The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-07-06
ARE HELPING
THEMSELVES
HauuIa Children as
Farmers.
LEARNING LIES LESSONS
PIucky Work Of Native Youths
Under Direction Of Superin-
tehdent Andrews.

The following is the annual report of
the Farmers Institute. established at
the HauuIa Pubic School, September
II, 1899:
To the Superintendent of Public In
struction, Alatau r. Atkinson, ESD
Honolulu. Territory of Hawaii:
Dear SRI have the honor to report
that tins institute is an outgrOwtn OF
q "Notobac SOCIETY," when WAS sue
CT ssfully conducted for three years ana
v. hich IN the beginning of the last
scholastic year changed It's name ana
aims. W hen il collapsed 1t had purse
lined with $3.50, which was turned over
to the Farmers Institute. TINS insti-
tute numbers fiIJy members all told.
1t is conducted under the following
rules drafted by It's members:
l. Any pupil is at liberty To join
2. 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 a larger patch than one can
manage.
g. A patch once taken up must be
thoroughly TILED. Penalty for nom
compliance is forfeiture OF all profits
of the labor already done.
4. ANY member leaving school and
not wishing to remain member of the
club forfeits all rights Of interests in
the profits aCcruing from his Former
labor Profits of such forsaken patches
will be divided among the members of
the club, share and share alike No
reclamation can be made.
8. The above rule is made so stringent
in order to induce members leaving
school not to leave the club.
6. The object of the organization is to
ance especially among the native part
of 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 90 rose apples,
soursops, l algcroba, II cotton, momi
% oranges Il mangoes, peach, 9 le-
hua pepper trees alligator pears 10
Chinese boulo, l silver oak 1 fan palm
1 Endogen, 4 Tahitian trees. 10 iron
trees. sc lines / tamarind. Trees whose
names | could not obtain, g. and of the
pomegranate 8, awaroot l, fig 2, amount
ing in all to about 1875 trees set out OF
trees in the clubs nursery there are:
Pandanus, 6; wauke, 1; lines 60; rose
apples, l; pomegranate. g. soursop, 3;
coffee. 20; Sapote or Spanish orange, 3:
African dates. Q. OF the Popoulu or
mountain banana, 90; China banana, "a
stalks.
GARDEN WORK.
During the summer vacation of 1898
the General Armstrong Institute was
organized. | then applied for and re-
ceived tn following garden tools: one
canal barrow, pitchforks, = panta-
tATn hoo IN.4 t..1,4 IL .t..Irs
l garden hoe, , cane knives, . spades, I |
bush hook. 2 diggers and / az
Eighty-fiVe children, or the whole of |
the then existing society (Notobac) |
used these tools on a patch of lana |
measuring 5000 square feet. The re-
suits obtained / had the honor to report |
last year at the General Armstrong; |
annual meeting at the High School |
building. We succeeded pretty well in |
spite of chickens and turkeys pigs and |
goats. which unfriendly people turned |
in our patches in order to dIshearten |
us.
FIRST CROP y BIG ONE.
1 am happy to state that during the
course of the last year animals did not
bother us. We moved our garden to
other quarters. We took up private
kuleana and some of the surrounding
konohiki land. amounting to about two
acres. on this land the incipient Farm
ers' institute. eleven strong in the be-
ginning of the year began with $19O
and raised its first crop Of vegetables.
TWO hundred head of lettuce, 2 BUSH
els of carrots, 2 bushels of turnips,
quantity of white Stuttgart radishes,
French breakfast radshes. 2 pecks
sweet peas, $50 pounds string beans, 100
pounds wax beans, / bushel beets,
pecks of cucumbers 20 heads of cab
bage, % pounds alfalfa hay, each cut
! !
onions, corn and melons, besides
Of Chinese vegetables, espe-
cially tWo-foot long bean. All this
was our first crop. For our second crop
We were in pilikia, having no seeds
and We could not get what we wanted,
as the plague was in town. / therefore
bought peanuts for the club which from
IL grew to 90. Our third crop was sown
during the last week of June and as
vacation was at hand the club thought
that peanuts would take care of them
serves Tor two months better than any
other vegetable. All but one-half an
acre is under cultivation.
TOOLS ARE NEEDED.
In concluding, I would respectfully
state that We are sadly in want OF tools
We are, perhaps, doing as good as any
public school / herewith append list
of our requirements:
One light pillow or heavy cultivator, !
pair of horses or mules. 2 canal barrows,
~ plantation hoes. rakes. pickaxes,
~ garden hoes, cane knives, / axe, -
garden trowels.
1 was agreeably surprised to hear ,
fr \ M, d. Monsarrat that the Depart !
ment of Instruction owned four acres |
OF land at Hauula. Two Of these could
be used for agricultural purposes during
the coming year. tits but a three min
ute walk from school
Respectfully submitted,
q. ANDREWS.