The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-12-05
FARMERS
IN SESSION

heic a well-attended ana very inter-
estlng meeting last evening at the ag-
ricultural nursery on King street, Pa
waa Papers were read by +. q.
Krauss OF Kamehameha Schools; r. s.
Hosmer. the Territorial Forester, and
Jared q. Smith. the Special Agent OF
the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
each Of which caused considerable dis
cussion and brought out valuable side
lights.
BALANCED FOOD.
Mr.. Krauss' paper on balanced food
for stock went into the science of feed
ing horses and cattle, showing the
chemical requirements of equine sys-
TENS and the relative value of various
foods. He dealt at length on the value
of the algaroba tree and especially It's
podded seed. Mr.. Krauss ventured the
assertion that "All of the concentrates
needed in Hawaii are furnished by the
algaroba tree" AS compared with bar
ley. to which it is nearly, IL not quite.
equal in food value, its cost is as $3.50
to $500. AS compared with bran,
which is valuable on account of it's
protein, and containing an equal guam
tity its cost is as 13c. for bran against
SC. for algaroba pods. Ground algaroba
is as good as oil cake, which costs
$4,000 per ton. For horse feeding, he
recommended so per cent. algaroba
pods chopped as fine as convenient and
equal proportions of wheat bran, sugar
bran and oil cake meal. The combined
food costing about $4,000 per ton, mean
ing a saving of $40 to $40 per ton. Mr..
Krauss placed the much-advertised
patent feeds in about the same cate
CORY as patent medicines, and de-
7noupced them roundly as wasteful and
Expensive, basing his assertions on bull
I letins from state agricultural colleges.
Interesting items in regard to the diff
ficulty of obtaining a machine to cut
algaroba pods were brought out, one
firm of experts on similar machines
having been unsuccessfully at work for
two years on the problem. A machine
which would grind the pods even at
the expense of $40 per ton would be
pa wing proposition, as the great value
of the bean in the pod is lost. going
RICH. through the animal, unless the
pods are chopped, and then only II per
cent. of the value is obtained.
WORK OF THE BUREAU.
M Hosmer reviewed the work Of the
Bureau of Agriculture and Forestry of
the Territory for the past year, touch
ing on the great necessity for forest
reserves and of appropriations to en-
ploy keepers therefor, describing the
four reserves now on the other islands
in addition to the oahu reserve; the
brilliant prospects, of rubber, which
he said had not yet reached a point
where he could feel justified in saying
its success was assured, as 1t was too
new here for that. He also spoke of
the very valuable reference library at
}''the nursery" as the place is still pop
! ularly termed, although 1t is fitted with
up-to-date offices which make the old
nursery building look like transfor-
nation scene to one who has not been
in 1t since before the offices were in
stalled. The speaker laid particular
stress on the library and urged all who
are interested to make the fullest and
freest possible use Of 1t at all times.
Mr.. Hosmer thinks that commercial
timber such as fir, spruce and pine
can be grown on the higher elevations,
say 5000 to 5000 feet, where the cattle
now seldom go. He said the forest re-
serves should be extended in the in
terests of all the people. The planters
were conserving their forests, but all
Industries WOulu require WdltT anu
forest reserves were a direct source of
water supply conservation.
THE RUBBER INDUSTRY.
w. w. Hall spoke of the rubber trees
now growing on Maui. He says his
company planted about 10000 trees on
Arbor Day, which he thinks is the rec
ord Arbor Day plant for this Terri
tory. He remarked that his trees were
doing very nicely, some planted last
February being now fourteen feet high.
Asked by Mr.. Smith If he could swear
to it, loosely, he gravely replied, IT
saw them"
Jared Smith in presenting his paper.
which is given in full below, said that
he had been at work getting up for
the Promotion Committee a list Of in
dustries that were practical here and
found among them cotton, vanilla, to-
bacco, pineapples, sugar cane, coffee,
mangoes, alligator pears. citrus fruit.
rubber, poultry, dairying, sheep and
hog raising and many others.
AGRICULTURE IN HAWAII.
have chosen this subject as the
title for paper because agriculture is
HawaiPs all-in-all and one may in
discussing 1t safely touch upon any
phase of the social or political situa-
ton and yet not transgress its bounds.
In Hawaii agriculture. is synonymous
with politics and State policy, private
and public business, commerce and
the practice of the professions. Every
phase of our social life is a part of
it, not to be separated from, and alb
solutely dependent upon 1t.
Hawaii has ALWAYS haen deDendent
upon one industry. First, it was
sandal wood, then supplying wheat
and potatoes to the California gold
miners, next the whaling industry,
then a short regime of pulu and cof-
fee. and finally sugar. 1t has been su-
gar so long and to such profit that we
have almost forgotten that land
which has only one industry is weak
and vitality vulnerable. Whatever af-
fects our one industry influences the
whole social and political fabric.
When prices rise or seasons are good
we are all prosperous but a shortage