The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-15

FILLER NOT later than this week.
The crest cure' was applied to oul
soils at Kamehameha during June ant
July. By the first of August, the clod
diest roughly plowed fields were il
fine mellow condition, due solely to the
wonderful unsubstitutable influences
of sun and atmosphere, and this, not
outstanding the total absence of rain
properties are usually considered nee
essary to bring about perfect friability
of the soil mass.
Once narrowing and narrowing
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 frming with a 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 hu-
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 a 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 a 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 a Kamehame-
ha selection of the improved Golden
Wax (Dwarf) for snap beans and
Burpees' and Henderson IS dwarf limas,
to which we now confine ourselves af-
ter several years comparative testing
of all the leading varieties. For a
more extended list of varieties sulta-
BILE for Hawaiian conditions the reader
is referred to ''The Vegetable Gar
DEM in January issue of this publica
tion.
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 Tankald.
These are standard sorts for stock
feeding and unje- favorable conditions
in California yield enorm 'raly; former
strfals with US have not been us success |
full as we should have wished, but ati
this writing (Aug. 21), the young !
plants are doing finely.
An acre has been sown to squash, the |
unoccupied 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 farm
swooped the Honolulu market with
5000 pounds, part of which sold at
from cents to cents per pound or
at the rate of about $3.50 per acre for
land occupied with four months
crop 1.-THE 5000 being the product of
about half acre). One and half
acres of sweet corn, a Kamehameha
selection of the Mammoth sweet vari-
ETY., which it is intended to convert
into Silage, the plans for 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 eighteen
inch aisle between were thrown up IN
the rough with large two-horse pillow,
bv II inch burrows, quickly formed
the desired beds, and greatly lessening
the heavy hand work otherwise neces-
sary.
Beeinning with the first week in Au-
gust, the following kinds and varieties
have been sown to date, the heavy
of barn yard manure
earlier in the season being the only
fertilizer thus far applied, excepting a
light covering of coarse manure after
sowing to act as a mulch:
Garden Beets.-Imp. Blood Turnip
Crosby's Egyptian, Early Eclipse.
Table Carrots.-Half Long Danvers,
Ok Heart, Early Scarlet Horn, French
Forcing, Collards.
southern or Creole Cueumbers.-
Long Green.
Cueumbers.-Long Green.
Lettuce.-Calif. Cream, Morse, Pas |
ZION, Blk. Seeded Tennis Ball.
Okra-White Velvet.
Onions-( Kamehameha Grown and
Hawaiian Grown Sets).
Onion Seeds. Prize Taker, Red
Neathersfield Australian Brown.