The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-08
EXPERIMENT STATION
TO Be LOCATED HERE

DIR. w. c. Stubs. the special agent
of the Department of Agriculture who
came down on the Australia last week
for the purpose of making arrange
ments for the establishment of an ag-
ricultural experiment station in the
Islands announced last evening that he
should recommend the locating of the
station on the island of Oahu near to
Honolulu
Il want to find a suitable site in the
immediate vicinity of Honolulu" said
DIR. Stubs last evening, $50 that the
station may be in easy reach of all who
come to the city. have been told that
there are fine locations on the Island OF
Hawaii for an experiment station but
think it best that it should be located
here and shall so recommend to the de-
partment. Probably after the one here
is well started other stations, branch
es of the one here will be located on
Hawaii, but for the present we shall
be content with one in Honolulu.
My instructions from the depart
ment were to investigate all the agri-
cultural conditions of the Islands and
particularly to find out what line of
work must be given the most atten-
tion here. But 1 find. on looking
| around that there really ought not to
be any specialization of the work here,
for everything needs attention. There
| must be systematic Investigations OF
the fruit. grain and forestry possibili-
ties here; the matter of raising vegera-
bles must be investigated; there must
| be experiments with the grasses, in
fact the whole gamut of possibilities ir
experiment and investigation ought tc
be run through.
Take fruits, for example. There are
certain varieties of peach that 1 thinl
could be grown here to advantage a.
the higher altitude; but they will hav,
to be brought here and then grown an(
regrown, by cutting slips from the frs
trees and replanting and again re
planting until we get tree that is &C
climated. SO with oranges. They grow
some oranges on Hawaii, understand
but they do not seem to have develop
ed the industry to any great extent
Then there is the raising of grain
Years ago they had hundreds of are
in wheat on Maui, but its cultivation
has been abandoned practically. An,
the forestry department will have t
be given some attention likewise.
81 met with the Hawaiian Planters
Association the other day to consu.
with them as to the matter of the sta
ton and l have another meeting wit
them tomorrow at which we hope :
arrive at some decision in regard to tn
station and its location. They hav
given me every assistance in my wor
as, indeed, every one with whom l nay
come in contact since have been her,
Il expect to be here several week
longer, during which time 7 shall Fl
upon location for the station, find gu
how much land is necessary we sha
need fifty or sixty acres at the nuise
expecD and decide on what IS ne ces
!. sary in the way of laboratories a.,
buildings. 1 shall also decide ho'
many officers it will be necessary I
employ and what their salaries ougs
to be, and these recommendation
shall transmit to Washington with III
r report"
DIR. Stubs expects to leave for IL
States again about the first week i
September. He will spend his entl
IA time on Oahu. in all likelihood, as /
x has so much work on hand that he vi
IS scarcely find time to visit the 9th,
q Islands.