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On my way to Kiila I spent a few most interesting hours of 

 the next day with ^Ir. E. II. Bailey. This gentleman is un- 

 doubtedly the most typical modern American farmer upon 

 these Islands. AA^ell equipped with an agricultural education 

 he grows most successfully wheat, barley, spolz grass, pota- 

 toes, corn, melons, pumpkins, etc., etc. There was an excellent 

 stand of each of these, notwithstanding zhe cut-worn, melon 

 fly, potato rot, aphis and army worm that were devastating 

 adjacent fields. The secret of his success lies, generally 

 speaking, in a thorough knowledge and understanding of the 

 science of agriculture. Specifically speaking, he feeds and 

 cultivates his plants thoroughly and makes good use of appro- 

 priate insecticides. He has no difficulty, he claims, of dis- 

 posing of his products on the Island of Maui to advantage, 

 thus saving cost of distant transportation. His is beyond 

 doubt a model farm, and this is more strongly emphasized by 

 the strong tendency among the neighboring Japanese and 

 Portuguese to imitate him. To an American it was a treat to 

 see Mr. Bailey's farm. I was shown a pile of about 1700 

 pounds of potatoes of uniform, large size. These constituted 

 the first half of a croj? obtained from 160 pounds of potatoes 

 planted in season. 



Haleakala Eanch, by courtesy of ]Mr. L. von Temp- 

 sky was the next stopping place. The time spent 

 upon this ranch was rather short, and horn fly in num- 

 laers was the only insect to attract attention. Mr. von Tempsky 

 also complained of the ravages of aphis on corn. The follow- 

 ing day was spent at the ranch of Mrs. Dora von Tempsky in 

 Kula. It rained rather hard the evening of my arrival, but a 

 trip to the native forest was made nevertheless. Fuller's rose 

 beetle or "Olinda bug" was here in evidence, so was the 

 '' greedy scale" {Aspidiotus rapax, Comst.). The latter was 

 very thick on young koa {Acacia Koa) and lehua, but tlier(> was 

 also evidence that the original destroyers of the native forest 

 are roaming cattle. The older trees when injured are immedi- 

 ately seized upon by various insect pests, native and intro- 

 duced, which kill them in a short time, and the young trees, 

 while they make strenuous efforts to replace the old ones by 

 springing up in clumps here and there and everywhere, are so 



