The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-31
FARMERS At
KAMEHAMEHA
The Institute has Very
Successful
Time.

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session yesterday afternoon and even
ing at the Kamehameha Schools. New
officers for the ensuing year were elect
| ed, and many interesting and valuable
| papers were read on various subjects
vital to the agricultural life of the Is
/ lands.
Chief among the papers was one
| prepared by Prof. Krauss of Kane
! hameha Schools on the Seasons for
Planting" giving minute data for each
month in the year. The report of the
| secretary on the work done in 1908, the
report oe the Hno Agricultural So
ciety, and President Jared Smiths adj
dress were also heard.
The afternoon session was devoted
purely to business, comprising the cleo
| ton of officers and discussion of ways
and means to put the Institute on a
stronger basis, and the evening session
was devoted to the reading Of reports,
discussions, informal talks on peril
nent agricultural subjects and in lis
tening to excellent music rendered by
the Kamehameha Glee Club, under the
direction of Stanley Livingston.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At the afternoon session the matter
of the informal organization of the In
stitute was preached. 1t was shown
that the Institute had limited mem
bership and the time had arrived when
it was desirable to have a more def
mite organization than in the past. A
committee to go over the bylaws and
constitution, consisting of the presi-
dent, ex-officio, Byron 0. Clark, J. T.
Crawley and J. d. Dole was appointed.
The committee will report at the next
meeting.
The Institute has ascertained that
aside from the legislative appropria-
ton made for the purpose of printing
reports, a small amount of money has
been needed for incidentals and it was
voted that there should be two classes
of members, active and honorary, the
former to pay dues of 81 a year
The election of officers resulted as
follows: President, Jared G. Smith;
Vice President, Byron o. Clark; Sec
rotary and Treasurer, J. E. Higgins.
Mr. Clark assumes the office made
vacant by Mr. Sedgwick, who is now
in Peru. and Mr.. Higgins the Office
held by D. L. Van Dine, whose duties
at the Experiment Station have be-
come such that they require all his
available time.
EVENING SESSION.
The evening session was attended by
the Kamehameha School cadets and a
number of farming enthusiasts, with
President Smith in the chair. The
session was opened with selections by
the Glee Club of the School.
Principal Dyke of the schools spoke
of farming as it touched the Kameha-
meba Schools. He said that every
Kamehameha boy was a farmer In
fact, the school had the most repre-
sentative body of farmers in Hawaii.
Every boy was now taking a greater
interest in agricultural pursuits than
at any other time.
Three years ago the school had an
agricultural department which was
rather weak, but being pioneer work it
was absolutely necessary. Kameha-
meha has now one of the best vege-
table gardens in the Islands, one of
the finest dairies and some of the
finest hogs.
Some people assert that small farm
ing cannot be maintained in the Ha-
waiian Islands," he said. But
know from ample evidence that it can
be, and successfully. The people of
Hawaii have been agriculturists for
hundreds of years and they have al
ways lived on the fruits of that agrf- |
cultural industry
!. President Smith in reply said that he
hoped most of the young men before !
him would grow up to be farmers in |
every sense of the word, and lie |
thought that what Mr.. Dyke said in |
regard to the effect of the develop |
ment of agricultural interests in Ha- |
wall was entirely true.
Byron O. Clark said a few words to
the boys. The agricultural interests
of the Islands depended upon them |
The boys should be the basis of the !
lands set apart that they could OBJ !
tain for farming homes. There was
no advantage in giving them an agri-
cultural education unless they had the
means to put it to practical use. He
said that the Kamehameha boys were
enjoying advantages in getting
knowledge of farming, of which the !,
white boys here We're practically denied
at present.
Mrs. Nakuina said that the Hawaiian
people in the old days We're agricul-
turists and fishermen. The Kane
nameha boys We're gaining more knowl-
edge in agricultural matters than she
had received as the daughter of a
'ich man. She told them to make I'D
their minds to plant and dig and then
apply 10 the government for land upon
which to build them homes and carry, |
IN small farming. She referred TO
her son being a prominent legislator
ana said she would use her influence
With him to have the legislature make
provision for lands TO be set apart
or the boys to put their school knowl- {
'dse into practice. She was certain
nat the government would gladly {
leip the boys. The small farmers (
we're the backbone of the country and
he boys should he that backbone
When they titled the soil and made {. |