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.v. N. ARMSTRONG EDITOR.
MONDAY
NOV KM BE It 6
"Love is the beginning, the middle
ml the end of everything."
Lacordaire.
THE EXPERIMENTAL STATION.
They have the right to expect from
the scientific farmer better results from
cane cultivation than they can secure
themselves, just as they expect better
results from the employment of
mechanical engineers in mill work.
MAJOR M. W.WOOD1 Real Merit
Is the chracterhi!cor Hoor Krvajv.
; rilla, and it Li manifested cvrry day in t lu
re mar kable cure tbi medicine rr.
WE
A EiiENCH SCIENTIST
Physicians of City Regret i,,Uhw- iuscm m.v. whm w wii
bottle of ILkx! S4rrrilU to i nrw
JtllS UeDaVlUre ' tuMuawr bp rr fure 10 mi: mm urk in I
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Dr. Walter Maxwell's report on the
"Work of the Experiment Station and
Laboratories" presents an excellent ex
ample of what science can do. It is not
what science can do for the student
but -what it can do for the planter.
Every step in the experiments made in
the growing of cane at the station are
made on the soil itself, and not in the
laboratory or on paper. Upon twenty
plats of land, twenty different methods
of cultivation have been tried, with an
accuracy which only the thoroughly
trained scientist, who has also studied
in the field can make. The report
should -be carefully read not only by the
planters, but every one who holds any
sugar stocks. For there are in it, data
and suggestions which indicate clearly j
what the history of Hawaiian cane cul
tivation will be, and how the value of
sugar stock will decline unless the
teachings of science are carefully fol
lowed. : '-...!
The report is so compact, filling
thirty pages of the Planters' Monthly,
that an abstract of its contents is im
possible. Only a few items in it are
here mentioned which will interest the
general reader. On these nineteen
plats, situated near Punahou, the
amount of sugar raised when calculated
per acre, amounted on the average to
thirteen tons. All of the plats were
irrigated, more or less. Nineteen were
fertilized and one plat was not. The
closest account was taken of the weight
ol the cane, and the sucrose in it.
Fertilizers vyere applied, in different
combinations, to each plat. The soil
was analysed in advance.
The analyses and calculations now
furnished develop interesting and
Startling conclusions. The cane feeds
mainly on nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash. There are G519 lbs. of nit
rogen in one acre of the soil, to a depth
of fifteen inches. The first crop of cane
tin these plats took out 3Gf lbs. of this
Jiitrogen, showing that seventeen crops
would entirely exhaust the nitrogen in
it. The same proposition is generally
true of potash and phosphoric acid.
The crop of Rose bamboo cane re
moved from the soil, per acre, 164 lbs.
of phosphoric acid, 1140 lbs. of potash,
and 412 lbs. of nitrogen. Unless these
fertilizers are restored to the soil the
crops must inevitably decrease. These
fertilizers are costly, but they cannot
.be withheld if the yield of sugar is
maintained. The natural resources of
tho soil, under high cultivation, be
come quickly, exhausted and the yield
must fail, unless there Js constant re--storation
of fertility.
'If the money value of these ingre
dients Is taken, it will be seen that at
no distant period, the cost of fertiliza
tion will be a very serious one on
many plantations. The value of sugar
stocks will not be taken from the lists
of the stock exchange by the intelligent
investors, but from an inspection of the
methods of cultivation of the land. A
thief may steal the plantation's money
or carry off some of its cane, but a
robbery of the soil, the most valuable
-of the assets, may not be discovered
until it is toqJUUe to recover the goods
Henri Leveque de Vilmorin, who.
recently died near Paris, France, is an-
other of the few men who do not pass !
into a state of torpidity, vhen pos- ;
sessed of wealth. He was a member of
the firm of Vilmorin, Audrieux & Co.. !
manufacturers of beet sugar. His
father had studied the beet industry i
with care and the son determined to j
use his large wealth, and his brains in !
iunm nig uie piants. tie uiu not re
sort to experimental stations, which
exist and are necessary because the
t if mo ruin
cultivator cannot or does not use his ! Garvin and Mr. Shorey.
nwn hminQ ti r,tr.t,i : Food Commissioner Shorcy re?.d
Resolutions are AiotteJ-Prcf . Shcrey Te
oi ro uiK....u-,...H F po-ic by virtue of th Ktruliar Co::i-
turnci By & Vote. Mnation, Proportion and IVoj umU In
it preparation, nnd by which all tic
remedial value- of the ingredients u.d
I . ? a
ismaineu. uoou i San4;r:lU N thu
Peculiar to Itelf and aUolut.ly un
equalled in its power as a t.!o,i porlrW,
and a a tonic for building up the mate
and weary, and givimr t.rnt!a to the
Drs. Day, Emerson. Rhodes. Cooper. ' nerve-. I sure to et
Sloggett. Yule. Alvarez, Hoffman and
niT?nFPATir
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' Th Medical Association held itjt reg
ular meeting on Saturday evening at
the offices of Dr." C. B. Cooper. There
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were present Surgeon Major Wood,
very interesting paper on food adulteration.
J Hood's Sarsaparilla
periments and was noted for making
the most systematic study of the here
dity of plants. While his father is
known as one who developed a race
of beets of remarkable richness, the
son broadened his father's experiments
and for the purpose of imnrbvinsr m'anv
other plants. The French, the English. . ASthe cl?sr. f lhe mee.linf l,ho f,j- I
. . ' ' lowing resolutions were adopted and it
tne lie.gian, the Italian governments i -nc fnrti.r rp.fvn.i timr two wmtoJ
rwirrrl unit t 1 tt..i c. . . I
Dr. Day moved a vote of thanks to ! '"H , ' V, ' ;
Mr. Shorey which was carried unani- j ! ' .
mously, and a request tnat the paper
be published was made and granted.
Dr. Sloggett reported a case of rellex
blindness, which he had recently
treated.
Hnnd'c Pille M,,!,-"n! !;" t-. takp
iuuu 2 ruis uithii-HrrvaIvkri:u ;
"decorated" him for his valuable con
tribution to the practical side of life.
There were many thousands of
farmers in Fiance, who were anxious
to better their condition by increasing
the yield and quality of the beet juice,
but science to them was only a dark
night into which they stared with
meaningless gaze. Vilmorin and the
men like him with the eyes of thought
trained to look Into blank space
"Through man and woman, and sea
and star,
Saw the dane of nature forward far."
By bo much as the least improve
ment in the quality of vegetables and
flowers, which his close scientific obser
vation obtained, he contributed to the
sum of human happiness, and, if we are
humbly permitted to believe it, laid up
reasure for himself In the vaults be
yond the stars. He was one of the
ew men, now fortunately increasing
n numbers, who have extricated them-
selvekfrom the barbaric environments
of material prosperity and reallv left
the world better than they found it.
The analyses show that while the
mineral .matter taken from an acre of
soil amounts to 745 lbs. in .the cane
itself, the amount of mineral matter
in the cane leaves tis much greater
being 5478 lbs. Wherever the leaves
are burnt up at trasli,. just as much
valuable matter, cpntaiuing nitrogen is
scattered to the winds. : It is throwing
coin into the sea. i
The practice on the plantations gen
erally is to use one hundred millions
of gallons of water per day, to irrigate
and care for one hundred acres of cane
land. The experiments at the station
shows that one. hundred milions gal
ions per day should sufficiently irrigate
four hundred acres. If this result is
verified by further experiments, it
shows that three-fourths of the water
now used is simply wasted or lost.
The money value of this fact rises into
the millions and may, in time, recon
struct the irrigation processes.
The work of the experimental sta
t;on is still in its beginning. Dr. Max
well advances his conclusions cautious
jy ana tentatively. Mucn remains to
he done. Nature does not cast her
valuable secrets into the streets to be
picked up by the idlers. She yields
them only at the persistent demand of
the thinker and investigator. The ex
perimental stations of the Mainland
have done more for the advancement
o? agriculture in fifteen years than the
inexact, desultory and guessing work
of the farmer, for a century.
.Neither the farmer nor the planter
&
should be discredited. Both are stumb
ling over valuable nuggets in the field.
. But it ' is work by. the rule of thumb.
of the resolutions be engrossed, one for
presentation to Major Wood and the
other to be sent to Washington.
Whereas. Maior Marshall W. Wood.
surgeon United States Army, an hon
orary member of this association, has
been called from Honolulu, and
Whereas. Major Wood has by his
learning, urbanity and strict adherence
to the ethics of the profession at all
times won the respect and esteem of
the members ol this association:
therefore be it
Resolved, by tlu Medical Association
of Hawaii, That we contemplate with
sincere regret the departure of Major
Wood from our midst and heartily
wish for him In his new field of labor
such conditions as may be commensur
ate with his rich deserts.
Moved by Dr. R. P. Meyers; second
ed by Dr. C. L. Garvin.
Honolulu. II. I.. November 4, IV.".1.
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SUGAR IN JK74.
In 1874 Chas. Nordhoff visited these
slands and wrote a book about them.
He stated that there were thirty-four
sugar plantations. He was informed
that the planters who were out of debt,
and did not borrow, did well. But the
planters and their agents never acted
n concert. The agents took the pro
fits of the plantations, because the rates
of interest were high and the commis
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