The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-24

he II r dIi1ltIS 1ISlllult ever
held in the Hawaiian Islands will
be opened tomorrow at the Wa
hiawa colony. 1t will be under the di-
rection of the United States Agricul-
tural Department and is to be but the
forerunner OF a series of farmers insti-
tutes to be conducted during the year
T. f. Sedgwick. assistant director of
the Experimental Station, will be in
charge of the campaign of education
among Hawaiis small farmers, and he
will be assisted tomorrow both by d.
l.. Van Dyne and Prof. Krauss, who is
in charge of the agricultural work at
the Kamehameha school.
The holding of farmers institutes is
encouraged by the Bureau of Agricul
ture at Washington, and it is because
of instructions received from Washing
ton that Director Jared Smith seeks to
inaugurate the movement in Hawaii.
The California colony at Wahiawa is
the most suitable location on Oahu,
that being the gathering place of the
largest number of farmers which it is
sought to interest. The movement will
in time extend TO the other Islands
wherever small farming is being given
a trial.
In the States, farmers institutes are
regular feature of every farming
community. Many of the States and
Territories make special appropriations
for the payment of the expense of these
classes in agriculture and Hawaii is
one of the few places where no such
l-ovision has been made.
A late bulletin received by Jared c.
Smith shows that with but three eX
ceptions farmers Institutes were held
i every State and Territory in the
Union. The machinery of adminiStra-
ton is of two kinds-it may be directly
under governmental auspices, or di
rectly in the hands of an educational in
stitution. In the older States the gov
eminent is usually in control, but ev-
erywhere the value of the educational
agricultural institute is being recog
nized. In the middle West, particu-
larly, the movement has assumed wide
proportions and large sums of money
are expended annually for the informa-
ton of the farmer. In Hawaii the ag- /
ricultural instruction in the schools is
expected to bear fruit at no distant
date. and with the organization of
farmers Institutes the small farming
industry can be considered to be well
established for a country that is COM
monty said to be given over entirely
TO one crop-sugar.
At the meeting to be held at Wahia- ,
wa Saturday paper by Jared Smith ,
is to be read. though he Will be unable
to be present for himself. His subject ,
is the forage plant, of which he has
made a life study.
Mr.. Sedgwick will drive out to the
colony today, accompanied by Mrs.
Messrs. Van Dyne and
Krauss will go in the morning, The
meeting, though not expected to be
large one. will be unique and interest
ing and will be of considerable impor-
lance as a forerunner of the future.
Besides a general discussion of agricul- ,
tural topics and the reading of Mr..
Smiths paper. a temporary organiza-
ton will be effected. The principal OBJ
ject of the meeting is to plan for a sec
ond institute, which it is hoped can be
held in Honolulu probably in June or,
July.
WILCOX SENDS SEEDS.
wray TAYLOR. Commissioner of Agri-
culture. received by the Ventura twenty
nine bags of vegetable seeds sent by
Wilcox for general distribution
In the Islands, Altogether, there are
some four thousand packages of good
seeds. which Commissioner Taylor viii
apporticn upon application A large
number of orders for the seeds have al
-eaCiv been received and as soon as the
can be properly classlhed
the seeds will be distributed. Nearly
every form of vegetable seed known in
the United states is included in the ship
neut. Cucumbers. watermelons, turnips,
radishes parsnps, peas, parsley, beets,
onions. spinach. squash, corn, lettuce,
and tomatoes are but a few
IF the varieties noted by Commissioner
Tavlor Delegate WilcoX's flower seeds
L., r.,n+ Mrs HAilcnN for dis