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ful husbandry may be mentioned tlie development of 

 market demands, the intensified competition among pro- 

 ducers, the general raising of the standard of living in pro- 

 gressive countries, and the dissemination of education. This 

 latter factor has acted as an especial stimulus in this direction as 

 it has been seen that of two men endowed in other respects alike, 

 success has followed the one who possessed the greater store of 

 suitable learning to draw upon. With the factors alluded to at 

 work has come the necessity of larger crop production and of 

 more economical methods of tillage and harvesting. To as- 

 sisting the enhancement of harvest yield, have come, among 

 others, the chemist and the soil expert, who have determined 

 the proper constituents of plant food, and the scientific plant 

 breeder, with special knowledge of the laws determining the 

 establishment of varieties and the evolution of new breeds. 

 The question of economic harvesting has been very generally 

 solved by the mechanical devices of the engineer. 



It is not alone in the plant crops of the farm that this special 

 knowledge to which we have been alluding applies, but the same 

 is necessary to the breeder of all farm stock. With these latter, 

 whether the object aimed at be the profitable production of horses, 

 or sheep, or even the more lowly feathered stock, the most suc- 

 cessful operator will be the one who has the greatest store of 

 suitable knowledge tO' draw upon. The chicken breeder will 

 have more opportunity tO' succeed who has the principles of 

 Mendell's laws of heredity to assist him, than he who is groping 

 in the dark, as miist he whose lore has been learned by merely 

 observing local conditions. 



It is to be noted that the legislative appropriation to which we 

 have alluded does not confine its operation to agricultural educa- 

 tion alone, but embraces in its scope the wide field covered by 

 the mechanic arts. The liberal policy of miaking provision for in- 

 struction in other departments of technical education is to be com- 

 mended, and its influence will doubtless exercise as beneficial ef- 

 fect in other branches of industry as that which we anticipate in 

 agriculture. 



With the establishment of an mstitution in this Territory im- 

 parting a knowledge of the sciences tending to a better knowl- 

 edge of the requirements of every department of husbandry, and 

 affording a technical education in other fields calculated to fit 

 the student for the diversified industries and means of livelihood 

 of the islands, a new impetus will be given to the development of 

 Hawaii. We predict a great work and future for the Agri- 

 cultural College soon to be founded in our midst and wish it all 

 success. 



