The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-02-06

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The work Of the Experiment stations
is so well known that need not say
anything about them.
The Industrial High Schools are Of
so recent development that venture
some explanation. These schools are
located In the country. and In the VIII
leges and country towns. They are
In response TO a demand from the
farmers. There win be classroom
work and laboratory work. shop work
and farm work. The courses will lead
to the professions, to business, the
sciences, the trades and to the farms.
In short. these schools are intended
to do for each industry what the
Manual Training High Schools are do
ing for the trades
There is growing appreciation of
elementary work in the sciences. nature
study, some call 1t, and a demand for
trained teachers to do this work as II
should be done The Chicago Normal
School has just arranged for training
teachers for this work, on a new basis
which probably puts 1t in the lead OF
other institutions. Now comes the
question as to whether the Agricul-
tural Colleges will long permit nor
NAL school graduate to rank higher
than the college graduates.
I found the United States Agricul-
tural Experiment Station men very
sensitive about model farms. But /
am willing to risk my reputation as a
prophet on the statement that the
model farm will be the next step in
agricultural development. And here
are my reasons; A large percentage OF
farmers can not translate the college
bulletins and the experiment station
bulletins into farm language and farm
practice. This must be done for them.
And the place where 1t is done will be
the model farm. And IL agriculture
continues to develop as we hope to see
1t develop, the model farm Will con-
tinue to be an advantage even to the
college-bred men. just as hospital is
an advantage to physicians who wish
to keep abreast of their profession The
business of the agricultural college
should be to develop the science oi
agriculture and so 1t will always be II
advance of the agricultural stations
And the stations Will always be in ad.
vance of the model farm. And the
model farm will be in advance of the
great majority of the farmers, trans
lating the work of the colleges and
stations into farm practice.
The day for Individual effort is al
most gone. No greater misfortune
not even the misfortunes of war, has
come to the human race than that OF
individual effort, and this is especially
true In agriculture. Through the ages
each farmer has been obliged to fight
his own battles with pests and soil ant
climate conditions. What waste OF
wealth this system has wrought What
waste OF energy 1t has caused. What
slavery II has entailed on successive
generations. What desertions from the
land 1t is responsible for. What con-
gested misery in cities 1t has produced
No. the day for individual effort is fast
passing away. Collective effort is the
new order.
In concentration of capital and labor
and management and In commercial
botany, entomology, chemistry and
cultivation of the soil the planters OF
these islands have set an example fol
the world. What the planters expert.
ment station is to the individual
planter, the model farm will be to the
small farmer. All classes of men are
interested, whether they know II OF
not. Greater production and better
products mean as much to the bushes.
man and the professional man as tc
the farmer. 1t is simply n matter oil
all men knowing this on the one hand
and that the agricultural colleges are
the source from which must come the
science of agriculture on the other
more agricultural colleges, better
equipment for them, and fuller service
from them.
This all men are learning with an
intensity of purpose that no thoughtfu
man can misunderstood or fail to ap-
preciate.
SlSAL AND IT'S PRODUCTS.
There was a song from the Glee
Club, and then Mr.. VIM. Weinrich, Jr.
delivered a most interesting lecture or
sisal and other commercial fibres
showing samples of the products from
various parts OF the world. Mr.. Wein.
rich began his talk with short sketch
OF the history of sisal. 1t was first
used he said as nearly as could be
learned, in 100 for hauling great
stones. 1t was taken-the plant and
not the fibre, from Yucatan, where II
first came into use, to Florida in 1886
and from Florida was brought to the
Hawaiian Islands in 1893. a peculiar
difference, as shown by the speaker !
samples of the plant, was that the
sisal from Yucatan was spiney along
the edges, and of smaller leaf than the
Hawaiian. This gave the island prod
uct the double advantage that 1t was
easier to handle. so that laborers
could work in 1t with less trouble, and
1t had also a longer fibre. which in
creased It's commercial value. On the
other hand, the life of the Hawaiian
plant was only from eight to ten years
while the Yucatan lives from sixteen
to twenty.
Mr.. Weinrich said that he was now
engaged, with the great Burbank, in