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THE GARDEN ISLAND, TUESDAY, MAY, 27, 1919 Items of Interest to Our Homesteaders Dy G. W. SAHR. County Agent Frank Crawford of Llhue has made a discovery of a variety of garden pea that does exceptionally well un der Hawaiian conditions. The va riety in particular favor with Craw ford is the "Duke of Albany" and seed may bo obtained from the J. M. Thor- burn Meed Compr.ny of New York City. An oberver of the variety can see at a glance that the variety is be yond a doubt the best cuited for our conditions. It is a very tall growing variety, requiring a trellis of six feet or more In height to support the vigor ous growth of the vines. Under Llhue conditions good yields havo been se cured from plantings made through out the entire winter season from No vember to March, and with a favor able season the variety would prob ably yield well even in tho summer months though no record is avail able of Its success during the summer months. At a higher altitude or un der more humid conditions the variety will probably thrive the year through. According to Mr. Crawford the va riety takes about 100 days to mature and yields for from four to six weeks. The ptas are large and of excrllent quality. Mr. Crawford ha3 raised the variety for three years. He Import, fresh seed every season, having found that home grown seed docs not do as well as the newly imported. Fresh seed will not be available until Novem ber or December this coming autumn but home gardeners on Kauai ought to get in touch with the seed company mentioned above to be in line for fresn seed when .t is available. When it comes to coaxing the fami ly cow to get the maximum flow of milk, leave it to H. H. Brodle of Ha napepe to deliver the goods. Mr. Brodie spent considerablp time and trouble worrying along a patch of Sudan grass and alfalfa in order to have the choicest feeds for his family milk machine, and due to his efforts he now has an abundance of highly . nutritious milk producing feed for his family cow. But that is not all, Mr. Brodie believes in comfort for his cow, and knowing the sensitive whims of the animal he constructed a fly catcher to be used before milking in order to remove the flies from bossie's back that she might rest contented at the feed box while Mr. Brodie coax es out the milk. The fly catcher con sists of a net, similar to a butterfly net or botanists specimen net. The opening of the net instead of being circular Is oblong In order to better conform with the lines of the bovines back. According to Mr. Brodie the critter shows almost human apprecia tion for the effort expended on her. John O. Abru of Kalaheo Home steads is considering numerous im provements on his place at Lawat. Abru has been running a good sized dairy, supplying Kalaheo and McBryde camp with fresh milk for some time now. Abru has pulled him3elf out of a bad hole financially and is now ready to go ahead on a larger scale. Among the improvements that he contem plates is improvement of his pastures with better pasture grasses. He also contemplates purchasing a purebred Holstein bull. Abru's reports show that dairying if carried on pdoperly can be made a very sucessful undertaking. He has worked under difficulties and over come many serious obstacles, in his light for making a living by means of keeping a dairy. To-day he feels that he has made a success of his under taking, but he aims yet to have a first class dairy. R. D. Isreal and Elmer Chentham of Upper Walpouli homesteads celebrat ed the completion of the major opera tions on their cane crops by taking a few days vacation last week at Cheath ams beach house at Niumalu. They spent most of their time fishing at the mouth of the Huleia River. No other single business born of the war has affected a greater number of people than has gardening. Starting from a mere nothing before the United States entered the war, this form of service grew in less than two years into a new occupation, which counted its followers by the hundreds and, In the number of people employed, ex ceeded any other branch of gainful occupation, with the single exception of actual farming. The fact that such a vast number of our people took up this work shows that they appreciated the merit of it, and is one of the reasons for the con fident prediction that gardening has come to stay. It is Something that the people will not willingly let die. Home food production will continue because it has been found worth while and, like other things which this war has proved to be of value and benefit to mankind, it will last. War gardening will permanently establish itself as a necessity because its peace-time value fully equals its war-time worth. This will be true at all times, hut more particularly so during the first five or ten years of the great reco'.idtniction period, for during t!vat period the matter of food production will be of the most prest ing importance. It will be on a par with many of the other enormous re construction problems that ft.ee- the world. It will require the continued application of broad thought and ef fort.. There will be no decrease in the demand for food, in fact the de mand will really be greater, than it was during the days of actual conflict. The post-war need for enlarged gar don production offers to the Hawaiian plantations an opportunity, through the encouragement of gardening among their employes, not only to be of help to the Territory but also to benefit themselves. The employe who can be induced to become a gnrdener becomes straightway a more worth while employe. The contented worker is usually one who enjoys a comfortable living; and gardening, by virtually ao.ding to the employe's income and providing him with better food then he can buy in the market, tends to make him con tented. Money that would otherwise have to be spent for food can be used for the purchase of small luxuries. Of no less value is the recreational fea ture of gardening. The toller in the hot sugar mill, especially cr.n find no avocation that will build him up phy sically and refresh his energies as gardening will. Duty to both the Ter ritory and his own corporation de mands that every plantation manager should do his utmost to stimulate gar dening among his employes. War Savings 1 Stamps ' 4 Lihue Branch Bank of Hawaii, Ltd. Thrift Stamps $6,000 in Purses w i be given in 3 -Day HORSE RACING MEET at the TERRITORIAL FAIR Honolulu June 9-14 Original 6-day program is now to be concen trated into 3 big days, as follows: J! MONDAY, JUNE 9 Four furlong Free-for-all Purse Six furlong Free-for-all Purse Three furlong Hawaiian Hied, Two years Purse Polo Pony Free-for-all ..Purse One Mile four-foot liunlle Free for-all Purse Four furlong Hawaiian Bred, Free-for-all Purse WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11 Free-for-all trot or pace: 3 in 5. ..Purse $1000 Four furlong, Oflieers and (ientle- nien... Purse 50 ?8 Mile Polo Boy, Sr Cup Races will lie ten (10) pound.- Free-for-all run 8150 mo 150 50 150 150 Ladies, one-half mile Cup One mile Free-for-all running.. Purse 750 with 8150 added if tiack record is broken. s Mile Polo Boy, Jr. Cup Six furlong Free-for-all Purse 1500 Individual high jump Free-for-all. Purse 50 SATURDAY, JUNE 14 2:15 Class trot or paee; 3 in 5.... Purse 85(X) Seven furlong, running Free- for-all... Purse 300 Six furlong, Hawaiian bred Free-for-all Purse 2J Six furlong, Japanese Free-for-all. Purse !5() l! 2 Mile running Free-for-all Purse 500 Six furlong Free-for-all Purse 100 Lelow scale of weights in all nmg raeeH. ROBERT HORNER Chairman Racing Commitree. EDWIN H. PARIS, Chairman J. WALTER DOYLE, Exec. Sec. 303 Hawaiian Trust Bldg. Honolulu Waste Baskets not merely holders of waste paper but Nemco Expanded Metal Waste Baskets Bigid rather than loosely wov en; attraetive, fireproof and practical. Will out-wear a dozen of any other kind. Hawaiian News Co., Ltd. Young Hotel Building Honolulu CALIFORNIA FEED CO I.I.MlTKli. Dealers i n Hay, Grain anu Chicken Supplies. Sole Agents for Inti'i iiatiiHial Murk. Poultry Fond Biid other wix-Haltie. Arabic for coolinjr Iron KouIh. IVtahmia In cubators mid ItroiMlcr. King's Spjxiaj. Chick Food P. O. Box 452. Honolulu HOTEL LIHUE (The Fairview) Twenty-t,o elegant rooms In Main Building Three Airy Cottages Cuisine unexcelled in country districts W. H. Rice, Jr., Proprietor 4 Koloa Plantation Store Who! esate and Retail Groceries Dry Goods of aU Descriptions. General Plantation Supplies. "We have not studied cost nor economy as we should, either as organizers of indus try, statesmen, or as individuals." . President Wilson. But there is yet time to start to save and that time is NOW. J J Bishop & Company Sving Deprt merit WAIMEA BRANCH KAUAI Regal The national Shoes For men and Women Regal Shoe 'y Ci ke$au oiore Fort Ami Hotel! HONOLULU Nawiliwili Garage Successors to C. W. SPITZ .. A'; VOCKETT, Manager NAWILIWILI, KAUAI TELEPHONE 494 Automobiles to all Parts of Kauai, all hours, Day and Night AUTOMOBILES AND LIGHT MACHINERY REPAIRED FORD CARS, McFARLAN, 8TANLEY STEAMER, LOCOMOBILE. COLE, REO, CHEVROLET (except Model "490") AND SAJON, alto REO, COMMERCE, LOCOMOBILE AND MORELAND TRUCKS. We carry a complete stock of U. S. L. Batteries and Battery Parts also Automobile and Tire Accessories. 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