REPORT OF THF SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. LXXIII 



ommendations regarding the location, equipment, organization, and 

 lines of work of the proposed experiment station in that Territory. 

 It was recommended that the station be established under the direct 

 control of this Department and independent of existing local institu- 

 tions. As the station already maintained by the Hawaiian Sugar Plant- 

 ers' Association will continue its work on problems relating to the 

 sugar industry, it was recommended that the station to be established 

 by this Department give its attention to other agricultural interests. 



it was pointed out that among the subjects to which the station 

 should give special attention were the culture of fruit, vegetables, 

 rice, forage crops, stock raising, dairying, coffee growing, irrigation, 

 and forestry. As the headquarters for the station, it was recom- 

 mended that the reservation which the Hawaiian Government had sur- 

 veyed and mapped in 1893 for an experimental and forestry station be 

 secured. This is a tract of 'I'l^ acres near Honolulu, known as Kewalo- 

 uka. with an elevation ranging from 50 to 1.000 feet and containing 

 cleared and forest land. On the basis of this report a second appropria- 

 tion of *il:^.000 was made for the maintenance of an experiment station 

 in Hawaii during the current fiscal year. Immediately on the passage 

 of this appropriation act I took measures for the establishment of an 

 experiment station in Hawaii on a permanent basis. As in the case of 

 the stations in Alaska, the general supervision of the Hawaiian P^xperi- 

 ment Station was assigned to the Director of the Office of Experiment 

 Stations, As the active manager of a new station Mr. .Tared G. 

 Smith, chief of the Section of Seed and Plant Introduction of this 

 Department, was selected and transferred to the Ofiice of Experiment 

 Stations as the special agent in charge of the Hawaii Experiment Sta- 

 tion. He left Washington near the end of March, 1901, and proceeded 

 without delay to Honolulu. y^\Xh. instructions to establish headquarters 

 there and to ))egin the organization of regular experiment-station 

 work. 



As a site for the station he was to secure possession of the tract of 

 land in Honolulu known as Kewalo-uka. and on this to l>egin the 

 clearing and fencing of land and the erection of buildings. In mak- 

 ing plans for experimental work he was instracted — 



to consider especially the needs of the f>eople of the Hawaiian Islands as regards the 

 production of food supplies for home consumption, and the development of animal 

 industry, dairying, and coffee culture, and to extend aid to the people of the differ- 

 ent localities throughout the islands for the improvement and development of local 

 agricultural industries through the distribution of seeds, plants, and publications, 

 the gi\'ing of ad\'ice by correspondence and otherwise, and the institution of coop- 

 erative experiments. 



He was urged to enlist the cordial support and sympathy of the 

 Hawaiian government and people in this enterprise, and he was to 

 announce that it would be the policy of the Department "to encour- 

 age the granting of financial assistance to the station b^' the Hawaiian 



