The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-09-15


The crest cure" was applied TO our
soils az Kamehameha during June and
July. by the first of August, the elod-
diest roughly plowed fields were in
fine mellow condition, due solely to the
wonderful unsubstitutable influences
Of sun and atmosphere, and this, not
withstanding the total absence of rain
during those months, whose solvent
properties are usually considered nee
essary to bring about perfect friability
of the soil mass.
Once narrowing and cross-harrowing
quickly and completely leveled ridges
and burrows remaining from the pre-
vious rough blowing and only slightly
exposed the valuable forming humus
regarding whose development and con-
servation so much has already been
said. After narrowing, the extreme
light and mellowness of the soil neces-
STATED firming with heavy drag and
left the surface perfectly smooth and
Just sufficiently compacted.
Had rains started weeds and per-
haps puddled or at least more or less
compacted the soil, blowing would
have become necessary before seeding,
but because of the mellowness of the
soil, almost complete absence of weeds
and the splendid development of hui
mus, was blowing not only unnecessary
but might have proven positively in
furious in the destruction of the fine
humus mass.
Drills were now furrowed thirty
inches apart with light plow for the
field culture of beans and beets,-ex-
tensive planting of the former to sup
ply our three hundred odd students
with this wholesome and delicious veg
etable, and as succession is desirable
and easily maintained throughout the
year definite plot of well drained
land is set aside to permit of con-
tinuous succession of bi-monthly SOW
ings, allowing three paintings on the
same soil during the forty weeks of the
school year.
The varieties sown are Kamehame-
ha selection of the improved Golden
Wax DWARF for snap beans and
Burpees' and Henderson s dwarf limas,
to which we now eonfine ourselves at
ter several years comparative testing
of all the leading varieties. For a
more extended list of varieties suita-
BILE for Hawaiian conditions the reader
is referred to "The Vegetable Gar
DEM in January issue of this publica-
ton.
An extensive planting of fodder
beets for comparative test was made
on August 10th, the following varieties
being sown: Long Red Mangel Wur-
eel, Giant Yellow intermediate and
Golden Tankard.
These are standard sorts for stock
| feeding and unje. favorable conditions
in California yield enorm ,usly; former
trials with us have not been rs success
full as we should have wished. but at
this writing aug. 2D, the young
| plants are doing finely.
An acre has been sown to squash, the
unoecupied space between young pa
| paias set eight feet apart each way,
being utilized to good advantage.
| The old standard Hubbard variety
has been largely planted and should
produce large per cent of mature
fruits by Thanksgiving. All desiring
to produce their own squash for
Thanksgiving pies are urged to SOW
seeds Immediately.
Last year Kamehameha r m
swooped the Honolulu market with
5000 pounds, part of which sold at
from cents to 6 cents per pound or
at the rate of about $3.50 per acre for
land occupied with four months
crop (the 5000 being the product of
about one-half acre). One and half
acres of sweet corn, a Kamehameba
selection of the Mammoth sweet vari
! ETY., which it is intended to convert
into Silage, the plans for a modern
Silo (probably the first in the Ha
waiian Islands) being completed and
the construction of which will proba
bly, soon be undertaken.
Beds four feet wide with an eighteer
inch aisle between were thrown up il
the rough with large two-horse pillow
three rounds of the pillow making
by 10 inch burrows, quickly Formed
the desired beds, and greatly lessenini
the heavy hand work otherwise neces
sary.
Beginning with the first week in Au
gust, the following kinds and varieties
have been sown to date, the heavy
broadcasting of barn yard manure
earlier in the season being the only
fertilizer thus far applied. excepting {
light covering of coarse manure aftei
sowing to act as mulch:
Garden Beets.-Imp. Blood TurniI
Crosby's Egyptian, Early Eclipse.
Table Carrots.-Half Long Danvers
Ok Heart, Early Scarlet Horn, Frencl
Forcing, Collards.
Southern or Creole Cucumbers.-
Long Green.
Cucumbers.-Long Green.
Lettuce.-Calif. Cream, Morse, Pas
sion, Blk. Seeded Tennis Ball.
Okra.-White Velvet.
Onions.-( Kamehameha Grown an'
Hawaiian Grown Sets).
Onion Seeds. = Prize Taker, Rec
weathersfeld Australian Brown.
Parsley.-Fine Double Curled.
Peas.-lmproved Stratagem.
Radish.-Rose Queen, Scarlet Tur