The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-11-23


the fee words the actual losses in few special
tacks OF well>nown fungus disease OF the potato The
losses have reached many millions OF dollars in single
year say nothing OF the dreadful loss OF life following
the failure of OF the principal foods OF the people
The coffee industry nearly annhilated in Cey1on
estimated that losses averaged FIVE million
dollars yearly At the end OF this time the industry
losses due single crop disease, the
rust of wheat varies from two to ten million dollars
In Australia in the IS9o91 the losses from similar
disease of wheat estimated at over twelve million dol
The losses from the crops the three principal cereals
OF Prussia estimated total from fifty hundred mil
lion dollars annually.
ed million dollars These losses occurred in
parativey short time.
in the United from three hundred million
dollars ner annnn The best Judges place the losses due ~
fungi lower figure than those due to insects At the
present time the Department of Agriculture Washington
is engaged on plant disease survey anticipate that this
survey which will be the result of careful compilation or:
authoritative will result in showing the losses due
to the fungus diseases of crops millions
of dollars annually.
To come nearer home known you through
the agency of diseases the cane crop in various parts of the
world has been subject in losses Which could be
definitely estimated and these have reached such
proportions very special attention 1t has
been inequenty the in districts of
various parts of the world have become alarmed the
losses due certain diseases begin fear that their
industry doomed this only instance
the Rnd Disease of the West Indian Islands,
Cumming disease in certain portions OF Australia and that
of canegowng in Java, the disease called Sereh
proof Forthcoming with regard your
own feelings in this matter than the establishment here
through the Planters Association of Special Division of
the Experiment Station deal with these diseases All these
arguments arise from definite instances where large losses
have been sustained but there another loss perhaps equally
great that commonly escapes attention
of understand well enough know
that the incidence of indirect least resented by
people Whether this is good thing have intention of
arguing the fact is enough for purpose Such
is submitted to the readily because it is levied in
directly little here and little there in such obscure
that most people are unaware that they paying
it all.
The small annual ncipent
tacs OF fungus diseases may be compared to tax levied III
indirect If of them ALL we have
look these losses and inevitable When taken
altogether they real drain the agricultural produc
If they could be stopped should
have succession of years OF plenty If not an actual gu
Should your interest be aroused by these statistics taken
rather random it will certainly be further stimulated it
be diminished Experience has proved that such is the
In fact of the remarkable of the changes
agricultural practice the changed attitude of the
a that the chances to Which refer have taken nace n the
growing o. vegetables hardly
garded complete that does include special machinery
for the fighting of fungus pests The saving thus effected
very materially profits of
Suppose be possible increase the crop of Ha
against fungus diseases of cane we should than effect saw
ing of million dollars annually believe such saving
easily possible Should this will be justified
annual expenditure OF forty thousand dollars until
the full operation, when should be possible
continue them at smaller cost In making this estimate
reckoning that be had four per cent and
that the saving the entire crop of the Territory
million dollars per compared with the present
feel that l am within safe limits
Another of showing the Importance of the subject
carefully agriculture really my opin
the agriculture altogether happy fear
the of that word has done something towards the
uation of serious The word points the soil as it
that the principal element the growth of crops The
word the cultivation of the fields, while the fact
is the plants that cultivated Agriculture word
that indicate that the soil is the important
thing the growth of The fact is that plants the
important thing. The soil the main thing
agriculture than the bed of its principal feature
The moving of water the principal thing. It is the
that furnish power float ships it is the
that WHY the desert The field the soil bears
such relation the of living that flow through
year after the bed of river bears the
streaming through it.
This is by idea. Our progress agri-
culture will bear the hrmness with which
lay hold of this idea that the plants after all the main
thing in the growing of crops.
the plant is the main element in crop production must
the greatest pains understand the plant We
understand anatomy and physiology and its pathology