The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-07-11
Agricultural Items.

Que Of the leading crops OF the
island OF Formosa is the oil bean.
Two kinds are cultivated. both be-
ing related 10 the sofa bean. To ex.
tract the oil the beaus are FIRST
crushed under q great stone wheel
ten feet in diameter, which il drawn
around by mules in a copcent rio
channel containing the beans. The
crushed beans are made into cake
with straw, aud the oil Is expressed
by very primitive appliances.
South Africa fruit now finds q
ready market in England, aud there
is every prospect that the cultiva.
ton Of choice fruits aud other gar
den produce at the Cape for the
supply OF European markets will
soon become an important industry.
Since the commencement of the
fruit season more than iOO tons Of
fruit hav. been shipped Ia England.
The condition Of tn. fruit on its ar.
rival has been very satisfactory to
exporters, and the prices on the
London market have been good.
The Swedish Government il very
liberal In encouraging the dairy in.
dusiry aud promoting dairy educa.
ton. Ia Sweden thcrc ar. NO fewer
than iifty.two girls being educated
nj public expense for dairy work.
OF these forty are boarded at co.
operativ. dairy factories under Gov.
eminent inspection, the others being
maint aimed at dairy schools IA free
pupils, One hundred dollars yearly
are allowed each pupil for board,
lodging and inst ruction. besides
which the pupil receives S2l a year
for clothes. The course Of instruc.
ton extends over period Of two
years.
The eminent Professor Mccall Of
Scotland, Ia n recent lecture on bO-
vino tuberculous, strongly urged in.
creased vigilance ia guarding against
infection OF the disease. Much more
risk to human life, hs stated, il Gu
tailed by the Us" al milk aud meat
Of animals Infected with tuberculosis
than from those affected by pleuro-
pneumonia. He expressed the be.
lief, however, that thorough cooking
destroyed the bacillus Of tubercu.
losis. He emphatically denounced
the sale OF milk from affected COWS
a. a means Of spreading the disease,
especially among infants.
During the past ten days Supsrin-
lsndent Shone has footed UP al
acreage Of sugar beets actually grow.
ing On the Chino ranch, and he in
forms us tina, there are nj present
just 1870 acres on which are q good
stand, There are enough more on
which there is u fair stand, and
which will b" cultivated, to bring
tho total up Ia 1000 acres, This is q
larger acreage than was harvested
last year, and there seems al present
Ia Ina an absolute certainty that tho
average yield per acre will be much
larger than that oi last year. The
estimated total tonnage ia placed at
close to, IL not fully $1,000 tons. 90
Chin" Enterprise, J"m I,
According To conclusions reached
by the agents Of the United States
Department Of Pathology. bees, in.
stead Of destroying fruit, as they are
sometimes accused, are the only
agents through which certain or.
chards ever bear fruit. Pears are
given special attention IN q recent
bulletin, aud among others the Bart
lett is pointed out "a -fscuudat-
ing and must be fertilized by pollen
carried from other trees by insects
The remedy suggested for non
bearing orchards is grating other
varieties Into occasional trees. There
are a few Bartlett pear orchards in
this valley, quite isolated from ut her
trees of any kind, and yet they hear
full crops every year.