The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-09-01
Farmers Aided By Science

mo book more certain large circulation Book
OF the Department Agriculture of the interesting articles
experiment station work
Our agricultural experiment stations form the complete y
of agricultural research the world and the results they attain
influencing large extent the New York Sun
There sixty of these stations employing nearly trained
practical they operation and
territory including Alaska Hawaii Porto Rico and the Philippines
The existed national enterprise for fourteen
the outlay for agricultural investigation in that time has been at the
OF ST for nearly $1,000 worth of farm products which cannot be
considered extravagant outlay
Here results of the work of the stations:
"Our farmers spend $oOooOoo for fertilizers and the
therefore given particular attention this subject Fraud
exavagan about fertilizers have been largely eliminated
from the business and thousands OF farmers buying fertilizers more
negeny economically. They just what they using
nitrogen phosphorc acid and potash with the for
using them.
of barnyard is
estimated $oooooo Many of the stations have given special aten
the farm with the result that bet
ter methods Of its care and being employed.
The successful introduction OF Mansury barley for which the Wis
mainly responsible has increased the yield of barley
over a wide region with results millions dollars.
about fifteen years by the stations
California Kansas and Oklahoma 1t has been found specially suited
regions of rainfall The Kansas alone in 1899 was
"A variety Of oats introduced by Department Agriculture and
tested and improved by wide
distributed and grown with average increased yield wherever
is OF from three to five bushels
The various macaron whe which have been tested under varying
conditions by number of the stations have proved successful that
will probably produce all the
Investigations experiment
that OF plants be
successfully the south than supposed and have laid
the foundation wide development OF the live stock and dairy indus
tries of that region.
The Department Of Agriculture and the Connecticut station
cooperating with local tobacco growers have within the last three
demonstrated that grade of Sumaa wrapper tobacco be
shade the Connecticut valley Professor Whitney
that this discovery will increase the value the light lands OF the Con
nectcut valley per cent
Speaking the work of the Minnesota station in breeding wheat
W. Harwood has recently written that only quite possible
but indeed established fact that weats the best the
world has possessed be produced By the the
whas the the hadwhat region of the northwest may be in
creased from three to five bushels to the
The stations of the northwestern have extended the limits
culture by proving by careful selections of varieties and modified
methods OF culture that this may be regions heobeo
believed to be unsuited to culture.
The stations have been prominent the Investigations which have
led system forcing vegetables in the field under glass
for supplying the markets with fresh vegetables all Of the
For example the winter culture of lettuce North Caro-
lima yielding 100000 The Ohio station discovered
that started the greenhouse under frames from seed and
then tranpnted the field produce larger onions and earlier and
heavier than by the methods of ag seeding This
discovery is changing the methods of onion culture.
stations helping agriculture Their investigations relating pro-
ece against plant diseases and injurious insects the
and utilization of fodder breeding and darng the poec
ton of farmers against fraud and other topics have been of the
value