Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-02-04
annual MEETING
FARMERS INSTITUTE
AgriCulturiStS Welcomed
By President
Horne
LANTERN Slices USED
70 SHOW CROP PEST
HONEY AND TOBACCO PROMISE
BIG RETuRNs-olp STYLE
STOCK EXHIBIT 40.
vOCATED

The nth annual meeting Of the
Farmers Institute of Hawaii was held
last night at Kamchamcha Schools
The Indictment weather was RESPONSE.
bic Tor u small attendance, but many
wellknown agriculturists and planters
were present. The program was open.
cd by President Perly Horne, who In
an address of welcome to the Institute.
expressed his appreciation of the work
the organization was achieving for the
agriculture Of Hawaii. He also advo-
Gated strongly the undertaking of
work which would appeal more direct.
" To the public and suggested the I'm.
aiEuration of an old.timc New Eng.
iand STOCK show, ut which not only ar.
iicultural products would he shown.
Tut also stock and dairy produce and
such industries as bread and butter
making. He emphasized particularly
inc latter feature, as by this the ladies'
oi The community would be Interested
Jared q. Smith. chairman of the In.
stitutc, then gave brief account of
the progress which had been made in
nrricu,,ur,i ,,rs,,,s u, ,,,,,.,, ,,,,,,,,,.
the five years the Institute had been
In operation. Five years ago. the sole
crop OF the Islands was sugar. Today
N NOR, o,uuor,,,,, -, ,ho non, i,,,,,,,
tries In succossfuI ororo,io, would ,,.
rupy more time than no had n, his d,s.
posaI II was MT Of course c,,,mod
that tho Farmers, institute WAS so,o,v
rcsponsibIc for tbis wond,r,,,, 5oy,,,,
ment but n had boep , most omc,,,,
factor in n Good work had also heop
done nv the tbrce scientific cultural
ips,itutiops viz Tho planters, Asso.
c,a,i,, mo Torri,ori,, prro,u -, Eor-
cs,ry and tho EedoraI Expcrimopt sto
ton. ITpon these three establishments
probabIy 500 Ooo was annually sncnt
and no ycptured IN say tbot mn oouoI
sum of money either nubIic or ,rivatc
was spcnt so we'll mr. brourbt in sucb
a, re,urn Jarod Smith tho, hrioev
enumerated Soma of tho most imnor-
tapt of the now Hawaiian crops
SisaI was one of tho older of those
new ventures Hawaiian 6hro was soc.
opd IN mono and ou,c,asscd tho Florida
and Mexican nroduct comn,oto,v Nh,
only couId uawaiio, sis,I command
speciaI prices but no believed that n
Nou,d comnete d,roc,Iv with Manila
bemp which was re,arded ,s tho hos,
fibre in the world FIR the pur,oscs for
which /, ia used A proat Jovolo,mont
M ,bis i,duo,rv w,s ,,,,ci,,,od
Rubber was now VOL established
hero rho fu,uro or ,bi, industry 4,
bripbt with nr,mise I, will no ono or
tho yre,t things of tho fu,uro and viI,
vi,bou, doubt nrovc ,vcood,,y,v rrof.
itablc
Tobocco cypcrimcpts have now boen
conduc,ed FIR rour ye,rs Tbov have
nroyod copc,usiyo,v tho nossibi,Ity of
growing high grade tobacco Tobocco
countries are always erich countries
and Mr. Smith prodicts not only the
making of much money from this nm.
dertakipp but asserts that IL will he
one of the principal instruments in de.
welcoming n permanent white popula.
tiop. We have the propcr climate and
soil reouisite TO "A tobacco country and
we only need the "know.how.- As the
growing of tobacco is one requiring
special knowledge, the training of an
Intelligent class of people In this prof.
table industry will add greatly to the