The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-17

The Territorial Legislature appro-
priated, at it's special session in June,
1894, the sum of 1928 per month to as
sist the Hawaii Experiment Station.
The sum expended from July 1 to
December 81. 1904, totals $15O9.32, as
follows:
Fer wages of foreman at the
station, at $50 per month. $500 90
Fer partial payment of salary of
chemist. at $16.66 per month. SO 90
For wages of one white laborer
at the station, at $3.50 per
month. Zzz oV
For a portion of the expense or
the tobacco experiments in
- Hamakua .--................. 9O3 S2
This item includes wages of SUI
= perintendent at 50 per day 5S5 90
Lumber and supplies ..--......., 318 81
This station has been in process of
formation for four years. In the be-
ginning we had nothing but piece
OF rocky land-a narrow strip over two
miles in length, the interested portion
thiekIy covered with kulu, lantana and
gGava-set aside for the purpose of an
experiment station by the Governor
of Hawaii. There We're no buildings,
fences. laboratories, no tools to work
with and no land cleared. The larger
share of the appropriations made by
Congress for this station during the
past four years have been used in get
ting together an equipment, place
to work and something to work with.
The experiments carried on and the
bulletins and reports published have
been accomplished rather in spite OF
obstacles than with outside assistance
and support. If the station can live
through until July 1, 1905, We will at
the beginning of the fiscal year 1906 be
provided with a moderate equipment
50 that beginning on that date the sta
ton ought to be able to put larger
proportion of the available funds into
the work of investigation and expert
3nent
The station is indebted to the Ter
ritory for it's fine new fire-proof Libra
~, Laboratory and Office building,
concrete building with iron roof, 60x3o
feet. Three thousand dollars was pro- .
vided by the Legislature for this build
ing. and about two thousand was ex-
pended from the Federal funds. The
Legislature contributed $500 for a new
dwelling. The station also supplied
some of the funds for this structure.
The station now has on the reserva-
ton near Honolulu, one concrete labor
atory building, Cor the chemist and
horticulturist; one laboratory and in
sectory for the entomologist; four
dwellings: seven Iaborer's quarters;
stables and outbuildings; one-half
mile wire fencing; over 5000 feet water
pipes. 3 in, in.. and 1 in: tanks hold
o. nAc
provements in the form of roads, trails,
grading and the partial or complete
clearing of portion of the farm. The
station owns one work horse, l car
riage horse and one saddle horse; and
one mule at HiIo.
This station has IA acres of tobac-
co at Pohakea. in Hamakua. One acre
has been covered with tent cloth.
There is a good equipment in the way
OF tool shed and seed beds, A small
shed originally intended for a tool
house has been used for a curing barn. {
This entirely inadequate structure is
now being enlarged so that We expect ]
to be able to handle the next crop
of leaf in something like a CONNER cial E
method. I
An account of the tobacco expert T
ment to date has been published in a I
recent number of the Hawaiian For
ester and Agriculturist.
The results of the first years work
indicate strongly that Hawaii can
grow high class cigar tobacco of both
wrapper and filler types.
The station has leased five acres of
land near Hilo. which is now being
planted with cacao and bananas.