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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-24
POTTER IS
HOME AGAIN
Tells of the Hawaiian
Exhibit at Paris.
MUCH INTEREST shown
Part Of the Material Sent to the
Philadelphia Commercial
Museum.

George G. Potter, secretary of the
Hawaiian Commission to the Paris Elk
position. returned to Honolulu yes:er-
day on the Rio after an absence of
about eight months at the French capt.
tai. The Major expressed himself
after enduring such rough voyage as
he experienced aboard the Rio. Every
day from the time the vessel lef. San
Francisco until Saturday the boat
plunged, rolled and cavorted in the
storm-swept ocean. In fact Potter had
a rough trip after leaving England on
the Deutschland. This monster grey
hound of the Atlantic was struck by a
hurricane which the commander said
was the worst he had ever experienced
in his sea-going life.
AS to the exhibit of Hawaii nei at
the Paris Exposition, Major Potter said
that, small as it was. it attracted wide
spread attention and the amount of in
formation disseminated, if judged by
the number of inquiries. was sufficient
to create much interest in Hawaii
among the Europeans. Many of them
had never heard of the Islands and the
dots had To be pointed out to them on
the map.
Everybody evinced a great deal of
interest in everything we had to show.
There was one very unfortunate cir
cumstance connected with the display
of Hawai's products and that was
their lateness i'm being installed. BY
the time they were in place the
awarding juries had made their rounds
and Hawaii was cut out of awards
which certainly belonged to her prod
ucts.
Before I left Paris had everything
that is to be brought back to Hawaii
sent to Bremen to the Pflugers and by
them ii will be shipped home around
the Horn.
"a great deal of the stuff was given
to the Philadelphia Commercial Muse
um and will be installed in the building
In a room to be called the Hawaiian
room. Mr.. Wilson, the director of the
Museum. was very anxious to take any
thing I could spare. All our fruits and
Jared stuff was given to him. The
exhibit in Philadelphia will be one OF
the greatest advertising booms the Is
lands have ever had and the business
community should look to il as a medi.
um through which to disseminate
knowledge of the resources of the Is
lands"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-24
Fig Saturday Night

>. waters house on Thurston ave-
nue.. corner Green street, was in great
danger from fire Saturday evening
when hasty alarm was rung in bnt
the firemen extinguished the flames
IN very short time after arriving on
the scene. The real trouble then lay
with the main, owing to the valve
gate breaking. The trenches Of the
Transit Company contained two
zee water, and the steam roller
for awhile. was enveloped in water. Nc
harm was done.
Middletown transcript., 1900-04-28

In root grating apples rne scIons are
cut in fall. winter or any time before
the buds swell in spring. Describing
the operation. writer in American
Gardening says: One-year-old seedlings
are generally employed for stocks, but
sometimes larger roots are used, being
cut in pieces four or five inches long
and scion set in each piece. Roots are
usually "ton@ue' or whip grated, the
stock being cUt at or just below the
surface of the ground. Cut both stock
and scion alike with a sharp knife, max
ing a good. smooth, even surface. Then
put the two parts together, taking
great care that the inner bark or cam
blum of the scion comes in direct con
tact with the inner bark of the root.
and tie with raffia 10 hold in place.
Such a graft made by an experienced
workman need not be waxed, but the
beginner will probably succeed better
if each graft is covered with wax. In
large nurseries root grating is done
during the winter months. The young
seedlings are dug, the scions cut and
both put into the cellar, where they are
kept cool and moist. They are then
taken to well lighted workroom, root
grated. and are planted out in nursery
rows the following spring.
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LEyELER AND cLoD CRUsHER.

holes in the rear plank are for attach
ing short pieces of heavy chain, which
will mark sufficiently plain for either
corn or potato planting.
The foregoing is described in the
Ohio Farmer, in which a correspondent
also tells of a good shield for cult-
vator. He says:
In cultivating corn when it Is small,
1t requires the greatest care not to COW
er up or roll hard Jumps of dirt on the
tender sprouts. The shields that come
with cultivators are very uncertain and
unsatisfactory in their work. For sew
eral years we have tried this trough
and find it a most satisfactory device.
Take two hard wood inch boards eight
inches wide and about five feet long
and fashion the forward end of each
in the shape of a sleigh runner. Then
take 2 by 4 the same length as
the boards and bevel the edges in such
q way that when the boards are nailed
on they will spread out at the bottom
until they are about eight inches apart.
This trough is to pass, inverted, over
the corn row between the shovels of
the cultivator, its sloping sides catch
ing the loose soil and leaving it lying
loosely next the corn, but never on it.
To fasten this trough to the cultivator,
bore an inch hole through the sides
near the front end and just beneath
the top 2 by 4. Through these run
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Thfnga Tint Are Told.

The cranberry is one of the crops
which the census bureau will investi
gate by means of special schedules dis
tributed only in the localities in which
the crop referred to is grown. The in
quiries endeavor to distinguish be
tween the area of natural and of plant
ed vines and to bring out indications OF
the future of the industry.
Connecticut tobacco growers will
make hay while the Sun of good prices
shines by planting large acreage the
coming season.
1t is expected that school of applied
agriculture and horticulture will soon
be established on & 200 acre farm about
33 miles from New York city. Both
men and women will be received as
students, and the tuition fee will be
small. The course is to include both
special and elementary scientific in
struction, practical work in the field
and in the planting and care of or
chards, small fruits, market garden
vegetables, greenhouse culture, dairy
work and poultry raising.
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APPLE TREE ANTHRAcNosE.

believes that they are entirely distinct
and the anthracnose a new disease
Apple tree anthracnose is caused by 6
fungus which attacks the bark, usually
on the smaller branches, appearing
first after autumn rains. 1t roughens
disfigures and weakens the branches
1t generally occurs as spot from
which tile bark sloughs off, but occa-
sionally girdles branch and thus kills
a portion of it.
Thorough spraying with bordeaux
mixture or with the ammoniacal solu-
tion of copper carbonate, once soon aft
er the fall rains begin and again as
soon after the leaves fall as possible is
recommended as remedial, and this
may be supplemented in orchards but
little diseased by cutting out anthrac-
nosed spots and painting the cuts witt:
strong bordeaux.
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A Move on Melons.

Melon and cucumber plants may be
started in hotbeds or greenhouses and
the season of maturity advanced sew
eral weeks. The seeds are sown on in
verted sods six or eight weeks previous
to planting cut time, half dozen seeds
in a place, eight to ten inches apart.
When settled warm weather has ar
rived, cut the sods in squares and
transplant in the field. By this means
we not only advance the season of ma
turity, but we also head off to great
extent the numerous insect tribes that
feast on our melon and cucumber vines
in their early stages.-Rural New
Yorker
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STRAWBERRY VARIETIES.

certain rainfall and the light, loose
character of the soil permit successful
late summer or early fall planting,
ranging from July to October, accord
ing to Professor Hugh Starnes of Geor-
gia, from whose interesting cultural
directions the following notes on trans
planting are made. Being intended for
a particular locality they should be re-
garded as more or less elastic for other
sections:
Only the amateur, growing on a
small scale or regardless of expense,
can afford to use potted plants. Much
less expensive is the use Of one of the
improved hand transplanters. With
these transplanters, setting may pro-
ceed at almost any time during the
growing season as safely as with pot
ted plants. One transplanter consists Of
an "excavator," with which the holes
for the reception of the plants are
made; a "transplanter," which is a
small zinc cup, in which the plant is
taken up and conveyed to the field, and
an "ejector," having slotted disk at
the end for the accommodation of the
crown of the plant, by which the plant
is expelled after the cup has been
placed in the hole. One hundred extra
cups will enable the operator to take
wagon load at one time from the old
plat to the new.
No two planters ever agree as to the
best mechanical routine in transplant
ing or the best implements to use. The
following plan, however, has been
found effective and expeditions: Secure
the plants for resetting by using
spade, or, better, a spading fork, and
loosen the entire row. Take up, throw
out the old plants, which are worthless,
separate and bunch up in convenient
handfuls, trimming off the remains of
runners and dead tops and shortening
in the roots one-third. Place in buck
cts, with an inch or so of water to keep
the roots moist. Standing thus day
or two will not hurt.
In putting out the plants a man with
spade or any form of trowel, should
precede a boy with the plants in
bucket. Let the fork be inserted in
the ground crosswise with the row at
an angle of some 60 degrees. Raise
the handle Of the fork to perpendicu-
lar. Have the boy insert plant, with
the roots spread fan shape, in the crew
Ice thus made. Place the foot against
the fork on the opposite side from the
plant and lower the handle Of the fork,
at the same time Withdrawing it. The
dirt will thus be pressed firmly against
the roots as the fork comes out, and
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HOW TO GROW ONIONS.
A New Eng1ander who Begins Sew.
eraI Years beforehand"

eraI Years beforehand"
Onions, like some other farm crops,
require large amount of labor to give
the best results. But if given good
cultivation and the weeds are kept
down they make nice large onions. On
the average farm onions are grown
from sets, but the best are produced
from seed, as there are not enough sets
to go round. have grown them from
seed and have experimental on small
scale with planting the little ones the
second year. This plan gave good re
turns, but could not get enough little
onions.
The soil for onions should be fertile,
sandy, well underdrained so that it will
not pack after every rain. 1t is best to
apply good coating of barnyard ma
nure, but great objection is that it al
ways contains large amount of weed
seed. A fair amount of sand is an ad-
vantage if the soil is sufficiently reten-
tive to resist droughts.
Begin to get the soil in shape two or
three years beforehand. First SOW as
much clover as possible to increase the
fertility of the soil. Also plant hoed
crops to kill out as many weeds as pos
sible, for weeds are one of the greatest
barriers to success. Barnyard manure
and hen manure are good fertilizers to
be applied before planting. For the
n nTryfh hn
ground must be plowed as early as pos
sible, about the 1st of March and not
later than the Both. They will make a
crop planted a month later, but they
will get only half as large. The ground
cannot be in too fine a condition and
should be narrowed and dragged sever
al times. get the ground as free from
clods and trash as possible, frequently
raking it with a common garden hand
rake
To plant the seed, which is generally
the Wethersfeld variety, l use a gar
den drill which marks the next row.
has an adjustable shovel and plants
uniformly. l drill the rows about IS
inches apart, planting six to ten seeds
per foot. would advise every farmer
who plants very much garden to buy
one of these drills, which SoWs any
sized garden seed. l cultivate the
onions as soon as they are large
enough. The ground soon packs, and
the weeds make an early start. They
should be plowed at least after every
rain, as the ground then runs together
and crowds the young plants. They al
so have to be hand hoed, as the weeds
cannot be plowed out of the row. For
getting rid of these weeds l sometimes
use common knife. 1t is very hard
work whatever is used.
The plow we use runs astride the
row and is a double wheel hoe with
double hoes. 1t has several attach
ments, some cutting horizontally and
some cutting vertically. The former
are best for cultivating the plants when
small because they throw the dirt
away from the row. When the bulbs
begin to enlarge, the latter may be
used. The onions are pulled as soon as
the tops turn yellow. Then they are
topped and dried and laid away on
shelves so they will not heat. The fore
going is the onion growing programme
of a New England Homestead CORE,
spondent.
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Tobacco Keeps out Peach Borers.

Tobacco Keeps Out Peach BOrers.
It has been recommended to pile or
scatter various substances around the
base of peach trees to keep out the
borers. Professor M. v. Slingerland
tested tobacco stems (rhidribs of the
leaves from factory by winding
them around the base of the trees and
found the results astonishing. Evi-
IDENTIFY the tobacco kept out from two
thirds to three-ffths Of the borers.
Where the stems are cheaply obtain
able they would seem worth trying.
Middletown transcript., 1900-04-28

bumped as rapidly or hold out at it as
long as he can when walking erect.
The plan SO frequently advised Of
perching the plant on mound of dirt
In the middle of an excavation, with
its roots carefully and deliberately
spread out in cone shape, may do for a
fancy garden plat, but no practical
bergman need be told that it would
summon the sheriff in short order If at
tempted on large scale.
The berries whose comparative form
and size are illustrated are: 1, Cloud;
2, Crescent; 3, Cumberland; 4, Beecher;
8, Belmont; g. Bismarck.
Middletown transcript., 1900-04-28
Corn. clover and Hoga.

The man who raises corn. clover and
hogs need adopt no other line of farm
ing. He has his hands full and the
three go together so well that he need
not add third crop to them, remarks
the Boston Cultivator. Even the fertili-
ty of the soil can be kept up with these
three products. so there will be little
or no degeneration IN Il, By curing
plenty Of clover hay for winter use we
secure at the same time a cheap food
and one that keeps up the health of the
hogs better than If they had corn alone.
A liberal supply Of this clover hay
sucked away for winter use viii ena.
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HOMEMADE IMPLEMENTS.

A Three Plank Leveler-Cu1tivatOr
Shield For Corn.
To prepare land properly for grass
seeding or for corn or potato planting,
q three plank leveler and clod crusher,
such as is shown in the accompanying
cut, is often very useful, convenient
and effective. 1t is simple and easy to
make. The planks are held together by
. chain and bolts with large washers
which pass through the links. The
Middletown transcript., 1900-04-28
CORN SHIELD.

a small, strong rope and tie each end
to the cultivator in such a way that
the trough will be kept little in adj
vance of the shovels.
1t is best to leave this rope to play
loosely through the trough. as it would
otherwise upset in turning ut the end
Of the rows. The illustration shows
the construction exactly.
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the operation 1s
finished. If the
soil is very loose,
a solid spade
may be found
necessary in
place of a spad-
ing fork in order
to prevent the
dirt crumbling
b e t W e e n the
tines and filling
up the crevice.
This method of
ira n s p lanting
will be found
much more rapid
and satisfactory
t b a n the old
fashioned, back
breaking trowel
dibble work. No
man can crawl
over a field on
b 8 knees or
sLl AzI-
Middletown transcript., 1900-04-28
STRAWBERRY PLANTING.

Old Fashioned, Back Breaking Trow-
ell Work Done Away With.
At the north and In many portions Of
the south early spring is held to be the
most suitable time for transplanting
strawberries. Along the south Allan
tic and gulf coasts, however, the hu-
midity of the climate, comparatively
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A Perfect Newspaper.

To publish ALL THE NEWS promptly
and succinctly and in the most readable
form, without elision or partisan bias; to
discuss its significance with frankness, to
keep AN OPEN EYE FOR PUBLIC
ABUSES. to give besides complete record
of current thought, fancies and discoveries
in all departments ofhumane activity in
its DAILY EDITIONS of from 10 TO IA
PAGES, and to provide the whole for its
patrons at the nominal price of ONE CENT
that was from the outset, and will con-
tinue to be the aim of THE RECORD"
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HEAVY SOILS.
Mechanical Condition Improved by
Proper Manuring, Cropping, Etc.

Mechanical Condition Improved ny
Proper Manuring, Cropping, Etc.
Nothing is more aggravating, and
often Improbable, too, than to have
heavy muck or clay soil retain the
moisture and frost so late in the spring
that early plowing is out Of the ques-
ton. When other soils are in condi-
ton for plowing and cultivating, the
heavy soil is muddy and sticky, so that
1t is impossible to do much with it. OF
course the advice of some would be to
give up such soil, but when we consid-
er that the heavy muck soil is often the
richest this would hardly do. What we
need is some intelligent plan to i'm
prove the mechanical conditions of
such heavy soils so they will be less
likely to give trouble. The chief fault
to be found with heavy soils is that
there is not sufficient porosity in it to
permit water to percolate through it.
In other words, the natural drainage
of the soil is poor, and artificial drain
age of some kind must be resorted to.
There are several ways to accomplish
this. The most sensible is to add such
coarse material to it that there will be
a breaking up Of the sticky mass. This
will sometimes effect such a cure that
drains will not be necessary. But the
supply of coarse material must be kept
up continuously and not abandoned
after one year. This would be rather
expensive and unsatisfactory if it were
not at the same time fertilizing and
improving the soil. 1t is by utilizing
the right kind of crops that we can i'm
prove thick, mucky or clay soil. First
of all, however, it may be necessary to
dress the land with lime in order to
sweeten the soil for the proposed crops.
The land has indigestion, as it were,
and fermentation has made it sour so
that some crops could not thrive on it.
Thirty or 40 bushels of water Stacked
lime to each acre may first be needed
to sweeten the soil so that ordinary
crops will grow.
There is no better crop to raise the
first year than Indian corn, which can
be planted quite late in the season
when the soil has dried up. The corn
roots are coarse feeders and will break
up the soil to large extent, and the
fall corn should be cut early, and a
crop of buckwheat or winter grain of
some kind should be sowed, to be turn
ed under with the plow the following
spring. By adding rough plant food to
the soil in the shape of manure the soil
will be further improved. In plowing
the subsoil should be broken up as
much as possible. By cultivating each
year crops that have deep roots and
are coarse feeders we keep breaking
up the soil so that it has less chance
to get together into thick, compact
masses. There is nothing better for
this than coarse manure and green
crops turned under every year, plowing
them down as deep as possible into the
subsoil, says an American Cultiyator
writer.
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THE CHURCHES.


Bethesda M. E. Church.-Rev. E. w. Cas-
1880 a. m, and 7.90 p. m. sabbath School
every Sabbath at p. M, A. 6. Cox, Superin-
tendent. Prayer meeting, every Thursday
evening, 7.30 o'clock. Junier Epworth
League and Epworth Cadets every
Friday night at Z O'Clock. Young Ladies' Mis-
Women's Foreign Missionary Society, first
Friday night Of each month. Women's Home
Missionary Society, first Thursday night of
each month. Mite Society, first Saturday
night of each month. Official Board meeting
first Friday afternoon of each month at 2.30
o'clock.
Forest Presbyterian Church.-Rev. F. II.
Moore, Pastor. Services held every Sabbath
morning at 1870 o'clock, and every Sabbath
every Sabbath morning at 9.l5 O'Clock,
H. G. Ellison, Superintendent. Prayer meet
ing every Wednesday evening. Young Peo-
pePs Society Christian Endeavor meets every
Sunday evening at 6.45 o'clock. Junior So
ciety Christian Endeavor every Sunday after
noon at 8 O'Clock.
st. Anne's Protestant Episcopal Church.
Rev. VIM. j. Wilkie, Rector. Holy Commun-
ion on the first Sunday in the month at l0.3c
q. m. On all other Sundays at 7.30 a. m. Di-
vine services every Sunday at 1890 a. m, and
730 D. m. Morning Prayer and Litany every
Wednesday and Friday at $50 a. m. Even
ing Prayer on Wednesdays at 730 p. m. and
on Friday at $50 p. m. On all Holy Days
service at $50 q. M, Sunday School at 9. As a.
m. Adult Bible Glass at 7.45 p m. on We'd
nesdays. The Guild meets every Thursday at
2 p. m, the Junior Auxiliary en- Saturdays at
8 p. m. and the Woman's Auxiliary on the
second Friday of each month at 2.S0 p. m.
Services at Armstrong; Chapel the first
Sabbath of each month at p. m.
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canker, Dead Spot, Black Spot, Etc.

Canker, Dead Spot, Black Spot, Etc.
Apple tree anthracnose is the name
which Professor Cordley of Oregon has
selected as appropriate for a trouble
that is locally known as "canker,"
dead spot" or "black spot" in the ap-
pie orchards Of the Pacific northwest,
where it has been quite serious the
past year. 1t was at first thought that
it was identical with the apple canker
Of eastern orchards, but Mr.. Cordley
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bic a farmer to winter his hogs at a
cost much lower than another who de-
pends chiefly upon corn and scraps.
The leaves and chaff of the clover
hay formerly made Il considerable item
of waste. These today are fed to the
hogs by mixing them up with a small
amount of bran and middlings and
then soaking them overnight in water.
Let the water be hot where poured In,
and then feed when cold. The hogs
relish this mixture and eat it greedily
the next morning. When all the loose
leaves and chaff have been used up in
this way, the clover hay can be cut up
and soaked and mixed with middlings,
bran or cracked corn.
Reware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell ard completely derange the whole
system when entering it through the muc-
used except on prescriptions from reputable
physicians, as the damage they will do is
ten fold to the good you can possibly derive
from them. Halls Catarrh Cure, manu-
factured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.,
contains no mercury, and is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucuous surfaces of the system. In buy
ing Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. 1t is taken internally, and made
in Toledo. Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co
Testimonials free.
Sold by all Druggists, price 75c. per
bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best
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The
Record

after a career of over twenty years of unin-
terrupted growth is justified in claiming
that the standard first established by its
founders is the one true test of