The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-10

fdcnce. That was the scientific side,
for it was becoming more and moro
recognized that farming is scientific
business.
SCIENTIFIC FARMING.
"'Book farming he said, chad been
spoken of rather contemptuously for
many years, But the United States is
carrying on the greatest under
taking in the world in the way of
scientific farming. 1t is, and has been
trying to teach the best methods of
producing better and bigger crops bet
ter live stock and more economically,
in short in increasing production and
the economy of production. The OK,
pertinent stations maintained through.
out the country are doing better work
than ever before, and the value of their
work is better recognized by the farm.
ers themselves, and is better appreciat.
ed by them.
"While the production side of farm
ing has thus been dealt with the bust
ness side of farming has been neglected
in these experiments. This has been
necessarily so, for until the producing
side had been developed, the time had
not come for the other
"Now however it is being taken up.
1t is recognized that it is useless to
produce abundant crops of superior
things, potatoes or pineapples, if after
they are produced there can be found
no market for them, or if they decay
on the way to market, or if the market
at one point or on one day is glutted
and at another point or on another day
is barren.
FARMERS MUST ORGANIZE.
81 can say, therefore, that it is a
part Of the business of the experiment
stations to show that farmers cannot
succeed without association and cooper,
alton. The farmer is too often a suspi-
cious individual. He acts as though he
wanted to quarantine his farm against
new IDEAS But the farmers must CO.
|operate in marketing. The farmer must
find out as the potato growers of Gree.
ley, Colorado, have found out, that or
ganization is necessary. They organ.
lied last year, and now they have a
man in their pay, working for their
interests, who looks after their pota-
toes when they are received in the mar.
ket. He keeps them advised as to
where to ship and in what quantities.
So that they are not shipping train
loads of potatoes to n market to arrive
just as other trainloads from some.
where else are arriving, The beauty of
this kind Of business is that there is
, no unfair advantage taken of anyone
1t is method of getting commodities
to the market at the time the market
needs them, and as it prevents guts
, in one place it prevents scarcity in
another.
GLUT AND SCARCITY.
"In Georgia last summer, at every
station, there were carloads of peaches
rotting because no one knew where to
ship them and because arrangements
for cars were not made, while in Wash
ington peaches were at a very high
price because of scarcity. The people
of Washington would have been very
glad to have these Georgia peaches, and
the peach growers would have beer
! very glad for them to have had them
l "There will be no change in policy
in the Experiment Station. 1t will con
tiaue to seek to learn processes and t.
publish all that is worth publishing
New problems will arise and it will seek
to deal with these. 1t will seek tc
develop every really practicable and
useful Hawaiian crop.
If WAR SHOULD COME.
"The War Department has been
seeking to find out what would happen
if war with anyone should shut you
off from communication with the rest
of the worldf Naturally it strikes a
newcomer more forcibly than it does
those who have lived here longer, that
so many things that are needed here
and which will grow here, and without
which you would be very quickly in
; straits, are not grown here. Take foI
instance potatoes and onions. They can
be produced here. They are used here
in great quantities, and yet they are
not grown here. If all importatious OF
them should stop for only four weeks, il
would be brought home to every one,
how important they are in the ordinary
dietary.
J, IF MORE COULD BE GROWN.
"Now, if some plan could be de.
yeloped by which more of these could
, be produced here--if plan could be
deyeloped by which more DeOnla wonld