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Excerpt from All About the Hawaii Experiment Station
Project N o. 2. Tobacco Investigations. Object: To determine the possibility of growing cigar leaf tobaccos in Hawaii. The experiment has been under way three years. In 1906 four acres of tobacco were planted on Lot 17, Paauilo Homesteads, which was reserved from sale for the use of the Experiment Station by the Commissioner of Public Lands. A large modern curing barn with stringing and fermenting rooms has been con structed. The cr0p when harvested and cured will be sold in order to determine the market value of the product. The cost of this experiment is being borne out of the appropriation made by the Territorial Legislature for assistance to the Hawaii Ex periment Station. And by contribution from private sources. The 1904 cr0p was small and was distributed among tobacco mer chants in sample lots; none of this cr0p was sold. A portion ofthe 1905 cr0p was sold to a Seattle cigar manufacturer, made up into cigars and then sent back to Hawaii. Preliminary estimates of the value of the 1906 crop are that there will be pounds of wrapper leaf of high qualitv. The product of both Cuban and Sumatra types is of fine quality, superior in texture, burning quali ties and aroma, to most of the mainland tobacco and comparable with that of the countries from which the seed was obtained. The Station will discontinue the demonstration whenever private enterprise takes up the cultivation of tobacco. Project No. 3, Rubber Investigations. Object: To determine the influence which cultivation and the use of fertilizers may have on the yield and quality of commercial rubber. Cooperative experiments have been planned in connection with one of the Nahiku rubber companies; also with the Territorial Board of Agriculture and Forestry in an investigation of the two old groves of Ceara rubber recently discovered on the island of Kauai. Pot experiments are being carried on at the Station to determine the influence of fertilizers on the growth of rubber trees, by the transpiration method. A beginning has also been made toward a collection of species of rubber yielding plants on the Station reservation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
