The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-08-06
ENTOMOLOGISTs
FROM MOL0kAI

tFroN Mondays AGNtrRs7rr.f
The trio o. ensomeIexls5s whe went
10 the American sugar Cen.panyss
Ranch las, week. returned yesterday
morning BY the Iw&lanx They are
Prof. ErosEatt. the Australian catoaio;-
oKsSt. who j. on a tour 60 IN. world ~
the study % beneficial Insects. u. l.
Van Dine % the United States A<rl-
cultural Experiment station. and ia
sob KOtlnSSy % the Beard % Agricui-
ture and Forestry. Prot. FroExats
went especially to study The insect
parasites that have troubled the sheep
on the ranch - much. aad the methSd
% treating Il which has been found
beneficial on this ranch. The sheep IN
daStry being an important ore in Aus
traiia. Mr. Van Dine went % Study
the bee industry. among ether ihings.
N0nd Mr., KotinSky vent ~ establish
colonies % the Arizona horn ny pa=-
aSite.
Prof. FrCggatt was very much inter
ested IN what he saw. AID proved a
most excellent horseman and hard
rider. he went al over The ranch IN
his Investigations
The bee industry Is very prosperous
and apparently very profitable On this
ranch. The company has a tin shop
where II makes its owa containers IN
which 70 snip IT'S honey. There j. no
sugar cane on Moiokai 50 that there
Is none OF the aphidS thar ses@lt IN
heneydew honey. The algaroba fiour-
iSheS everyvhere up 20 an elevation of
thousand feet and is gradually 60
ing higher. This furnishes the staaie
for the bees - that the honey pro-
duced here is uniform in quality AMI
contains no honeydew honey
The poStponement 81 the sailing OF
the Iwalani from here. rwensy-four
hours. without notice 10 me 50 that
I could have gone on the gauna La.
said Mr.. kotinsky. resulted Il many
OF the horn fly parasites dying be-
fore they reached there. \ day earlier
would have resulted in a much larEer
colony being distributed. However. I
got one colony over there and dis
triou1ed, and 1 took with me a propa-
Sating cage in which another colony
IS Matching cut. and left Instructions
there with Mr.. Monroe as 70 zheir
handling. Mr.. Monroe has a great DEAF
o. information about The lie history
and habits OF insects. and I have ev-
cry reason 10 believe this colony.
when IL matches out VIII be handled
effectively
7 shall a. once devote a great deal
more time 20 the propagation Of This
parasite. For while I am not Yet ready
70 say that it has been demonstrated
that it viii abate the horn fiy pesr.
It is very promising. And il they need
il anywhere they need it on the Mo-
loAai rancA- I saW horn flies seize
on animals there in such sWarms as
had not imagined II was possible.
They bother the sheep a good deal. ION.
Sometimes producing open sores where
the skin is bare in spots from the at
taeks. Prof. Froggatt went there To
study.
At Charles Bellina's PaIoIo ranch.
and al Paul Isenberg's Waialae ranch
where these parasites have been COL
onized longest. the horn nv pest Is
most materially abated, presumably
because OF the parasite. I am sure il
Is parasite Of flies. laying lis eggs
[ in the flies in the maSgot stage. And
1 know that il attacks horn flies. But
whether II is SO specifically horn fly
parasite as that it may be expected u
materially reduce the pest. cannot yet
De said 70 be demonstrated.
otto Meyer carries on small farm
ing on AIolokai on quite an extensive
scale He has a considerable area In
potatoes and ships them TO Honolulu.
He is raising muskmelons and canra-
loupes. something that are not raised
anywhere else in the islands. I believe.
In order TO do II ne has TO protect
them from the melon fly with netting.
But he has quite an area thus pro
tected. He raises watermeIons on
quite an extensive scale. I was sur
prised al the extent Of farming car
ried on and carried on in 3 most sys-
tematic and husbandmanlike wav.',