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

At the station Investigations are be-
ing made relative to Hawaiian tan
barks; the cultivation of cassava for
starch and glucose; experiments with
bananas; the nature and method of
control of mango disease, he chemical
composition of grasses and forage
plants; grating and budding the man
go and alligator pear; silk raising
citrus fruits; insects injurious to crops
other than cane; and the relation of
humus to fertility.
The H. S. p. A. Experiment Station
with their magnificent equipment of
buildings sand laboratories and their
large and able staff of scientists are
amply able to care for all cane inter
ests in Hawaii.
The Board of Agriculture and For
estry are well equipped with men and
means to care for insect quarantine
and forestry problems.
The Hawaii Experiment Station can
not afford to attempt any line of work
in connection with cane, forestry or
insect quarantine. Our equipment is
not sufficient, our staff is small, our
funds too limited
There are however a number of i'm
would well repay the expenditure of
a much larger Territorial stipend than
has thus far been given US. I respect
fully request the support of the board
to the end that a larger appropria-
tfon can be given us
- TOBACCO.
I would like an appropriation of
$4,000 per annum for two years for a
continuation of the tobacco expert
ments at Pohakea, and an extension
of tobacco cultivation to other districts
in the islands where suitable tobacco
soils exist. I believe that two years
more will be sufficient to demonstrate
absolutely the practicality of tobacco
culture, up to the point where we can
say TO those who have capital to invest
that good tobacco can be produced
provided proper methods are employ
ed, and the proper kinds are planted.
SILK
I would like an appropriation of $500
per annum for the purpose of demon
strating the practicability of produc-
ing raw silk in Hawaii. In Japan,
China and Italy, the three foremost
silk producing countries of the world. |
homes of the 1aborers by the women |
and children of the household The
men are employed in other work The
production of raw silk is not considered |
sufficiently remunerative to engage the
time of the whole household.
1 believe that the promotion of the
care of silk worms by the families of
plantation laborers on lands above the
stable labor conditions on the planta-
tions, IN that the formation of home
would in a measure at
tach the laborer more closely 20 the
soil. If a moderately renunerative
home occupation can be provided for
the women ana children SO that the
aborer will be content to stay in one
ocality the plantations would be able
o get and keep a steadier and more
eliable class of laborers in their en-
oloy.
An appropriation for this pnynosn
Y ould need to be exempted from the
lause of the law relative to the en-
,loyment of Asiatics by the Govern
nent, both because we would have to
Employ japanese as instructors in the
Lrt of silk culture and because the la
'orers who would benefit from The es-
OF this industry would be
mainly of that nationality
COFFEE.
I would like an appropriation of $500
'er annum for two years for an inves-
igation of certain phases OF the coffee
Industry.
If coffee were sold in the worlds
markets in accordance with merit asl
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