The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-09-19
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Fit WHIT We CHIT
In This Way Hawaiian
Pineapples Would
Pay Us Well.
JARED SMITH on WlHIlHl FARMS
PIONEER coLoMsTs PROVING
THE IMPOSSIBLE TO Sc
POSSIBLE
JARED SMITH on WAHILWl FARMS
Lines. Pears. Peaches. Oranges. Pep
pers, Sweet Potatoes. Tomatoes,
TarO, Riee. Sorghum, Bananas,
PineappIes and Other Good Things

The wahiawa eolonists are doing the
impossible said Jared Smith, Of the
Agricultural Experiment Station. the
other day. That IS to say. they are do
ing what has heretofore been considered
the impossible They are cultivating land
where IL was always said that nothing
would grow. and. while they are as yet
not making a tremendous success. they
are certainly on the high road TO success,
and il won't be many years before they
viii be repaid for all their efforts.
Il visited the Wahiawa colony on Fri
day last. returning to town on Monday.
] was most fayorably impressed with
what l saw down there, and | am salts
fed that the people, who are doing their
best to improve the land. are an intelli-
gent lot of practical farmers. They are
pioneers in this country. The land they
are eultivhting is new land. and they have
the same difficulties with which to con-
tend that the first Wetsern settlers en-
cOuntered.
about ten miles from Pearl City.
about half way between Oahu and Wal
alua sugar plantations. on a table land.
just over the divide on the Waialua side.
there are thirteen families, each having
one hundred acres. In some places
the land is comparatively fat. 1t slopes
in a general way towards the Waianae
mountains, having a slope of about $50
feet to the mile. 1t is a slightly rolling
country. and is cut up here and there by
deep gulches. l crossed three of the
gulches on my way ont there. The coun-
try was heavily grassed when the farmers
started in to cultivate and there was con-
siderable brush. A large amount of the
grass has now been plowed under and
the brush has been cut. As yet they are
not irrigating at all. having depended on
natural water supplies They have been
very fortunate in the matter of rain since
the colony was started. A ditch is being
built. however. and in about six months
time they will have a splendid water sup
ply.
Byron o. Clark. formerly commits
sioner of agriculture. preceding Wray
Taylor, was one of the founders of the
colony. he showed me around the col
ony and l saw the people at work. what
they had accomplished and what they had
in view and came to the conclusion that
the colony was in every way a good pro-
position.
Most of the families at Wahiawa are
from California. have had experience in
farming. and are careful and methodical
in their cultivation and work.
Many orchards have been started.
There are peaches, pears. oranges, lines.
lemons and alligator pears to be Plucked
from many trees in the near future. A
few rubber trees have been started. A
few apple trees are being eoaxed along.
and in fact everything. in the way of fruit
trees is being tried.
Nothing has been tried in the way of
wheat and corn. Some sorghum is grow
ing and is doing well.
Insects are the deadly enemies of the
farmers and the Wahiawa colony is hav-
ing hard fight with them. There seems
to be about twenty different kinds of bugs
for everything, which manages to get
above the ground
.Pineapples viii undoubtedly prove OF
the greatest commercial value TO the col
onists. They are raising large quantities
of this delicious fruit and are having
much success. The pineapple raised al
Wahiawa has splendid flavor and is oil
excellent quality. II is sweet and luscious
and very nice.
Something is being done in vegetables
but the insects are playing havoc in this
| department.
The insects which are proving such .
| pest are all imported here The native
insects are very hard to find There are
practically no native insects botherins
/ the farmers. The imported insects come
| here with the hay and fresh vegetable;
ana packing material brought from out
/ side. They have been coming here eyel
since the Islands were settled by foreign
ers The trouble here is that when yoI
| introduce an insect you fail TO introdue,
| its natural enemies. its parasites Thai
Is the reason they exist here in such en-
ornous numbers The only way to ge
| rid OF them is to introduce the parasites
This IS where Professor Koebeie's work i
proving of such value to agricultural in
tereSts; He is working on the introduc
ton Of the natural enemies Of the insect
] already here. This is one way of doinl
T. Another way is to poison and spray
Spraying doesn't DO much good. however
where you get rain every night and In,
spray Is washed OF about as fast as 70,
put II on the plants or trees. 1t become
very expensive matter to spray wher
rains are almost daily and nightly. Y.
SPRAY is being used at Wahiawa.
The cOlonists are growing some dry
land taro and are also putting in som
| dryland rice. This dry-land rice is no
3 commercial variety. as it would not fin,
3 market on the COST. but il Is all RICH
for consumption on these Islands. As
matter Of fact the dry-land rice is mos
excellent in quality. The most market
| able rice IS that which grows the grail
| white and polished In the process q
milling the outside layers Of the grain ar
ground OF and the white. starckv. inne
substance is polished. This looks yer
/ well. but this rice is not as nutritious 3
the rice not deprived Of the outer lsvers
Ia the outer layers. I do not mean IA
she'll are all the muscle masking qualities
The center consists chiefly Of starch.
The processes of milling rice here ar
not modern and the rice miile<i here is no
deprived of the outer layers Of the rrair
-. while the rice raised here Is not ii
best for export purposes Il IS most exec
lent Tor home consumption The markets
ron know. par more attention 10 appear
anees than actual virtue
\ number Of the eolonisks have searte
to raise Gninea grass. Other grass
aresbefbg raised some Of the best. and AZ
d4iag well. There arr several pafehs
&c Para xresS
'Fiae sweet potatoes. in large quA1
| titles. are thriving and I observed son
splendid tomatoes and cassaFa.
Il cannon say thar the ,ssfouv i IN