ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HAWAII AGRICULTURAL EXPERI- 

 MENT STATION FOR 1901. 



By Jared G. Smith, Special Agent in Charge. 

 INTRODUCTION. 



The establishment of the present agricultural experiment station in 

 the Hawaiian Islands had its inception in the appropriation made by 

 the Fifty-sixth Congress, first session, when the sum of $10,000 was 

 granted to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate the field 

 and establish an experiment station in Hawaii as has been done 

 elsewhere. In pursuance of the act of Congress, Dr. W. C. Stubbs, 

 director of the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Stations, was sent 

 to Hawaii during the summer of 1900, and the results of his inquiry 

 are given in a report transmitted to Congress in January, 1901, and 

 published as House Doc. 368 (Fifty-sixth Congress, second session), 

 and afterwards as Bulletin 95 of the Office of Experiment Stations 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. Stubbs was instructed 

 to investigate the agricultural conditions of the islands, with special 

 reference to the organization, and work of an experiment station. It 

 was recommended by him that the station to be established should be 

 under the control of the Secretary of Agriculture and independent of 

 local institutions. A station for the study of all matters pertaining 

 to the sugar industry has been maintained for a number of years by 

 the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, and as it will continue to 

 prosecute its work upon problems relating to the sugar industry it was 

 believed best that the station to be established under the auspices of 

 the Department of Agriculture should devote its energies chiefly to 

 other agricultural interests. Among the subjects to which it was sug- 

 gested the station should give its attention are the culture of fruits, 

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

 irrigation, and forestry. 



After conferring with the local authorities, the tract known as 

 Kewalo-uka, adjoining the city of Honolulu, was recommended as a 

 site for the station. (PL XXV.) This tract had been set aside by 

 former officials for experimental investigations in agriculture and for- 

 estry. An examination of the records of the former Hawaiian Gov- 

 ernment showed that while there was a very evident intention to reserve 

 this land for experimental purposes, the necessary formalities were 



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