The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-05-01
WHAT We
MAY GROW
Jared Smith Talks
About Small
Farming.
ADDRESSES AT
hlLO AND OLAA
Varied Export Products From
VIII ch Cur Agricultural Pee
pie Might Make Money.

On his recent trip to Hawaii Prof
Jared Smith. head OF the United States
government experimental station. de-
| livered two lectures on the subject of
Island industries. one at HDo and one
at Olaa- The lectures were based upon
observations made at the time of a for
mer visit and had to deal with the ag-
ricuituraI possibilities OF the communi-
II ~ between HiIo and Mountain View.
4 on the Volcano road. The following is
a part OF the address delivered by the
Professor at Hilo and at Mountain
View:
| The practice OF agriculture is old. but
/ instruction In agriculture Is new. The
first school for instruction In agricuI-
ture was founded in Denmark in the
year lsc0: the first in the United States
! IT. Michigan In 1855. The first expert
ment station in 1875. at Wesleyan Uni
yersity at, hiddletown. Conn. Stili
later, on March 2. 1857. Congress passed
the Hatcn Act. the enabling act under
which the 80 Federal experiment sta
tions were to- be founded, In every State
aud Territory. An annual appropria-
ton OF $4,000 was set apart for the
support and maintenance OF each sta
ton Today the total Federal appro-
priation for this work. the development
land. amounts To three-quarters OF a
million dollars. and half "a million more
Is given by the State and Territorial
legislatures
In the United States. starting with
the agricultural college in 1855. the ex-
pertinent station In 1879. another sep
arate institution Is now In process OF
Farmers Institute.
The agricultural college Is a training
school for the student and II station +.
N...NA
experiment station Ia for research. for |
an inve stiRation of the fundamental /
principles underlying the science OF ag- |
ricuiture. Its field Is in the laboratory. /
The Farmers Institute has become
ife ceSsary as q connecting link between
the station and college on the one hand |
AMI the practical farmer. The func-
tion Of the Farmers Institute IL to- re-
ducc facts as determined in the class
room. the laboratory and the expert
mental field. To terms OF comprehension
by the man who makes his living from
the soil Each of these institutions
college. station and Institute-are nee
essary parts Of the educational system
Of our land. Trey are separate. but
not independent Each Is necessary to
the rounding out Of the whole.
within the past fifteen years the
farmer has undergone radical
change. The world OF agriculture as
ell az OF commerce IL getting smaller.
Tn narrowing has been brought abou.
by the wonderful Improvement In
methods u transportation. The reAt
tOor neighbors OF our cane planters in
Hawaii are sugar beet farmers of Ger
many. tire English colonies on the
Lambesi and the Dutch landlords in
lava Competition In every line OF ag-
-icultural production Is becoming
,loSer all over the world The wheat
surplus OF Minnesota and the Dakotas ;
nay go To relieve "A famine la India.
rhe period OF isolation OF countries
md localities has passed forever. The
steam and electric road has taken the ,
place OF the ox-cart OF yesterday. the ,
witt ocean steamer Is displacing the
Iailirg vessel. You have ceased to be !
IN Island community and have become
he next door neighbor OF all the world. I
With long continued cultivation there
las come decrease In the fertility of
he soil. With improved methods of
there has been an in ,
crops. Above all. lower ,
,rices and closer competition have
made the farmer a student whether he
would be one or not. The day has l
'assed when the farm was the last re-
Ort Of the man who was unsuccessful .
n other occupations. The narrowing a
4 the world OF trade and commerce q
las made the practice OF agriculture
business. profession. and we all ,
now that the business man who sue .
eeds must understand his busines IS and ,
make IL a study. 1t has been true for
II time with the banker and manufac- n
urer. the lawyer. doctor and merchant
1T Is true today OF the farmer. q
the science OF agriculture has out =
tripped its practice. To bring the two '
lore closely together IL the aim of the q
station and the Farmers'
institute. ,
The successful engineer must under
tand both the principle on which his
nGine works and also its construction. :
n. successful farmer works In n field