Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-02-01
.Al0'S SOCIETY,
Of FARMERS

Professor II. w. Henshaw reported
to the Farmers Institute on Saturday
on the work OF the Agricultural Socie
ty of Hilo. in part as follows:
The Agricultural Society of Hilo en-
tered life about year and a half ago
and now has a membership of ~. II
its existence may be said to have been
Inspired by Mr.. Jared Smith and If the
society owes its origin to the same
general ideas and purposes to which
IL due the Honolulu organization. its
steady growth and the increasing in.
tercst In its meetings may fairly be
ascribed TO the zeal and fostering care
Of Its president, Mr.. Charles FurneauX,
&c whom the society owes much. in
Guiding its place of meeting.
From the nature of its membership,
which is largely composed of practical
farmers, the aims of the Hilo Society
are chiefly, II not wholly, practical.
and the papers read at its meetings
and the problems propounded by its
members for solution conceriNgeHezey.
ery-doy work of the farm
The regular meetings of the society
are quarterly. but during the past year
the society has held eight regular and
special meetings for the transaction
OF business and the reading of papers.
The usual plan of procedure is for the
president to designate individuals to
prepare papers upon specified topics,
the reading Of which Is usually follow.
ed by interesting discussions and a
comparison of individual experiences.
BY this method the practical advan.
tages are sought of the dissemination
OF information among the members,
the comparison of results attained by
similar or by unlike methods to those
Indicated by the reader of the paper,
and record OF successes and failures.
In these Islands almost every form
OF farming Is more or less OF an exper.
| iment, and even the ones that have
been the longest tried and the most
successful. as for instance the cane
culture and the raising Of tobacco. are
now subject 10 somewhat changed
conditions and to newly imported dis
eases which In great degree must mod
| lily earlier methods of cultivation
Surely II there Is any region In all the
broad domain of Uncle Sam which
needs an active Experiment Station i,
Il the Hawaiian Archipelago. That We
| have such statlon-active In expert
ment-is due to the broad and enlight
ened policy Of the national Department,
of Agriculture, and there Is no reason
{ to doubt that under the intelligent di
rection OF Its present chief, with his
I corps OF able assistants, all that car
be done for Hawaiian agriculture b,
, scientific experimentation will be
| done.
Here, then, is the field of the loca
: Agricultural Society. II forms a sort
of clearing house for the discussion o.
local agricultural conditions and thu
treatment Of crops
II Is the earnest hope of the Hilt
Agricultural Society that II may do II!
Fart In the utilization OF the expert
mcnts inaugurated In Honolulu and II
the dissemination and practical ap
plication Of the methods and ideas ap
proved by the central Experiment Sta
ton.
The growing of bananas upon Ha
wall for the west coast trade Is in III
early infancy in more ways than one
and 1t Is confidently believed tina
proper facilities for ocean shipmen
and the completion of the Hilo-Kohal;
railroad will promote an increase II
the business to very respectable pro
portions indeed
One of the special meetings held b,
the society was for the purpose OF con
ferring with Mr.. c. p. Bentley, repre-
sentative of a large California canninl