which might yield a fair
return the labor expended is mustard The late
VIM. French, in his palmy days, used to cultivate it
on Hawaii and ship the United States but with
what profit, if any, we have means of learning
1t is still to be found growing wild that island,
and yields very abundantly. The following which
we find in an American Agricultural paper may give
some information which may lead to its cultivation
here:
MUSTARD SEED.-We have recently purchased from
farmer of Ohio, part of his crop of brown mustard
seed, raised, as he informed US, 27 of good
rich land prepared with much care is usually
bestowed upon wheat land. The crop was well work
ed during the season, and when near ripe cut
with sickles, laid sheets wagon covers, hauled
to the barn in sheets, and there thrashed out and
famed.
He has delivered to part of the produce of 27
acres Of land IA barrels, containing 382 bushels of
brown mustard seed weighing 52t lbs. per bushels,
making 20 100 lbs, for which we paid him s cents
per h. making SOS, 90; and he has, he says 100
bushels Of tangs which he estimates will clean up
IS bushels say so lbs per bushel, making $3.50 lbs
at cents 10000.
Produce of u acres of brown mustard seed, ST.
9OS, 90, or $70,66 per
The time is not far distant, if not already at hand,
when the interests of farmers will be best promoted
by davoting portion of their time and land to the
raising of many crops which imported from
countries refusing Except when their crops fa)
the surplus of the American FARMS and thus not only
raise the price of their grain crops by diminishing
their quantity. but to themselves large
amount of money which is annually sent out of the
country purchase these crops mustard seed is
of them which be raised here to profit, and for
which, if the seed is delivered clean and in good
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certain.
How TO RAISE TATERs.-s' IF ye want good taters, :"
said Uncle Sim, "and good crop, this is the way to
git em Take an old pasture with thick sod, that's
got rich ITSELF let it be sound and poorly dry sile
vet none o. ye're gravity knolls and don't let crit
ter come it in the spring By the first o. June
the grass gifts well up, then put in the team; turn
furrer six inches deep, and one foot wide, over the
ning sod gee about to the eend O. the furrer, and
turn up another jest like the first, layn its edge
close along side ont, it turns TINS leaves
clean soddy ridge two foot wide. Mind and foller
arter the surface pow with a~SShsile plow, strrin'
up the airth six inches de-. ana TINS s. VIII grow
rich fHm the deXsy hoen' time, and be loose and
mellaH apizeyBe wanted then for hillin' up. Now,
in ssnter o. this ridge o. turned-up sod, about
was a tellin' ye, make holes three inches
deep and foot apart the whole length ont, with q
corner O. the hoe, without dsturbin' the sod, and
drop piece o. cut later; put over this pint o. air.
Stacked lime much charcoal, or uneached ashes
(the two first the surest tho, turn the raised
o. the hoe, and go The rank, green grass
turned in makes the sod rot jest about fast enough to
feed the CROWN aters; and that part over where the
furrers is turned, when the crop is dug in the fall,
will be as fine ash heap, and the whole field
will be well prepared for corn the next spring.
ssThe taters will only want one hoen'; and the
time to do this Isl jest afore the flowers is ready to
set Then run al pe-horse plow down and back each
row. turnin' the d3 to the taters. Now yell find
the benefit o. the b-silin'; for the way the rich
meller airth will tu5 up will be hootiful; and a
grandacious fact to al ght-seers. Yes, and to them
nothin' % 'cept what they ink they know themself;
but self-consate olous max man obSt) late Wall,
put in the hoes now and hilfS xell< and ye won't
find weed scarcely in the feld<ssr$ miner, nor n
spear o. grass, nor anything elsess 81 the thick
later vines coverin' the ground like Y deef luleep
mat Dig 'em up airly in the fall, and not specK
o. rotten later will ye find in hundreds and if the
season hasn't been very dry, what big ones they'll
roll out Heb And how smooth, and thin, aud
kinder shiny in their skins, and SO mealy to eat. -
FISH BREEDING.-At q late meeting of the Boston
Natural History Society, the committee to which the
subject of " encouraging and extending the various
their belief and conclusion that the various species of
fish, some of which now nearly extinct, may be
propagated arti6cially with entire success and profit
and that if properly developed the enterprise might
prove of great benefit to the community. DR.. Storer
submitted well-established facts in relation to
fish breeding which may prove interesting to some Of
our readers.
The obtaining of the ova, he says, is simple
affair." consisting merely in pressing the body of the
fish from the head towards the tall and collecting
the spawn in water, in common vessel: The
tents of the vessel should be put in motion OCCASION
ally to prevent the collection of parasitical growths
upon the eggs Freezing does always destroy
the eggs, and some kinds may be transmitted from
one pllce to another in dry state ready to be
matured The cost of raising one million of trout is
estimated Mt cost less than two hundred dollars.
The feasibility of artically propagating salmon and
trout has been proved in Frnnce and Scotland, ana
that of shad and aleviye4 IN Connecticut.
Dr. Storer alludd4 hkeNtse to the comparatively
small expense of bot6pf Reliminary experiments
Of tie business when established upon permanent
basis to the adaptation Of many of the waters of this
State to this purposes and to the advantages of
greater supply of sh % general health, aad in
reducing the prices Of meat q