The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-03-07
EXPERIMENTATION
'lSNOW MAKING HAY
New Grasses At TRIAL Grounds
Above Pensacola Street Are
60 q Worth Seeing

A few years ago aelrit P. w .lder dis
covered new pasture grass well estab.
lfshed on some of the Maui ranches
and in due consequence IL was named
'Wilder grassy Botanieally this spe.
cies n AndrOpogon ncdoSum, a native
Of Australia and New Zeala, d. and the
seed was probably introduced as an ae-
eidentai impurlty In paspamm or other
seeds imported from the AptipOdes. e..
The Hawaii experiment station, has
quite a urge plot OF Wilder grass row.
ing on the mauka side Of the Punch.
bowl drive, Just above the administra.
tieh bnil'ling, and II would be worth
the while Of ranchers to go and have n
look az IL.
The grass and forage plant work mt
the experiment station is in charge OF
g. A. Sahr Besides the Wilder grass
there are large pots Of Australian
grass" which is also an And<opogen,
or Pill, san,' the new green manure
crop used by the plantations to make
cane fields richer; Big Bermuda, or
manierie >nni; woOlly top, the range
grass brought here fr' m New Mckee
by Jared Smith a dozen years ago when
he wa dire ctOr of the experiment sta,
tion; fax, which DIR. f.. V. Wilcox In
trodueed and grew suCc fully as a
dry-laRd winter crop; and, a, "small
grains for-hay" series of plots where
Mt. bahr is demonstrating what car be
done with oats, rye and wheat for this
purpose In Hawaii. Il ~
The mqHiepies nui has just been cut
for hay, Bermuda grass hay, as every
one knows, Is one Of the stand-bys IN
the Son!h. Here, nothing has been
done with Il because the ,ordnary lawn
and pasture variety never grows hi p
saough to Now Incidentally, by way,
Of explanation, 4" BermuJla gassf IL
nothing more than our good Old Ha-
valiant tman. enie,'' The IN liplandera
do not Know Is right name, that is all
Manienie Is Marfn's Grass
To digress, We call ii "manienie !"
because Doctor Na" IN brought the orig
inai sOls from Mexico nearly a hundred
years ~ O, planting it ut his place in
Pauoa valley, aud "paBienie' moanI
d" Marin 3 grass which is as close as
the old Hawaiians could twist their.
tongues TO pronouneing his name. 800.
r A year or two ago the experiment
station seieRtists, in some of their ram
bliss, found hinge and glor fed version
OF manianie growing in some nnexp"ct
ed locality. Recognizing its pOssib;h-
ties ii its characters held true, they
pouneed upon il, transferred ii to the
experiment station trial grounds, aud
have developed, q ten ton hay producer
ont of it. =. > .. .
To Solve The Hay Problem :,
~ Manienis Nui Is a taIi-gTowing plant,
very hafy, but with soft stems. The
botanical grass-shaTps hack in Wash
inpt0n claim that ID is the same Old
Rermuda grass" that gtOws IN the
tfopies everywhere else. If that is
correct our Hawaiian t'Marin g Grass
must esTtainly he n nsw species, or els =.
the Washington grass-Ologists take too
much for grapted. The two grasgs mr. y
certainly not the same. 4 The common
or garden varsity, Is the hest lawn
grass and is a mighty fine past ar,
2rHss The new invention is n giant
and 1t is going to help solve the hay
problem in these FslaRds. au5" e..
The Hawaii exPerimc mt station Is do
ing good work for the ranchers and
small farmers, and there Is good rea
son why the plantations lshonh not
also awaken to the poosibI tics Cd
growing their own hay instead of i'm
parting It, WfldeT grass, WOOL y tor,
manJenie nui, and oats are all proved
hay makers, and in these DAYS Of high
freight rates on bulky merehandise, Al
work stock fe; d ought to be grown at
L0me.,