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conditions determine and rightly many of the elective courses 

 in schools. A study of the Japanese beetle in the public 

 schools of Hawaii would be a help to the Territory, in Massa- 

 chusetts, the time spent would be ill-advised. In ]\Iassa- 

 chusetts many of the public schools study the gypsy moth 

 and the potato bug. The study of these insects in Hawaii 

 would not bring results. The same is true of rice culture in 

 New England, no benefit would come, proportioned to the 

 time. In Hawaii the reverse is true. 



A schedule of possible subjects to be offered for admission 

 to the Agricultural College, and these subjects well-defined, 

 would act as an inspiration to the public school and would in- 

 duce a course of reading in the home that would rarely be 

 considered without the impetus of a schedule of possible re- 

 quirem.ents. 



With this final suggestion, I am through. The secondary 

 schools of the Territory have a right to demand that their 

 standard be raised by every possible means. A low grade col- 

 lege will lower the standard. A high grade college will raise 

 the standard and increase the efficiency of our secondary 

 schools, and* as the capstone, such a college wall grow into a 

 Territorial University, wdiose graduates will revolutionize the 

 agricultural and industrial life of Havvaii nei. 



WHAT SHOULD THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 

 MEAN TO THE AGRICULTURIST? 



By Mr. Byron O. Clark. 



The modern agricultural college is the outgrowth of a con- 

 dition brought about by the w^asteful, ignorant methods of soil 

 tillers of generations past. 



The day when a worn out farm could be abandoned, and one 

 of virgin fertility obtained farther West for the asking, soon 

 passed: and the agriculturists found themselves face to face 

 with a problem ; the worn out soil must be rejuvenated, or 

 they mast change their occupation. 



True to the American instinct when aroused by necessity, 

 they set about investigating and experimenting; the deeper 

 they w^ent into the subject the more important it jrrew ; and it 

 was necessary to appeal to science through men Avho, although 

 not practical soil tillers, could give from the scientific stand- 

 point of the chemist, some knowledge of the relations of the 

 various soil elements to each other : how each had its afffnity 

 for some other element which, on becoming exhausted from the 

 soil, not only left it deficient in that element, but also irade irs 

 afffnitive element unavailable as plant food. 



