The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-11-14
Doctor Blue Already Considering
Ways Of Kidding City Of
This Evil.
PLAN SUBSTITUTE CROPS
Peck Suggests Sugar = Currie
Thinks Alfalfa Would Be
Profitable.
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(from Mondays AdVertiset.J
That tho eradication Of wet farming
In Honolulu is an issue that can no
longer be sidestepped and that it must
be coincident with the fight against the
mosquito before the latter is successful,
appears to be the first opinion on Homo
lulu sanitation formed by Doctor Blue.
His laconic statement Saturday that all
mosquitoes in general are hereafter the
objects of the mosquito fighters and not
4 single species of mosquito, hints at the
broad manner in which he has inter
preted his welcome mission to Honolulu
and the earnestness with which he has
already entered into the fight.
No statement has yet been issued by
him regarding any policies which he
might form except the one relating to
his attitude towards the mosquito cam
paign, but he has already had con-
versations with Doctor Currie, and with
: others, directly on the subject.
The possibility of substituting an
other crop requiring less irrigation
than rice and taro was one of the first
ideas to be discussed by him when,
Saturday morning, he toured the city,
and strangely enough, the same matter
was brought up before the citizens
COMMITTEES at the meeting in the after
noon by L. Tenney Peck.
sugar7
Mr.. Peck, in commenting on wet
Turning, suggested such possibilities as
the substitution of sugar for rice and
taro and the erection of small mill
in Honolulu for the convenience of the
growers. o. H. Swezey, entomologist
of the planters experimental station,
called attention at the same meeting
to the swarms of mosquitoes that hover
about the cane fields, but also called at
tention to the fact that no attention is
paid by the plantations to keeping
them mosquito-free and stated that 1t
was his opinion that, with care in the
irrigation. the cane fields could be kept
free of the insects.
Such a radical move will not be con-
sidered at the present time, or at least
until the mosquito survey in Honolulu
is completed and the officials have
definite and scientific testimony on the
matter.
Doctor Currie, who relinquishes COM
mand of the mosquito fighters today,
stated last night that he believed al
falfa might make an acceptable sub
bIitube CTOP
Alfalfa, Maybe.
"The matter of doing away with the
wet farms is too great one for, the
present force to handle or the present
means to make possible. 1t is sub
iect for the legislature and of further
funds.p he said. 81 have heard that
seven crops or so of alfalfa can be
taken off the ground year and If such
is the case it ought to be as profitable
rs the crops now planted. "
Whatever is the final decision reached,
it is almost certain that the removal OF
wet farming will be brought about by
the gradual substitution of other crops,
most likely under government super
vision and possibly with government
aid.
If the special session of the legis-
lature is called (as is now almost GER
tain), for the sole consideration of
Honolulu health matters, these matters
will be among the first to be brought
before it, embodied in careful reports
by the experts who now have the diree-
ton of a more sanitary Honolulu in
hand.
The Funds on Hand.
The first detailed statement of the
funds on hand for. the present mosquito
campaign has been completed, showing
q total of $145, 900. A little more than
half of the allowance for the sanitary
inspectors for Honolulu has been placed
in the campaign fund. Half of the
territorial sanitation expenses, large
slice of the quarantine emergency fund,
half of the mosquito fund and almost
all of the contingent fund viii also
be used by the government while the
$40, 900 from the shippers wharf com
mittee fills the balance.