Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-03-11

the people of the State in its work.
Every community that makes any pre-
tentions to being progressive can
hardly do better than adapt Wiscon-
sins ideas to its own conditions The
University of Wisconsin stands as the
leader of the land grant colleges in
fulfilling to the greatest extent the
requirements imposed upon it under
the Morrill, act of 1862 This is the
act under which the establishment of
the College of Hawaii was made pos
sible. Not only has the University of
Wisconsin maintained most excellent
departments of agriculture and the
mechanic arts but for the last decade
or so it has been Jealous in bringing
it's advantages and opportunities to as
many of the citizens of the common
wealth as it could by well directed eff
forts prevail to take advantage there
of, 1t is distinctively the peoples COL
lege and the wise officials of the in
stitution are anxious to continue it's
work to the great advantage of the
people and to the development of the
state itself. While there are now
over 1000 students regularly enrolled
in the several departments of the uni
versity, it is reaching out to help
through it's extension department per-
haps hundreds of thousands more 1t
is seeking to keep the whole agricul-
tural people of that great state in
formed of the latest discoveries and
results of Investigations in the realms
of this great science, teaching prin-
ciples of cooperation and economy in
the buying of necessities and selling
of farm products, urging seed i'm
provement and better breeding of
stock, in short, seeking to Undue the |
rural sections of the State with the /
necessity of getting the most out of |
life and the most out of the land they
cultivate.
How then can the great work of |
this institution be better furthered
than by securing the support of the
newspapers?
Bulletin upon bulletin may be print
ed and circulars without number be
distributed but however extensive may
be the mailing lists of these it I'M
questionably comes back to the fact
that fewer people by far are reached
by them than could be the case
through the columns of the daily or
weekly press of the State.
To secure the support of the news
papers it is proposed that the matter
be put up to them on the CONNER
cial basis.
The fact is evidently appreciated
there that the papers are not entirely
philanthropic institutions; that they
as well as every legitimate enterprise
in that State, are in business for what
profit there is to be secured there
from
Instead of asking them to publish
the findings of the Investigations con-
Quoted by the State experiment sta
ton and the results of the work car
ried on in all departments of the
it is proposed that the
State through the officials of this in
stitution, buy space to advertise these
conclusions among the people in the
State and thus made acquainted with
most modern methods, be enabled to
upon their work to the great
er advantage of themselves and their
State. Get all the farmers to grow
two ears of corn where but one grew
before and it takes no great amount
Of figuring to estimate the increased
value of the aggregate crop. What, it
may be asked, has led to the advance
in the size of the crops in that State
as we'll as in other States of the
Union? The demonstration by the ex-
lerts of the best methods of propaga-
ion and the dissemination of that
by the verbal or printed
word
While extension work in agricutur-
i lines is carried on by means OF
travelling schools of agri-
culture, demonstration work and
armers' institutes held frequently
nd over wide areas Of the State, it
ONES right back to the principle that