The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-05
ARE HELP ING
THEMSELVES.
Hauula Children as
Farmers.
LEARNING LIES LESSONS
PIUcky Work of Native Youths
Under Direction Of Superin-
tehdent Andrews.

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The following is the annual report Of
the Farmers Institute. established at
the Hauuia Public School, September
II. 1883:
To the superintendent Of Public In
struction. Alatau Il. Atkinson, Esq,
Honolulu, Territory of HAWAII:
Dear SRI have the honor to report
that this institute is an outgrowth of
"A "Notobac Society" which was sue
cessfully conducted for three years and
which in the beginning of the last
scholastic year changed its name and
aims. When it collapsed ii had purse
lined with $3.50, which was turned over
TO the Farmers Institute. This insti-
tute numbers fifty members, all told.
1t is conducted under the following
rules drafted by Its members:
1. Any pupil is at liberty to join.
. Suitable land will be divided up
into patches and beds and allotted TO
each member, according to his or her
ability, and no one will be forced to
take up larger patch than one can
manage.
g. A patch once taken up must be
| thoroughly titled. Penalty for non
compliance is forfeiture of all profits
of the labor already done.
| 4. Any member leaving school and
not wishing to remain a member of the
/ club forfeits all rights of interests in
the profits accruing from his former
labor. Profits of such fOrsaken patches
viii be divided among the members of
/ the club. share and share alike. No
reclamation can be made.
/ 5. The above rule is made SO stringent
in order to induce members leaving
school not to leave the club.
| s. The object Of the organization is to
form habits of industry and persever-
ance. especially among the native part
lof the population which, unfortunate
" for our district. is addicted to the
opium habit, to che IA, okolehao and
the playing of cards. The greater part
Of the native parents is not In favor
Of this club. because it is a menace to
their Incidence.
WORK OF THE YEAR.
The children have been shown how
To set out and care for % rose apples,
soursops. 1 algeroba. II cotton. momi
% oranges. IL mangoes peach. 2 le-
lhua. 4 pepper trees. alligator pears, 10
IChinese boulo, ! silver oak, l fan palm
I Endogen. 4 Tahitian trees. 10 iron
trees. So lines. / tamarind. Trees whose
names | could not obtain, 6. and of the
pomegranate s. awaroot l. fig 2. amount
ing in all to about 195 trees set out. OF
trees in the clubs nursery there are:
Pandanus. s; wauke. /; lines. so; rose
apples, 1; pomegranate. s; soursop, 3;
coffee. 20; Sapote or Spanish orange, g.
African dates. 9. OF the Popoulu oil
mountain banana, %; China banana, 8
stalks.
. GARDEN WORK.
During the summer vacation of 1885,
the General Armstrong Institute wa!
organized. / then applied for and re
ceived tas following garden tools: On'
canal barrow. pitchforks, 2 planta
ton hoes. hatchets. L rake, pickax
1 garden hoe, cane knives, 2 spades,
bush hook, 2 digsers and 1 az.
/ Eighty-fiVe children. or the whole o
the then existing society (Notobac
used those tools on a patch of Ian
measuring 5000 square feet. The re
suits obtained had the honor to repor
last year at the General Armstrong
annual meeting at the High Schoc
building We succeeded pretty well 1
spite of chickens and turkeys, pigs an
goats. which unfriendly people turne
= in our patches in order to dishearte
us
FIRST CROP A BIG ONE.
I am happy to state that during tn
course of the last year animals did nc
bother US. We moved our garden [
other quarters. We took up a privat
kuleana and some of the surroundin
konohiki land. amounting to about tw
acres. on this land the incipient Farm
ers' Institute, eleven strong in the bC
ginning of the year. began with 81!
and raised its first crop of vegetable
Two hundred head Of lettuce, 2 busi
els Of carrots. bushels of turnips.
quantity of white Stuttgart radishe
French breakfast radishes, peel
sweet peas, $50 pounds string beans, i
pounds wax beans. i bushel beets.
pecks of cucumbers. IS heads of cal
bage, % pounds alfalfa hay. each Gu
. ting: IL kinds sweet potatoes. tomatoes
10 onions, corn and melons. besides
quantity Of Chinese vegetables, esp
cially a two-fOot long bean. All tn
was our first crop. For our second ere
we were in pilil<ia, having no seed
and we could not get what we wante
as the plague was in town. I thereto
bought peanuts for the club, which fro
ii grew TO so. Our third crop was SOW
during the last week of June. and
vacation was at hand the club thong
that peanuts would take care of ther
selves for two months better than al
other vegetable. All but one-half
acre is under cultivation.
". TOOLS ARE NEEDED.
In concluding. I would respectful
state that we are sadly in want of too
We are, perhaps. doing as good as al
public school l herewith append Il
Of our requirements:
one light pillow or heavy cultivator
, pair Of horses or mules, 2 canal barrow
IL plantation hoes. s rakes, pickax'
ID II garden hoes. 2 cane knives, 1 axe,
garden trowels.
L was agreeably surprised to he
fr u Nj. ID. Monsarrat that the Depal
ment of instruction owned four acr
OF land at Hauula. Two Of these cot
be used for agricultural purposes duri
the coming year; tits but a three-mi
ute walk from school
Respectfully submitted.
. g. ANDREWS