The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-08-03
Stubs ON
THE SCENE
Agricultural Problem
HIS Study.
SENT BY UNITED STATES
Scientist will Report on Hawaii to
Secretary Wilson After
Investigation

| William Carter Stubbs, agent of the
United States Department OF Agricul-
ture and Director of the Louisiana tx
pertinent stations, arrived on the Aus
tralia yesterday and is registered at
the Hawaiian hotel with his wife. DR..
Stubs was appointed by Secretary of
| Agriculture Wilson for the important
post of inspecting the agricultural pos
siblities of the Hawaiian Islands and
making recommendations for the es-
tablshment of a United States Expert
ment station in the islands.
IT am here to look up the agricul
tural prospects of Hawaii" said DIR.
Stubs to an Advertiser representative
yesterday afternoon. II have about
four pages of typewriter instructions,
but to put them in nutshell, / Will
say that 1 am sent here to study every
agricultural possibility. After that
such details as these: We understand
that you buy all your vegetables in
San Francisco? Our query to this Is
why cannot they be raised here?
Then all your hay and fodder for
your animals comes from the States.
why cannot these staples be raised
here? You import nearly all your fruits
from California? Why cannot the bulk
of these luxuries be made to grow
here?
THE next question is in regard to
economical irrigation. We propose to
look up the question Of the use of wa
ter to the fullest extent and ascertain
if too much water is used here in irri-
CATION. Cannot the planters and all
80 fo,
poses economize on these lines?
Then the next thing is to recon-
mend a suitable place for the estab-
lishment of an experiment station.
Then to look up the land valuations
and ascertain what property the gov
eminent owns. 1t is also my purpose
to see what can be done toward ANAL
gamating the interests of the planters
and the United States in the estab-
fishing of such an experiment station
which would accrue to the benefit OF
the general public. 1t may be that IL
the planters can come to an agreement
with the government of the United
States the experiment station which
they have had under their control may
be merged into that about to be estab-
lished by the Department of Agricul-
ture.
1.-The Normal and Kamehameha
schools are also on my list for inspec-
ton. l will also see as many planters
and farmers as possible during my
stay which will extend possibly for five
or six weeks. l will consult them free
ly as to their wants.
Secretary Wilson has instructed me
to deliver a message to the people of
Hawaii that he will do anything he can
to advance the agricultural interests OF
the Islands"
DIR. Stubs Is not a stranger to the
planters of the Islands although this
is his first visit He knows most of
them, as nearly all of them have made
to Louisiana to observe
the experiments in cane culture. and
it was through DR.. Stubs that DR..
Walter Maxwell, director of the local
experiment station was sent to Hawaii.
DIR. Maxwell was connected with the
Of the Louisiana Expert
ment station under DR.. Stubs. When
the Hawaiian planters sent request
for scientist, accompanied by check
for $1,000, DR.. Stubs selected DR.. Max
we'll and Prof. Crawley.
The planters have also selected an
other pupil of DIR. Stubs to succeed
DIR. Maxwell who leaves shortly for
Queensland, Australia. This Is Robert
Emmett Blouin, whom DR.. Stubbs de-
scribes as man of splendid scientific
and who will be worthy
successor to DIR. Maxwell.
DIR. Stubs has been engaged for the
last fifteen years in running the sugar
stations of Louisiana and
in connection with this work has made
with sub-tropical plants;
hence his appointment, as the agricul-
tural conditions of Louisiana and Ha-
wall are so closely allied.
Among others who have been sent to
Hawaii by DR.. Stubbs, or who were pu-
pills in the school iD which he is pro-
fessor. are Prof. Shorey. Messrs. Clark,
Olden. Collins, Rodriguez.
DR.. Stubb's titles are legion. He Is d.
rector of the experiment stations at
Audubon Park, Baton Rouge and CAL
houn; State Chemist: Director of the
State Geological Survey and Professor
Of the State University.
About $4,000 has been appropriated
by Congress for preliminary expert
ment work In Hawaii for this year.
Upon DIR. Stubb's recommendations,
Wilson will ask Congress for
for the establishment of
the Hawaiian Experiment Station and
a full staff of officers.
-SAs