The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-04-19
A STATION
ON TANTALUS
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tFrom Thursdays AdvertiscdD
Tho Board OF Commissioners OF Agri-
culture and Forestry met at their
rooms at the Government Nursery on
king street yesterday afternoon. II
was the first meeting with the newly
chosen president. w. NJ. Ginard. In the
chair. There were present. also. C. s.
Holloway. secretary; q. p. wilder, l..
G. Kellogg. ID. II. Isenberg, with II. S.
Hosmer. Superintendent OF Forestry;
y. Craw, Superintendent of Entomol-
ogy; V. A. Norgaard, Territorial Vet
erinarian, and Jared G. Smith. special
agent in charge OF the Government
Experiment Station. The most impor-
tant features of the smeeting was the
reports of c. S. Holloway, of the De-
partment of Agriculture and Forestry;
of Alexander Craw, Superintendent of
Entomology, and David Haughs, For
est Nurseryman, for the Board of For
estry.
Mr. Holloways report covered the
period from April 3 up to date. During
the past two weeks he has been con-
tinuously busy with the routine work
of the department and with two re-
ports on forest reserve projects which
Will be submitted to the Committee on
Forestry in few days. An applica-
ton for forest planting had been re-
ceived from the Wahiawa Water Com
pany, the district to be visited this
week that examinations might be made
on the ground. Mr.. Haughs, forest
nurseryman, had made several trips
to Nuuanu valley to oversee the trans
Atherton property made necessary by
the construction of new pipe from
the Nuuanu dam. The plants that had
to be disturbed will be replaced when
the pipe has been laid.
A planting plan has been completed
for the Catholic Mission lands at Ka-
lihi valley which had been placed in
the hands of Father Adelbert Rielan-
der.
AT the nursery 1t was reported that
the filling in Of crosswalks has been
and soil is now being carted
to fill up to the level of King street
sidewalk, sloping gradually down to
the parallel walk in the nursery. Prep
arations are being made for other i'm
provements, such as the laying of wood
and top dressing walks with
coral. Seed collecting is being con-
tinued, packages being made up for
sale and exchange.
Mr.. Jared Smith of the Govt. Elk |
perimental station, reported that |
through the cooperation of Mr.. James |
b. Castle two acres Of land We're being |
cleared on Tantalus where experiments |
could be made with island fruits, such |
as oranges, lines, lemons and alligator |
pears. The plan was to secure col
lection of the best stock and graft from |
these About thirty trees had been
set out and the planting of Others
would progress rapidly. Much inter-
est was shown in this experiment, as
! promises Improvement in the quality
If fruits already cultivated.
There was "a good deal OF discuss on
'ver the more rigid inspection of plants
n ports of entry on the other islands.
,ase in Honolulu but elsewhere, where
Inspectors We're not men trained to the
work pests We're admitted unknowingIy.
There was IA good deal of surreptitious
of plants, the President
that should be checked.
MR.. CRAW'S REPORT.
The report of Mr.. Alexander Craw
inspections of infected fruit
vas of the greatest Importance. 1t
hould furnish food for reflection for
hose disposed to think that the work
# government entomologist Is a
waste of public money. The pests
which he was SO fortunate as to arrest
n transit, IL left undlsturbed, were
apable of causing thousands of dol .
ars' damage. Mr.. Craw reported that ;
uring the past two weeks fourteen
team and sailing vessels had arrived ,
n port from without the Territory. In 4
hese vessels were found 56i3 packages
[ fruits and vegetables, and eight {
ases and bales of trees and plants
lalf of the latter We're destined for
ne other islands but were inspected a
nd treated here. Four hundred c
'ates of potatoes-which were received =
hSc alI' SIdW arrival III t1OnOlulu, |
ere found to be seriously infested
18th the caterpillars of the potato
9th Uita solanella). The crates were
dered back on board and the Captain
as instructed to see that they were C
'opped overheard when the vessel was x
10 day from port, a sworn affidavit, e
tested by the Captain, first officer a
Id purser to be delivered to the In [;
ector by return mail. The potatoes, Ct
r. Craw reported, were so seriously
fected that not one could be found, ei
all those inspected, without one or az
ore worms and some We're so badly v,
tackled that not an inch of sound w
Der was left. The caterpillars APP CO
AIRED to select and prefer the depres-
ms around the eye of the potato In ri;
itch to spin their cocoons. Photo di
Apis were shown to give a clearer OF
"a of the destructiveness of the pest m,
cases of garlic which arrived on FIR,
, same vessel with the potatoes, were to,
o found 10 be infected with a small ed
,wn beetle. although garlic is a plant an
herto supposed 10 be free from in Co
is. These cases We're ordered on on
ird again, and the Inspector in San
MISUNDERSTANDING of to,
ir condition. Among the freight of ma