The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-04

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for papayas on the Pacific Coast ana l
believe that the production of this
wholesome fruit for shipment is going
r. he a big industry in these islands.
This list might be almost indefinitely
extended. I have not touched on the
matter of fertilizer experiments, lrri-
cation experiments. or the cultivation
of many crops such as vanilla and the
roselle.
think that the Farmers Institute is
entitled to congratulate itself on ac-
count of its successful agricultural fair
held in cooperation with the Pouitry-
mems Association, and I hope that
each year will see bigger and better
exhibition of Hawaiian products.
/ These are in part the results OF SIX
years work by three scientific instl-
| tntfons. the H S P. A. Experiment
/ Station. the Hawaii Experiment Sta
ton and the Board Of Agriculture ana
Forestry AS to the exact cost of the
work, 1 do not know, but am sure
! that the amount expended represents
only a very small percentage of the
whole financial results. Taking the
cost as 100000 per annum, I believe
that no other hundred thousand dollars
expended from public or private reve-
nues has yielded larger money returns.
The developments outlined as part
of the result of six years work are
good and / know that if the people of
| Hawaii will continue their support they
| will be better as each year progresses,
! but there is still one side where Ha-
wall is weak The logical outcome or
| this active scientific investigation must
be the establishment of an agricultural
college, an institution for the training
of men to do this kind of work. / be-
| Iieve that YOU will all acknowledge that
| the work already done is good. I be-
lieve that the people of Hawaii will
heartily support an effort on the part
of the coming Legislature to round out
complete and proper development of
scientific agriculture in Hawaii by the
establishment of well-endowed insti-
| tuition which shall teach young men
and young women not only how to be-
come scientific investigators, but to be
able to support themselves and add to
the wealth of Hawaii by direct appli-
/ cation of their knowledge to the soil.
mehameha Sextet rendered a Hawaiian
number that won for them spontaneous
applause. 4.
A number of supreme interest was
the lecture of DR.. Cobb of the Hawai-
ian Sugar Planters Experiment Sta
ton. His talk was upon the insects
and fungi that are SO damaging to
plant life in Hawaii. His remarks
were illustrated by lantern slides,
which brought wildly into view the
| insects and the results of their depre-
datfons. BY a slide he showed the
danger to the pineapple industry
through what laymen call 'just rot"
but which he showed to be the effects
Of fungus attack. The Doctor said in
part:
notion that most organic things are
more or less inherently frail, and that
they decay or rot for reasons to be
sought in this frailty.
Fruits rot. Timber decays. 1t is often
assumed that these occurrences are due
to inherent tendencies of the things
that rot Or decay.
1t is true that all living things have
definite period beyond which they
cannot continue in the form of one in
dividual Our own limit has been set
at three score and ten years to four
score years, or thereabout Reaching
this limit the human organism runs
down. Appetite fails, and food ceases
to nourish as it formerly did, The
muscles become enfeebled and the
| nerves no longer respond to the old
stimuli Recollection fades, and as it
has been beautifully phrased we ..fail
on Sleep"
But this contamination is remarkable
on account of its rarity rather than it's
commences. AS a rule before a man
can live out his allotted span he is car
rled off by some accident or disease.
He dies not because of some inherent
| quality but because of some outside
cause. He loses his life by accident,
or is carried off by some parasitic or
ganism such as that of consumption,
cancer, plague or smallpox.
| Wishing to combat an erroneous no
| ton by drawing a parallel I take our
| own life history as one part of the il
| luStratlon because it is one with which
all are more less familiar. / think
| you will have little difficulty in as
senting TO the statements I have made.
Now what is true of mankind in this
respect is equally true of all things or
ganic. The losses due to rot and decay
are as rule not due to something that
was inherent in the organic matter that
rotted or decayed. In other words it
was due to the attack of some organ
| ism or to some accident, and was not
something that was at that time in
| evitable. These organic things rot, de-
| cay or otherwise perish, as a rule, long
| before their allotted span, just as we
| do. And it is just as true of these
| things that their life can be prolonged
as it is that we could prolong human
life much beyond the present statistical
| limit if we would only live up to what the
more advanced among us wildly real
| ize TO be demonstrated fact. No one
| doubts that if all the individuals of this
or any other community would live up
to the standard of cleanliness and mod
Grafton easily shown to be best for us
the mortality statistics would be much
altered. The amount of suffering
| would he T11J1ch IpSc nd e,,,,,