The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-26
OAHU FARMERS WILL
BEAUT|FY COUNTRY ROADS
Farmers Institute, Held at Wahiawa, Appointed
a Committee to Take Matter in Hand.
D. [, Van Dine on Injurious Insects.

on Saturday. There are now two flour
fshing organizations of this society, one
on this island and one at Hilo, re2-
resenting the two localities where
diversified farming is being most sue
cessfully carried on.
Two industries at least are now per-
manently established, pineapples at
Wahiawa and bananas in the Hilo dis
trict with certainty that others will
follow.
AT the meeting held Saturday last
| there was an afternoon and an evening
session, Jared G. Smith, president of
the institute, presiding at both. The
first matter of business was reaort
! by Mr. Smith, chairman of the COM
mittee of publishing and distributing
the first annual report of the proceed
| ings of the Institute. Mr.. Smith said
that the seventy-five dollars appro-
priated by the last Legislature for this
purpose was now available and that
soon 1900 copies would be printed and
distributed.
BEAUTIFYING COUNTRY ROADS.
By a motion duly made and carried
the following were appointed by the
president a committee on identifying
and improving the country roads of
Oahu: James D. Dole, William Thomas,
Sr., Mrs. B. o. Clark.
WILL JOIN NATIONAL SOCIETY.
On motion duly made and carried Mr..
Smith was appointed to take the meas
ures necessary to identify this society
with the American Association Of
Farmers Institute Workers. This line
of work, distinct from experiment sta
ton work, has become of such impor-
tance that an Office has been created
under this head in the United States
Department of Agriculture.
MEET NEXT AT KAMEHAMEHA.
The secretary read a letter from F.
G. Krauss of Kamehameha Schools in
viting the Institute to hold its next
meeting, through the courtesy of the
principal, at that place. This invita-
| ton was cordially accepted.
At the next meeting there will be an
election of officers and the president
appointed the following a committee on
nominations: Jared G. Smith. ex-ofti-
clio; B. O. Clark, F. G.. Krauss, E. c.
| Shorey, j. E. Higgins.
| ,;e.+
| ed of three papers, each followed by a
| general discussion. The first paper was
presented by DR.. E. c. Shorey, chemist
| of the U. S. Experiment Station. The
subject was, agricultural Chemistry"
The next paper by Mr.. B. o. Clark,
was entitled, THE Possibility of the
| Development of the Fruit Industry in
| Hawaii" The last paper, insects In
| furious and Beneficial to the Farmer
| was presented by d. L. Van Dine, en-
tomologist of the Z. S. Experiment
Station. T. F. Crawley, manager of the
Hawaiian Fertilizer Co.: Jared G.
Smith, James D. Dole, j. E. Higgins,
horticulturist of the U. S. Experiment
Station; w. T. Pope, of the Normal
School; c. J. Austin, superintendent OF
the Territorial Nursery, and l.. G. KEEL
logg were the principal speakers in the
discussions of the various papers
INSECTS INJURIOUS AND BENE-
FTCIAL TO THE FARMER
Mr. D. L. Van Dine spoke as follows:
1t is not my intention to enumerate
the many injurious and beneficial in
sects here in Hawaii but rather tC
J arouse your interest in insects in gen.
| nv illnCtra TING n their eco
nomic Importance. That great class
of animal life, the insect world, which
surrounds US in such countless num-
bers, has more to do with the we'll be.
ing of any community than many of US
realize. The depredations of the in
furious species have created among
the producers of agricultural product:
, a demand for information in regard tt
} the pests and remedies for abatins
} their destructive work. In answer t
this demand there has been published
} vast amount of information on tn,
life, habits, and injury of the various
pests, with remedial measures for thei
( control, the results of the work o
{ scientists in the Department of Agri
: culture at Washington and the variou
4 Experiment Stations. This subject ha
) become a distinct science in itself.
B Conditions in different localities a.
} regards the growth of plants and tn
habits of insects differ. The principles
J however underlying the subject ar
J the same. The apparent contradiction
Z in the remedies suggested by the diff
4 ferent writer's or the failures follow
( ing attempts of the farmer to carr.
out on rule of thumb basis tn
recommendations given, do not alte
the facts upon which the suggestion
are made. Recommendations for spe
cific treatment in one place cannot in
variably hold in every place. The con
Trajectory remedies were confusing 70
the reason that, though the subject wa
clear to the Investigators, it was vague
. to the farmers: the information no
being within the reach of those VIII,
needed it the most.
: FUNCTION OF EXPERIMENT STA
TIONS.
III 1t is not fair to say that the Expert
ment Stations have not fulfilled thei
function but rather that a further de
mand has been created, that is tina
the necessary information be given Il