The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-19


ment Station Committee, making
namnflet of sixty-six pages, presented
by w. NJ. Gfffard, chairman, occupied
the attention of the Hawaiian Sugar
Planters Association at the forenoon
session on Friday.
The report proper dealt with station
matters in general In the laboratories
of the division of chemistry the work
had increased very considerably during
the past two years, necessitating not
only an increase in the number of
chemists employed, but also an aug
mentation of the salaries paid them.
The committee draws particular atten-
ton to the directors report in connec-
ton with the close conformity between
manufacturers guarantees and Expert
1nent Station findings with regard to
fertilizers.
Under the head of the agricultural
division it is stated that there had
been a difference of opinion among
some managers of plantations relative
to the value of results obtained from
the field work at the station. A vote
was taken by correspondence upon the
utility of the station, which resulted ia
twenty-six out of forty-five voting in
favor of continuing the station. Ten
oh ic1af
were in favor of a Hilo branch, two
expressed no opinion and three did not
reply to the circular.
The committee made the following
recommendations to the trustees of the
Associ ation: ID That the field and
other work be continued. and that a
skilled agriculturist be employed to-
visit the plantations regularly, working
in conjunction with the station and
under instructions of its director (2)
That the Association establish a divi-
staff of experienced entomologists
and one plant pathologist. (S) That
the Association purchase or lease for
the joint use of the divisions of en-
tomology and agriculture an additional
area of land on which to erect offices,
laboratories, insect rooms and propa-
eating houses, also for extending the
area now under cultivation.
The committee had appointed E. G.
Clarke as agriculturist. He had the
advantage of extended experience under
DIR. Stubbs OF the Louisiana station,
as well as under DR.. Maxwell and
Messrs Blouin and Eckart of the Homo
lulu station. Mr.. Clarke was to estab-
lish sub-stations in the several island
districts and periodically visit them for
the purpose of cooperating with manag-
ers in experiments. Already, at the
writing of the report, sub-stations had
been started at Waiakea and Laupa-
hoehoe, Hawaii, and the agricuIturist
had begun visiting the plantations in
the Hilo district.
The extension of the station, with
the erection of needed buildings, had
been carried out. Within the past few
months the director of the station had
begun the lSSulIiS VI
on the subjects of his experiments. The
director had been in communication
with DIR. Maxwell, as a result of which
new seed canes were being imported
from Queensland. a limited amount of
seed cane was distributed among the
plantations for trial, and there seemed
little doubt that a number of the vari-
cites would in the near future replace
he oh nj Nd Do
At present the Experiment Station
staff is divided up as follows:
Divisions of Agriculture and Chemis-
try-C. F. Eckart. director and chem
list; E. C. Clarke, agriculturist; S. S.
Peck, first assistant chemist; F.
Thompson, F. R. Werthmuller and A.
C. Jordan, assistant chemists; T.
Tougher, field foreman.
Division of Entomology-R. c. I. Per-
kins, superintendent; A. Koebele and
Alex. Craw, consulting entomoIogists:
G. w. Kirkaldy, F. w. Terry and Otto
NJ. SweZey, assistant entornologists
The quest of a plant pathologist and
the expedition of Messrs. Koebele and
Perkins to Australia are mentioned in
the general report.
Reports are appended from Director
Eckart on the chemical and agricul-
tural divisions, and c. w. Kirkaldy,
on the chronological division with a
supplementary report from F. w. Ter
ry. Papers furnished in appendices are
| the following: Varieties of Cane, by
c. F. Eckart; Recent Experiments with
| Saline Irrigation, by c. F. Eckart:
| History of the Occurrence of the Sug-l
| arcane Leaf-Hopper in Hawaii by
r. c.. L. Perkins: On Some Disea ses of
Cane Specially Considered in Relation
| to the Leaf-Hopper Pest and to the
Stripping of Cane, by r. c. L. Per-
kins.
DISCUSSION FOLLOWED.
Though after the reading of the re-
port not much time remained until
noon recess, an interesting discussion
| took place.
Mr. Eckart believed Moir's white
and Demerara No 1T canes ppirbt