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THE GARDEN ISLAND, TUESDAY. FEB. 25, 1919 3 r LET I'S DO 'ALL VOI R Laundry and Dry Cleaning Address WE ARE STILL IN THE HlSINESS Territorial Messenger Service HONOLULU BUCKINGHAM & HECHT i 7 Indian Tan - Wear Guaranteed ioes ror Men These have genuine Indian Till! Uppers, and hard Oak sole.- and li;is. I'.uilt for llif out door man, who MUST have a strong, .service able, comfortable i-hoe. $6.50 a pair We ran lit vim 1 v mail Manufacturers' Shoe Store HONOLULU w aimea LIMITED Stab! ess Livery Business AUTOMOBILE STAGE-LINE BETWEEN LI HUE and KEKAHA Up-to-date Livery, D raying- and Boarding Stable and Auto- X ..... Leaving L;hu? every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I.-aving K chain every Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday. ARRIVING AT THEIR DESTINATION IN TURKIC HOURS ALFRED 'GOMEZ, Manager. Telephone 43 W Wannea P. O. Box 71 H l Items of Interest to Our Homesteaders Dy 0. W. SAHR, County Agent i j-: Chamber of Commerce (lie Board of Education would take in regard to his iielion. but he had to ncl in the premises (Continued from page 1) j i- iii i 1 1 y, and prompt fiction to set aside this tract fortius pur-'' r S!,vi"H ,,M' summon at least in an important measure. Bhodc Island Beds arc the best dual purpose poultry for eating W. O. dwell of Wainiea, is trying out a method to NUpress laying and White Leghorns ore; root rot in his taro patches up the better where egg production Wainiea Valley. The chief draw is the main object in view. That! back in taro culture today is the is the experience of Miss Drewer, presence of taro root rot which who has had many years experi ence with poultry and is interest- causes a loss of from forty to seventy-live per cent of the crop ed in poultry at Mrs. Dora Isen- in the majority of plantings. Cation, Neil! & Co., Ltd. Engineers M'of.'.ss d iiiid South Streets ileueral () flit-ess Merchandise Depl. 1 Queen and Alakea Sts. Electrical Dept. II diri Hun Heiiresentatires for Brown Portable Elevators and Filers Money-making machines for handling in sugar in hags and lacked material warehouses, wharves and railroads. $$tm fjSfftffl fi&WO&h i r A Try The New Universal Tread No Other Tire Like It For All-' round Service The New Michel in Universal Tread is an inij: 'nvement on rubber non skids of both the raised-treud and suction-tread types, combining the advantages of these earlier non-skids; AND !N ADDITION this tire r ctsrsses the long life and re siliency th: t hnve always characterized both tho world-famous Michelin Rac ing Tyne Flat tread, and the Michelin Plain tiead. This is the. New Tire Everyon is Talking About Kauai Garage Mrs. .1. A. Ilo-x, Proprietor a v berg's place in Lihtie. The most surprising part of Miss Brewer's testimony is that she has never had sorehead iu her Hock, except once, when happened seven years or so ago when Hhe first became interested in poultry raising in Lihue. Miss Brewer be lieves in keeping the poultry quarters clean and sanitary as a means of disease prevention, and that practice along with the fact that she keeps young chicks screened in from mosquitoes is her secret for keeping sorehead out of the poultry flock. Young chicks are projected from mos quitoes at night until they are sixteen weeks old. Laying hens need exercise to keep them from getting fat, and as she has to keep her birds enclosed in runs she provides exercise by making the hens scratch for the greater part of their feed. Miss Brewer has a dry mash for laying hens that is prepared on the place and that cannot be bought ready mixed. The ingredients and proportions of the mash are as follows : 1 part oyster shell 1 part ground charcoal i parts bran 2 parts ground corn 2 parts ground oats iys parts beef scraps 2 parts alfalfa meal 1 part ground bone 1 part grit. The laying hens are allowed free access to this dry mash at all times. As the birds are till able to forage for green feed for themselves, chopped alfalfa, let tuce and Chinese cabbage is brought to the poultry and fed in abundance. 1 Read Th le Garden Island The Makee Sugar Company's harvesting gang on the Wailua and Waipouli end of the planta tion have nearly completed har vesting the plantation fields on that side of the plantation and will begin operation cutting home steaders' cane in that neighbor hood within a few .days. Homesteaders directly in line for harvesting their cane by the plantation are David Kane, .los. Coirea, John B. Souza, Miyoshi. Mala Waiwaihale, . Mrs. Booge, and C. Freilas. When the plantation will be able to divert its labor to help oth er homesteaders who have not or ganized to take care of their own cane, can not be said now, but much will depend on the progress of present harvesting operations. ltie Homesteaders mentioned a- bove are fortunate in being situ ated in the line of general har vesting operations of the pfanta- tion. With the return of some of the labor from the army there is a good chance of everybody get ting their cane oil' this year and most of the planters in this sec tion are more optimistic about the future. The fact that Makee Sugar Co. will discontinue the policy of ad valuing money to homesteaders should stimulate some of the planters who expect to be hard hit by this policy to be as economi cal as possible in order to put themselves on as independent a basis as possible. Patches that formerly would yield :!(I0 to 400 bags of taro to the acre yield 100 bags now, due to this rot. There are various forms of taro rot, but apparently 1 lit common est form is the white, soft rot. It is caused by an organism which. during one stage of its life, thriv es in the irrigation water of taro patches. Mr. Crowell intends to combat this organism as a means of reducing the rot in his patches. Work along these lines has al ready been conducted by Mr. D. L. Larsen, formerly of the Sugar Planters' Experiment Station, and now manager of Kilauea Sug ar Company. Mr. Larsen experi mented to determine the proba bility of killing the organisms causing the rot by applying fungi cide to the irrigation .water. To determine, the feasibility of this method Mr. Larsen applied copper sulphate or blue stone to badly infested patches before they were planted to taro. The patches were first flooded with several incnes or water and tiie copper sulphate dragged through the water in a gunny sack until it became dissolved . The natch was then allowed to dry out before planting the taro. The crop rais ed in this treated patch had only twenty per cent rot as compared with neighboring check patches that had not been treated and yienieu a crop seventy-live per cent infected. The experiment fully demon titrated the effectiveness of copper sulphate in destroying a large part of such organisms as cause taro root rot, but another difli culty involved in the control of this trouble is that new organisms come into the patch with new ir ligation water. This is especially true where the wafer passes thru other infested patches be for reaching the treated patches. It is i simple matter for a disinfected patch to become reinfected by in fee ted irrigation water after the patch has been planted. In the experiments conducted by Mr Larsen the water used for irriga tion in the taro patches was taken directly from springs and very little, if any, contamination could result from Ijie new irrigation water. In ordinary practice it is very seldom possible to get conditions such as were available for these experiments. At Wainiea, where Mr. Crowell is conducting his ex pcriments, the entire valley is badly infected with the rot, and the irrigation water is probably the chief agent for the distribu tion of the disease there. As a means of preventing the intro duction of new organisms of tin rot into biswitches Mr. Crowell will apply very small quantitie of copper sulphate to his irriga tion water from time to time thu killing the new organisms as they enter. A difliculty to content with in this practice is to avoh getting too strong a solution in the water of the taro patch as it might impair the growth and health of the growing plants, lie intends to keep the strength o the solution in the patches dilute pose. Three things are necessary: title, roads and water. The other two would come, he was satisfied. if the first was assured. It was asked why so large a tract should be set aside. What a'dvantage was there iu this larger site over the smaller one original . contemplated? To Suit All Taste Mr. Kiuuteeit responded that different people had tli.i'erent ideas about the kind of place and conditions, for a camp. Some want ed to be in the open, on the brink of the Canyon, overlooking it; some wanted to be down in some sheltered little hollow or dell; some wanted to be in the depths of a secluded koa finest. Now you couldn't very well get those arying conditions on a ten acre plot. Some people like to sing and whoop it up at night, while some liked to sleep iu peace and quietness undisturbed by the rev elry of their neighbors. You could not have these things and peace on a 10 acre plot. lie thought the first thing was to make up a rough description that would suHiciently indicate the iruct desired and then apply to the Legislature for an Act set ting it aside'as a public park for the purposes indicated. Oct Ajiprocal of Forestry Board Mr. lirandt remarked that -ISO acres was a pretty big tract to be cut out of the forestry reservation and in view of the fact that this articular tract had been recently added to the forest reserve region would it not be wise to anticipate objection from the Forestry De partment by conferring with them iu advance. Mr. Moray ne agreed that this was the thing to do. Confer with the Forestry Board; explain the plans and purposes, and make sure of their approval. Mr. W'i shard thought that thi was certainly tjie thing to do-and that this should be part of the preliminary preparation to go before the Legislature. Mr. Jiroadbent moved that Mr. Moraine be commissioned to make (he necessary description of the tract, and then go to Hono lulu' and set the whole mailer be fore the Forestry Board for their approval, and that any necessary expense be borne by the Chamber of Commerce. This was carried. Mr. liroadbeiil also moved that Mr. Eric Kuiidsen be added to the summer camp commit tee, Mr. Morayne asked that he be properly accredited to the Forest ry Board. The secretary was in structed to furnish' him with a letter to the Board, ami the com mittee of the Planters' Associa tion were requested to do the same. The I iiJIiiciku Situation Dr. E. A'. Yoiniy being-present was requested to make a state ment of the Spanish iniiuen. situation iu the Lihue section of the Island. He Haiti, in response, that there were between nit ami cases that he knew of, and more welt coming iu rapidly, ami many o them were of the severe type, lit had just closed the Lihue public school for the reason that tin pupils came from widely scparat eil districts, and were thus spread ing the tlisease. from the infectei districts to those that were, thu far, free from the disease, am iniirht iierhans be kept free. Tin Japanese school at Kapaia ha also neen dosed lor the saint reason. There was no reason for abjrni ; if the cases could be taken early they were not likely to be severe. The trouble was that so many of them were not discovert or reported until they were we under way, and then it went hart The Sihonls in Ifunnliilii Mr. hiiurfxiii called attention to the iacl that iu Honolulu the schools were kept iu operation willi the couviclion that it was the be:.( protection against the spread of the tlisease. The child ren could be more effectively anil successfully watched in the scl Is than they could at home. Condition Diffinnt litre Dr. )'mtn;i iu reply said that conditions wei e diU'crcnl here in Ihe country. The children came from widely separated seel ions and thus carried the tlisease to distant places which were perhaps otherwise safe. "In addition to tliis, we have here a careful daily house to house inspection, so ihat we spot cases and make provision for iliein, more quickly (ban through llit' schools. The idea is o keep the tlisease in the camp here it is active and not let it M into tin' other camps; and if we cauuol do this completely, any way we hope thai we can retard Ihe spread of it. and even this is cry much to be desired. To have "i00. or 000 eases thrown into our lands at once is going to tax our esources beyond our limits, so it we cannot give them proper it lent ion." Mr. liroadbeiil raised the ques ion as to whether the children would stav in Iheir own home amps in such a vacation period is woumI thus he given ttieni. 1 lie anger, he thought, would be that they would roam about and thus might become a source of infec tion. He thought they should be placed under some control more inlhoiitive than a plantation policeman or a plantation luna. Krlool .air A mend incuts Mr. jydyalv introduced a num ber of resolutions calling for amendments io the school laws. which il was the sense of the Chamber were too far reaching and too comprehensive for iei- mediafe action, without a good al of careful and intelligent study. After some considerable liscussion the suggestion was made to refer them to the com mittee on education. However, as this would involve a delay of two mouths until the next regular mecliiiir of the Chamber, which would defeat the object of the motion, .nr. J.ydgale withdrew the matter. :0: LFSS Til. I V FIFTH OF VlUiP IS Si: XT TO MAIXLAXIt to less than one part copper sul - with them. He didn't know what phatc to one million parts water, position the Board of Health and Shipments of tin IK IS crop are still under the 100(1(10 ton mark but will have been pissed within the next few days, says the Ad vertiser of the 2Isi. I'p to yes terday afternoon there had de pa Ned something more (ban !(,- 000- Ions. The Suyrar Factors Company has sent away h2.:!7:t tons and it is estimated oilier sugar has gone to ihe extent of Kri.:t::2 making a tidal of !M:,00." Ions. There are. however, several vessels lure and at other sugar ports of the Islands taking cargo and their departure will put ship ments, within the next few days, well above ihe figures of today. Ships continue plentiful and de partures are far and away ahead id' last year al this time. If the sugar were available there would be no diilicr.liy in moving it away faster for the hot loins are ready. But the grind goes slowly becausi of the labor shortage. Iu ihe recent shipments are in cluded those on the Point Boniia which has departed for New York, via the canal, the tirst of a series of regular shipments by that route It was at this season last year the shipping situation became most iA'iitc.