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or honey or 5 pounds coarse sugar. If sugar is used, moisten the 

 bran with water. Stir and mix thoroughly and scatter over the 

 field. 



Poisoned horse-manure is safer than poisoned bran and some- 

 what cheaper. Pokos and army worms like it fully as well as the 

 sweetened bran and cattle, chickens and other domestic animals 

 are less liable to be poisoned through eating it. The Japanese 

 beetle seems to prefer the poisoned bran. 



The field being prepared and the plants ready, they can be set 

 out at any time of the year when the soil is in a moist condition 

 and the sky is clouded. Plant only good, strong, healthy plants 

 in the field. It is poor economy to set a sickly plant anywhere 

 and give it care and cultivation, with but little chance for a re- 

 turn from it for the time and labor expended. 



It can hardly be expected, and especially in Hawaii, that every 

 seed will grow and produce an ideal plant. Such has not been 

 our experience. It seems to be a characteristic of tropical coun- 

 tries, and, to this Hawaii is no exception, that cultivated plants 

 show marked individual variation in their growth. Some plants, 

 even of types that show unformity when grown in cooler lands, 

 when grown in hot countries break up into a number of forms. 

 There must be enough good plants to reset in the places of those 

 that fail to grow or vary from the type. 



The tap-root of a tobacco plant is its anchor. In planting, it 

 should be kept as straight as possible. The growth and success 

 of the plant depends upon this being carefully looked after. Our 

 experience has been that eight out of ten plants that failed to 

 make a good growth could be traced to a deformed tap-root or 

 careless transplanting. 



In taking up young plants from seed-beds or boxes, use a point- 

 ed stick to run under the plants wanted, and, with a prying and 

 twisting motion, this plant is so loosened that, taking it by the 

 tips of the top leaves, it can be lifted from the soil with most of 

 its roots intact. Do not take hold of a small plant at the growing 

 bud, for it will be bruised, no matter how lightly handled. If the 

 plants are large, they may be handled at the base of the stalk far 

 better than by the leaves when planting out in the field. 



Pack the plants carefully in a broad, shallow basket or tray, 

 provided with a handle and keep covered from the air and the 

 sun. If the field is near, do not lift too many at one time. Do 

 not place any of the plants in water, as it causes all lateral roots 



