The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-04-27
money ASKED FOR
MARKET EXTENSION
AMTHOUTD[LAY
Bin Provides For Instructors TO
Get Busy With People
Immediately

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The introduction in the legislature Of
an emergency measure making an ap-
preparation, 70 be available immedi.
ately, 70 pay salaries and travelling ex-
penses Of agents Of the territorial mar
keting division is being discussed and
IL appears probable that such a bin
win be introduced.
The appropriation bin carries an item
for such extension agents Of the mar
ketihg department, whose duties would
be 70 keep in touch with producers.
make records Of paintings and harvesta
and generally give, instr lctions ON what
90 plant and how TO store and market
Ipr0duets.
But this appropriation viii not be
available until July 1, and meantime
1.-THE Territory faces an emerpencv.
People are planting all sorts OF things
Hin all sorts Of places without system on
knowledge Of what win be most needed.
Agents to instruct them are urgently
Inee9ed now. Along this line a. Il.
] Longley, superintendent Of the market.
ing division, said yesterday;
| The Territorial Marketing Division
| would be glad 20 take up the work Of
ldifecting the food crop planting opera
ltions on a larger scale than at present
| IL the funds for such work were avail
liable. The division Is now doing an
he work along this line that its limited
fluids will permit.
| In order to be able intelligently TO
aivise the producers what 10 plant Il Is
Unnecessary to know what is being
lplanted in other parts Of the Islands. A
ffund should be provided and made i'm
mediately available TO pay salaries and
travelling expenses for extension agents
lwhose duty Il would be 10 keep Ina
ftouch with the producers and make rec.
lords Of paintings and hnrvests as wen
ms to give instructions TO the producers
lon what TO plant and how 70 store and
market their pro lucts. In this way the
lprOducfion Of al Island food products
leould be better controlled and the pro-
incers given more assurance that their
IproiucA would not have to be sacrificed
Ion 4 gIutted market, which has often
IAnppeneI IN the past.
The I'VE thousand dollar item car.
RED in the general appropriation bin
for extension workers during the next
two years Is n very good beginning, but
The funds Will not be available until
lJuiy Il As Albert Horner saws. some.
Thing must be done at once IL the Iara-
Test production Is to be gotten during the
present planting season.
X While the calls for seeds have
| greatly increased, high percentage Of
he g. calls are for such vegetables as
l,ettufe, radiaheS, carrots. beets. and
l0tlier articles Of which there Is usually
la normal supply in the markets.. The
lproduction Of these Vegetables need not
/ be greatly increased. II is such crops
as dried beans dried peas, corn and
Irish potatoes, on which there viii be a
Shortage and prices very high. These
lafe the main crops and the production
sh0uId be increased
!" Thousands Of bags Of dried beans OF
N kinds are imported into the Terri
DRY each year aud anyone who can pro
luce A crop Of beans II assured Of a
good market here al home. II there
shouid be surplus II could easily be
Isoll on the mainland, or better still,
fheid in reserve here in properly con.
ltructed storerooms. An kinds Of
peans are IN great demand all over the
United States and are recommended as
me Of the safest crops 10 plant.
IL in the haste 40 get food crops
planted there II an overpfoducti0n Of
lsome. Rerishable articles, all consumers
aust 10 their best TO use up the surplus
sven though II means eating an article
,ftener than yon care 70. The house.
wife who win put aside the temptation
9 use canned goods simply because
hey are less work TO prepare, and will
use home grown products in their stead,
VII be a great help IN bnilding up an
independent food supply for these
Islands.
| f.Now is the time 10 start work to
ystenlatize all planting operations.
The season Of the year Is favorable and
he people Of the Territory could be
lfnore easily ndueed % plant now than
| after the first Of July, when the dry
weather has set In. The money to carry
Ion the work is what u needed. ~