362 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



never fully carried out. Subsequently 20 acres was reserved by Presi- 

 dential proclamation as a site for a hospital for the Navy Department, 

 and 7 acres for the same purpose for the Marine-Hospital Service 

 under the Treasury Department. 



Acting upon the suggestions made in the preliminary report, Con- 

 gress appropriated $12,000 for continuing the work during the current 

 fiscal year, and immediate measures were taken to establish and equip 

 a station in accordance with the above recommendations. Accord- 

 ingly the writer was transferred to the Office of Experiment Stations 

 from the Section of Seed and Plant Introduction of the Department of 

 Agriculture, and was charged with the responsibility of beginning the 

 work of organization of the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station. 

 In carrying out my instructions I left Washington, D. C, March 21, 

 1901, arriving in Honolulu on April 5, and at once began active opera- 

 tions to carry out the desires of the honorable Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture as I understood them. 



A temporary office was secured in the Territorial capital building 

 and was fitted up with desks, office furniture, bookcases, etc. 



DETAILED REPORT OF WORK. 



The period from April 5 to Ma}^ 15 was occupied in making prelim- 

 inary surveys of the land which had been set apart for the use of the 

 station, the Kewalo-uka tractfin Makiki Valley, adjacent to the city of 

 Honolulu. This tract, containing 154 acres, lying along the southeast 

 slope of the Punchbowl and Tantalus ridge, is nearly 2 miles long and 

 has a maximum width of about 300 yards at its lowest portion, nearest 

 the cit} r , and about 100 yards at the upper end. The elevation ranges 

 from 125 feet, nearest the city, to 1,350 feet on the end nearest Mount 

 Tantalus, the height of that peak being 2,013 feet. 



Although the preliminary arrangements had been entered into in 

 September, 1900, between the governor of the Territory and Dr. 

 Stubbs, yet the formal transfer did not take place until June 10, 1901, 

 when two tracts were reserved to the Territory, one of 10 acres as a 

 stone quarry and a second of 52 acres on the slopes and within the 

 crater of Punchbowl Hill, which was reserved for a public park. By 

 the courtesy of the Secretary of the Navy this Department was granted 

 the temporary use of the naval hospital site for experimental purposes. 

 The work of clearing land and erecting buildings was begun with as little 

 delay as possible. Twenty-four acres, comprising all of the Naval 

 Hospital Reservation and land adjacent to it, was cleared of a dense 

 growth of guava and lantana bushes, prickly pear, and algaroba or 

 mesquite bean woods. (PI. XXVI, fig. 1.) The contract under which 

 the work was performed called for the removal of all tree stumps and 

 roots and plowing the land to the depth of 20 inches. This work was 



