The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1918-09-03
COUNTY AGENT
MAKES REPORT

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the Territorial Market. There will be
large crop of peanuts at this place.
Am forwarding samples to the Ter
ritorial Market to obtain a market
price for them. The Japanese are dis
posing of peanuts locally anywhere
from $500 to $1,000 so pound bag.
There will be more peanuts than the
local market can consume when the
main crop comes in.
Water MELONS at Waiapouli and
Kapaa are being marketed locally.
Growers receive four cents per pound
The melon fly has been less destruc.
tive than usual this year.
Went to Mana to inspect Pah On's
800 acre rice plantation. Mr.. Pah On
has 600 acres of rice and has only
enough water for 300 acres of rice
under cultivation, This land used
to be a salt marsh and through his eff
forts it has now become a very pro
ductive rice plantation. Mr.. Pah On
leases this land from V. Knudsen who
in turn leases 1t from the Government
In 1920 the lease expires. Pah Ons
E,,;l IN hn
would make repairs if he were GER
tain he could renew his lease in 1920.
Joe Bento the farmer at Laval, who
raised some exceptionally fine corn
is harvesting some of his corn because
it Is suffering from too much moisture
He was advised to double his corn
turn the stalks over so that the ears
would hang down, thus shedding the
rain from the grain. Mr.. Bento will
have about five tons of shelled corn
from his five acres. he is going to
leave some of his corn unshelled and
mark this for seed. Mr.. Bento's corn
is a native hybrid resembling the
ior ear. Persons desiring seed OF this
variety may make application through
the County Agent at Lihue. Mr.. Bento
will sell the seed for $500 per cwt. un-
shelled. This will enable the planters
to test the seed ears. He finds this
variety a disease resistant.
no Ion
ers at Waialua River. One farmer
here has been raising sweet potatoes
on the same piece of land for IL years.
Advised rotation with peanuts and
beans. Okamura will have a shipment
for the Territorial Market in the near
future. He is peddling his crop now
and would appreciate a market where
he could sen his produce n bulk He
raises only sweet potatoes and devotes
five acres to this crop.
At Opeeopeelio a Japanese farmer
has some very fine Irish potatoes.
They are being harvested and mar
keted locally at $4.O0 per bag.
Shdo' iNltc Vi IhC iNdllCH 10
going to try velvet beans lie has
purchased 1000 pounds of seed thru
the county agent. He also intends
to plant 100 pounds of black-eye beans.
He had good success with them
last year and found a ready market
for his product among the Japanese
who are very fond of them. If plant
ed in October, black eye beans are
not troubled with aphis.
Mr.. Kelnoii of Waimea called to
take up the matter of taro production.
He has the labor and land for so acres
of taro and 20 acres of rice if he can
get the p.tal to carry out his plan.
He is very anxious to get IIawaiians
back to the land and has a proposi-
ton which ought to work out well if
the men whom he has organized are
dependable. | have investigated the
scheme and Miss Elsie wilcox will
financially back him if everything that
he has claimed turns out to be feas-
able. If he can plant 80 acres of taro
he will increase the acreage of taro on
Kauai by almost 1-3 and help out the
food situG tion considerably.