The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-05


for the years product, and as 800 is {
liberal estimate for feed and care, sh'
netted US a little better than $500. This
merely shows possibilities. Probably
your herd of twenty to fifty cows would
average less for some time to come
they nave with US.
one more concrete example: our
statistics show an expenditure of SS6.-
CCG for oranges from California alone
in less than a year. Now, L am as
loyal Il Californian as native son of
the Golden West can be, and yet l
must admit that I've tasted as we'll
Favored Hawaiian-gr grown oranges as
California ever shipped TO US. u m d
little suspicious she hasn't set US rae
best she grows, thought The only
trouble is mat they contain d lew 100
many seeds compared to the Washing
ton navel, bur a Burbank would breed
out these kHpn-essentiaI seeds within a
few years. That is what we need in
Hawaii. a Burbank; yes, there is
work OF a high order for a Burbank
among US I wish he could b Inauc-
ed to visit US, if only for a month or
two. Such a visit would repay the eX-
rense hu1dredfold in inspiration
alone. And his cooperation in the
slightest degree would be priceless to
our horticultural interests. Can not
something be done in this direction by
our Commission of Agriculture and
Forestry 1t Is worth while.
Has it ever occurred to you that our
very isolation might be made one of
our greatest asses in an agricultural
way? The opportunities for the ere
alton Of new tropical fruits and the
Improvement OF cid varieties is iutensi-
fed because Of this seclusion, which
is one Of our best guards against con-
tamination. Imagine the great gains
that must accrue from the introduction
of each new and improved fruit; the
same would be true Of live stock. For
example, note the wealth that has
come to the Isle of Jersey because OF
her spiendjd cattle thai could not have
been maintained under any other con-
d1tlon than such as they and We pos
sess. II IS field as yet unexp,ored
IN our Territory. VIII not our Legis-
iature Show its keen insight and pub
&c sp1ritedness in dealing generously
with our Experiment station, if we
urge upon it the necessity for the es-
tabllshment of a plant breeding gar
den in connection with the valuable
work already undertaken? Ten thou
sad dollars could not be better ex-
pended than to give this line of work
a start.
new era is before us if the Gov
eminent viii lend hand. [ would
further suggest that our Board of
nfI3 G Cf a ItrI,.a
astry enlarge upon their official jour-
ria waiian Forester and Ag-
It is good as far as it
goes, but it doesn't go far enough. The |
editor deserves great credit for the |
publication he is giving us under adj |
'erse conditions. I doubly appreciate |
1is work in. this connection from my |
of the difficulty he has in
getting the stuff I've been contribu-
ing to it's pages from month to month.
But when / apologize. as L sometimes
in moved to do, he tells me that is
are even worse than
ou. If that is true, he has my
eartfelt sympathy. 1t seems to me a
after the style of THE Ag-
fcultural Gazette of New South
Wales would be of great educational
alue to our small farmers and stimu-
ate the interest of those who are ]
uggish in the matter. Such a publ
alton would cost more, but it is worth,l
1ore, and L believe the subscription
SITS could be doubled if the journal
ere enlarged and illustrated so that
s cost became twice as much as at
resent
This matter Of agricultural education
nd training is a matter the Govern
tent can well afford to give a little
lore attention to. If the curriculum
our rural schools is already over
AIDED, then have an expert educate.
rune it down and graft or bud an /
grIcuitIiral tWig here and there A
pod way to develop an agricultural
eopfe is to train our youth in the |
rinciples and best practices of agri-
llture. Farming is more and more
scoming business and profession re-
airing the shrewdness of law, the !;
clinical training OF medicine. the up :
ehtness of theology, and as much ;,
aims and resourcefulness as ped !
sosT. These are good foundation 7
ones, and we can not too early lay h
lem for the good of our youth Y
| am sometimes asked: IF agricul- .
re is such a good thing and your c
hool is such wonderful place, why /
thunder don't you turn out some n
'od farmers?' Wen, so we do-fuIly I
20 per cent of those who specialize b
agricultUte-andt that is a hundred t
r cent. more than some of our col Ii
ses are turning out Of good lawyers. c
'ctors- theologians and pedagogs. It's Il
cause God made farmers Il
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