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 WHAT THE COLLEGE CAN DO FOR HAW AH. 



By Walte?- G. Smith, Editor Pacific Conuiiercial Adi'crtiscr, Re- 

 gent of the College of Agriculture. 



It is a very general feeling that the new College of Agricul- 

 ture should do whatever, within its legal scope, will help Ha- 

 waii most. That duty seems to be to encourage, stimulate and 

 bring about, the diversification of our farm industries. Sugar 

 is quite able to look after itself. It has its own scientific 

 laboratories, its own experimental farms, its large staff of 

 trained men, its fine record of achievement. It does not seek 

 or require the scientific aid of the college about to be founded. 

 But tropical farming does need such aid. It asks the help 

 of young men trained to find the right soil for the right crop, 

 to protect that crop from pests, to improve the quality of the 

 product and the magnitude of the ^'ield. If Hawaii can train 

 enough young men to this service then it may regard its future 

 with satisfaction. Idle acres will eventually be turned into 

 good farms. All our industrial eggs will not be carried in one 

 basket. Prosperity, now the privilege of the few, will become 

 the happiness of the many. The Territory will be in shape 

 to get the substantial middle class it needs to "develop along 

 typical American lines." It is a fair question : Could the 

 new college have a more useful mission than this? Is there 

 any worthier work for it to do? 



The dream of a Hawaii of farms and homes is not an illusive 

 one. There is nothing in frost and ice and rugged soil and 

 angry skies to guarantee a success in agriculture which is 

 denied to sunshine and rain, fertile volcanic earth and tem- 

 perate breezes. People who go into farming for staples and 

 make money in competition with millions of others have no 

 reason to fear the results when they go into farming for luxu- 

 ries, w^hich everybody wants and but few produce. Instead of 

 being a place to avoid in agriculture, Hawaii is a place to seek. 

 Sugar uses but 200,000 acres out of a total area, good and bad 

 land, of 4,250.000 acres; and there is room for a multitude of 

 people to grow other things than sugar. To help them do it 

 would appear to be the best and highest ol^iject of the College of 

 Agriculture. 



THE RELATION OF SECONDARY EDUCATION TO THE 

 AGRKTHTURAL COLLEGE. 



By Perlcy L. Home, Principal Kainchaincha Schools. 



Secondary schools usually include schools below^ the college 

 and above the intermediate and low grammar. In Honolulu, 

 secondary schools would naturally include Oahu College, the 



