The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-11-14

The Planters Association has issued
In the form Of a bulletin the report of
its special Experiment Station COM
mittee, transmitted to President Ten
ney of the association on October TO- by
Chairman Giffard OF the experiment
committee. The report shows the large
scope Of the work being carried on at
the experiment station i'm Honolulu and
contains as one very interesting feat
ure, an account Of the work of
the newly reOrganized chronological
division Of the station. The reports of
the entOmologists lead the committee to
to the conclusion that the cane leaf
hopper will soon be a thing OF the
past" if success is attained in the
breeding OF insects sent here from Aus
tralia and which have already begun to
propagate.
The laboratory work done during the
year is shown to have consisted OF no
less than 1917 analyses, of fertilizers
Soils water, canes, etc. This is a great
! increase over the work Of previous
years. There were SSS analyses in 1908
and Ola in 1902.
! Bulletins are to be issued showing
the results of soil examinations and the
behavior of fertilizers scientifically eX-
amined. In the agricultural depart
ment twenty different new varieties OF
cane. were planted during the year, for
EXPERIMENTATION, and seventeen differT
ent varieties previously planted were
harvested last April. A long list of ex-
periments with irrigation, tempera'
lures, fertilizers, etc, is recorded.
The report is signed by w. NJ Gift
fard, chairman; II. A. Isenberg, G. M.
RoIph, George H. Robertson, Andrew
Adams, j. NJ. Dowsett, standing com
mittee. w. NJ. Giffard, e. d. Tenney,
G. NJ. Rolph, special committee.
The committees report on the en-
tomological work is in part as follows:
Because of the seriousness of attacks
by insect pests and fungus diseases,
the Board of Trustees of the Associa-
ton determined upon the organization
of a division VI entomology i'm connec-
ton with the present experiment sta
ton. This matter being of par
amount Importance to plantation inter-
ests in general and in view of the fact
that such an establishment in connec-
ton with the station would entail con-
siderable special committee work, the
committee, consisting of Messrs, w. NJ.
Giffard, G. NJ. Rolph and E. d. lenneyr
for the purpose Of starting the new or
ganization adapting it to the general
system of the present experiment sta
ton and further, for securing the SER
| vices of competent entomologists "a
conduct the same. During the past six
/ months, the above gentlemen have
nr h.
. trustees undertaken the work cOntem-
plated in the experiment station. COM
mittees report to the trustees, and
your committee is pleased to report
that the division is now fully establish
ed with a competent staff of entomolo-
gists, and will soon be in a condition to
give practical evidences of its useful
ness TO plantation interests generally
Your comm ttee particularly wishes
p to call attention to the subdivision OF
the various departments made neces-
sary by the changes above referred to
} Up to the present, the divisions of ag.
} riculture and chemistry have had full
= sway, under one head, but your com
? mittee, with the approval of the trus-
tees, decided that, with the advent OF
| the chronological division, II would bt
more systematic and result In a better
understanding between departmental
= heads if the departments were sub-di
vded. and made entirely Independent o
J one another. The station at this tim,
is therefore divided up as follows:
! Divisions of Agriculture and Chemis
: try: c. F.. Eckart, director apd chem
list; f. G. Clark, agriculturst; $. $
Peck. list assistant chemist; f. Thomp
son, asst. chemist F. r. Werthmuller
asst. chemist; A. G. Jordan, asst. chem
list; T. Tougher, field foreman.
Division of Entomology II. c. l.
Perkins, superintendent; A. KOebele
consulting entOmologist; Alex. Craw
! consulting entomologist; G. w. Kirk
aldN. asst. entomOlOgist: 7. w TerrN