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THE GARDEN ISLAND TUESDAY. JAN. 1, 1918; 1 "Industry earns; Economy manages; Prudence plans; Frugality saves; But thrift Thrift earns, AND plans, AND Manages, And saves." We pay 4 interest on time deposits. j j Bishop & Company Savings Department HONOLULU Extracts From Daily Reports of County Agents MAUI Spraying Potatoes. Sprayed potatoes at Patterson Snow white, velvet smooth collars and linen; thoroughly cleaned gowns and suits; beautifully col ored, permanently dy ed fabrics;-these three points i n excellent service are offered you by the French Laundry Mail orders a specialty. 777 So. King St., Honolulu Manufacturer eellent for boiling, but not so Rood P'""1 1,11,1 "1,l( h of for poi. 1 he Hawaiians do not raise this as a rule, but some will be raised by the hui. I believe that more palakea taro should be raised thruout the territory. Japanese Cooperative Societies. A committee of Japanese came demonstration farm using 5-5-50 to me for help regarding their sell- home-made Bordeaux supplement- ing, buying problems. We called ed with 3 lb. arsenate of lead to on ten Japanese living in Keahou, 100 gallons spraying mixture, in Kainahu and Kcalakekua and comparison with pyrox" supple- found the following conditions: mented with Faris Green. Results The coffee producers ate not re thus far attained would indicate ceiving at present what they con- that both poisons have been effec- sider a fair price for their coffee. tiye in checking insect injury, as Often when they sell to the large no blight has yet appeared. The merchants here thev do not get effectiveness of the two forms of cash but trade checks. In addi- Bordeaux cannot yet be determin- tion they consider that the nier- ed. Find that approximately 100 chants charge them excessive pric- gallons of solution is required to es for what they buy. snrav an acre of notatoei in which These Japanese want to go to- the plants are seta foot apart in I gether and buy their stuff whole- rows 30 inches apart, plants avevag- sale, and want to find out the low ing a foot in heigth. Also that it est price they can get for rice in required! about 9 hour-days to ton lots. They piefer Japanese W. H. ZIMMERMAN JOHN F. RAI'OZO, Lilme, Kauai. Kauai Agent. For Holiday Remembrance you may look far and long and yet not come upon any thing more suited to the times than REGAL SHOES Let every member of your family rejoice in Regal-clad feet. Order bv mail. REGAL SHOE STORE Honolulu, Oahu Ernest Palmeira 96 Buick for hire at all hours. Tel. 228 Car No. 404 Kapaia spray an acre thoroughly when us ing a knapsack or comprised air hand sprayer. On the above basis with present costs of material and : labor it cost us to spray approxi mately as follows: 1 Wta'.oe with Bordeaux mixture rice, but it this cannot be gotten, will take Texas rice. Thev also wish to buy their sovu, barley, clothes, etc. the same way. If they can exchange their coffee and other produce for the stuff they buy, in this manner it will be much ipp'.cnitnted with arsenate of soda better for them. xv. v.s-ric the ordinary 3 gallon ca;icitT knapsack or compressed air sprayer. 10 lb. Iblue stone (copper sul- rh.ite") (A 15c $1.50 10 lb. Best burned lime l! j.4 .15 3 lb. Arsenate of lead 30c 1.15 Two davs labor for mixing and applying spray Uv 1.50 pet dav 3 00 Total cost per acre 5.70 There is no allowance for equip ment in the above. Opikihale, Klpahohoe Awa Production At Kipahoehoe and South found considerable awa root production. Hie Hawaiians in tins part are making a business of raising and drying this root. Near Papa there is about 60 acres of it. It takes five to six years for the roots to mature. They are then dug, cut in slices, cleaned ana anowea 10 drv in the sun before shipping The Hawaiians say that they ave race two or three tons per ncie yield. Thev send it to San Fran Spraying with power equipment ci9C0 receiving from ?60 to 870 per lessons costs somewhat, and great ly increasing the capacity for cover ing the ground rapidly. It is esti mated that no less than two and not more than five sprayings will be necessary for effective control. Home Gardens in Central Maui Dec. 11 and 12th spent in judg ing home gardens witn Messrs Mathews, Editor Maui News Some 200 miles covered by auto and foot visiting some 15 gardens. Very creditable gardens were seen in eacti ot tne several cusiricis. The judges gave consideration to only the four or five gardens which the district supervisors considered the best in their respective dis tricts, this being necessary because of the large number of gardens competing there being possibly 500 in Central Maui alone. Three first prizes will be awarded to Cen tral Maui contestants, These will consist of a free trip and a weeks stav in Honolulu; 2nd and 3rd prizes will consist of useful com modities. Full report will appear in the Maui News of the 14th inst This home garden competition was carried out under the auspices of the Maui County Fair & Racine Assn, The Countv Agent has giv en freely of the Food Commis sion's service to this work and has obtained much valuable data as a result of his contact with the work. Kula and Makawao Demonstrations. Materials were distributed, new lots of solutions were made up and in several cases a final spraying was made to the crops of potatoes soon to be harvested. On the whole the present winter crop of potatoes not badly hit by the blight; on the other hand, there is ample evidence that the spraying has been effective in warding off the blight in many cases. The cut-worm and aphis injury together with possibly the newlv discovered potato mite appears to have been quite as serious a draw back as the blight. Scarcely less attention has been given to the in sect pests that to the potato dis eass, and it becomes apparent that a number of factors must be con tended with rather than with the blight alone. WEST ton for it. Most of this awa be ing used for medicinal purposes, Pia, HAWAII. Taro Hui, Hookena. urove to nooKena to neip torm a nui tor tne raising ot taro. ine people here wanted to sometime ago organize this hui. One has finally been organized, with Mr satnuei loomey or KeaiaKeicua as president. There will be about 35 families in it altogether. There has been a shortage of taro for sometime, many stopping from raising it, the pull having risen from $1.50 to 83.50 and 84 per bag. This being too high the Hawaiians have been substituting nan nour ana taro. tnisnui in tends to greatly increase the amount of taro in South Kona es pecially, reducing the price of taro. Kona will be supplied first, and the surplus sent to Honolulu Am trying to get Kona produce consumed m Hona wherever pos' sible. Mr. Henuques, who has consid erable land in this vicinity has offered the hui good taro land at $2 per acre rent. There is a white taro that is ex There is also considerable pia raised in this vicinity. The tubers are used for making startch, The Hawaiians use this stai tch both for the clothes and for food, mixing it in poi. They do not raise it on a commercial scale however. Kona-Puna, Kapoho. Visited growers near Kapoho; rain K 5V6 acres potatoes, 1 acres pea nuts, one acre watermelons, and will soon plant moro acres of each. Say that Island potatoes and heans have hecn feilures in that region. Hybrid potatoes complete failures. Henry Lyman has growing pigeon peas and edible canna, which are now doing well; also has three imported Ches ter 'Whites, thirteen small pigs and thirty-nine turkeys. Gave 1000 sweet potato cuttings to Pasyck. Volcano district 11 acres cabbages, 3V2 acres corn, 2 acres beans, 24 acres Island potatoes, $4 acres pumpkins. Will soon plant 20 acres corn, l'i acres cabbage, 2-'4 acres Island potatoes and V acre of sweet potatoes. Mr. English will try alfalfa. Gave him small quantity of seed. Is having success with dies ter Whites, 3 pure bred mature hogs and 29 small pigs. OAHU. Kaneohe, Waiaohle, Kalai, Waikane. Kice crop coming off very well through these districts. Chinese seem satisfied and feel they are get ting very good yields. Japaneso pea nuts coming along fairly well and promise a good crop. New rice land leased from Sing Chong by Japanese plowed up and ready for planting at right time. At present a good deal of water due to heavy rains. This land looks good and fertile. Ij. L. McCandless' rice land at Wai hole idle. Can anything be done? Ho does not seem to bo able to see clear of the shadow of a dollar. uninaman uy cnurcli nas a gcod corn planting. l-eanuis worked iy i:hineso near Kaaawa Point give promise of a good yield. Market. General conditions fairly good; good biock on nana ai present, what can bo done with great surplus? Bellina Ranch. tattle on this place look very fair new coast cattle picking up. The old slock are being imported and sold. Iced fields of alfalfa, pondan and sorghum looking very well. Lucas. ( has. I.ucas claims he is short of feed so wants to sell some of his cat tie. These cattle are mostly imported Holstein stock. Market. i.ooKing into sweet potatoes com ing in trom around the island find there are not too many. Irish po tato seed coming in soon according to the market. Kamehameha Schools. J-.verylliing going on well. .Mr. Iior den interested in coming Territorial Fair in the spring. Directions classes, prizes, Inst me t ions, etc., ought to no sent out or posted around the islands in printed form. Island and imported stock should be separately classified. Makapu. Japaneso doing good work here; It cleared. Corn and tomatoes doing well; some potatoes In and doing nicely. .More being planted ns they obtain seed. Good seed Is being gotten from o Chung & Co. Kailua. Kverything nt Kailua doing well; onlv one corn patch hit by hopper. About 30 aerus of onions now about all transplanted. EAST HAWAII. School Gardens. Talked over plan for fertilizing ex periment nt Papaikoti with principal. Gardens In laborers' camps doing verv nicelv. The people here show signs of Interest. Measured off plots nnd staked com ers for experiment at school gardens. Made four equal plots 40 x 22 with a 2-ft. space between plots, one to be fertilized with complete fertilizer; one wit n sianeu nine; one wun nom lime and fertilizer and one as a check. Homo spare ground near these plots is to be planted at the same time by the Portuguese janitor of school in ho old fashioned Portuguese manner of planting. Camps Maukaa. Large garden along sido of houses in camps; corn, cassada, beans, sweet potatoes nnd cabbages main crops. orn and beans doing very nicely except in a few gardens where the cut worm is very troublesome. Pump kin., peanuts and cassava, also taro ne ir Hawaiian homes doing very well now with rainy weather. Kaiwiki. On a Portuguese place here is a lemon tree about 10 feet high with very little foliage and branches on it except at end of long bare trunk; has about 20 to 30 lemons on it, each lemon weighing close to 1 pound. On asking why more were not raised said they did nt one time but it had all been cleared for cane. One Japanese has some dry land rice growing. Soy Deans give signs of a very good crop; potatoes doing poorly on account of too much rain; sweet corn growing 8 to 10 feet high with 2 to 3 good ears to a stalk. More taro being planted as there is a hotter price lor Jt. 1 no Japan ese get together and send the taro to the Coast in crates. Gave out turnip seed to the truck gardeners to try out to seo what success there is hero in turnip grow ing. Hilo. Collected pledge cards and school cards. Limed and fertilized school plots and had school boys dig over the area and mark it for planting. Boys interested in work. Teacher has asked them to submit a paper on the third day of school next term on the work and proceeding with the ex perinient. Experiments are going to be carried out in all the school and the students familiarized with the work. Hilo Boarding School. Taro ready for harvesting. Found a grass growing in taro held and in pasture that is very vigorous grower crowding out other grasses and grow ing all in and around the taro, chok ing it out. Sent specimens to IT. S Experiment Station for name, char acteristic of growth and usefulness Hakalau. Went to seo potatoes sprayed week ago. Rainy weather washing off spray; young plants that were no uauiy anecieu snow tne nenelit o spraying. Maui beans, lima beans peas, tomatoes, corn, cabbages all do ing very nicely. Camps along roadsides all have good gardens and show signs of much in terest nnd work in gardening. All bakers using 10 barrels or more of flour per month are required to take out a license. The size of the loaf of bread will be stabilized to the multiples of 16 ounces and 24 ounces. License applications will In forwarded to all bakers as soon they are received in Honolulu. The steps that are now being taken to regulate the baking industry ar only part of the program contempt: leu. 1 tie wtieat conservation pro gram, which Is the most importan part, will bo the next step. Ther is a pressing necessity of reducing th consumption of wheat Hour in th I'nited States by at least twenty-fly million barrels in the next twelv months in order that we may hav even tne minimum necessary tor ex port overseas to our own and our allies' lighting forces and for our al lies' minimum civilian needs. In view of the regulation of bakers who conserve wheat, it will bo well for county agents to encouarge the production of cassava from which can be manufactured a very satisfac tory flour. If sufficient quantities of cassava are available, we will their be in a very good position to substi tute cassava Hour for a portion of the white Hour consumed should reg ulations come from Washington re ducing the quantity of Hour to be used in the manufacture of bread. Cassava is a safe crop to raise because if it is not needed for human consumption as flour, it can always lie feil to pigs, for which there is al ways a ready sale. J. K. CHILD, Asst. Executive Ollicer. MORRIS & COMPANY'S B SUPREME BRAND TABLE DELICACI ES Kvcrv Can (iuimiuttrd QUOTATIONS SUBMITTED UPON REQUEST GONSALVES & CO., LTD. Agents for Hawaii. 74 Queen Street, - Honolulu, T. H. Nawiliwili Garage C. W. SPITZ, Prop. NAWILIWILI, KAUAI TELEPHONE 494 Automobiles to all Parts of Kauai, all hours, Day and Night AUTOMOBILES AND LIGHT MACHINERY REPAIRED AGENTS FOR PIERCE ARROW, HUDSON, STUDEBAKER, OVERLAND AND EORD CARS, FEDERAL AND REPUBLIC TRUCKS Goodyear Tires and Tubes The best in the Market for the Money. Agents for Inter Island Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. at Nawiliwili. Kauai Goodyear NAWILIWILI GARAGE, Agents for Kauai. I i Copyiittt lUrl Sibaifncr & Mar I Silva's Toggery, Honolulu. J