The Transactions of the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society, Volume 1Vol. 1, no. 1 includes a record of the proceedings preliminary to the formation of the Society, in August, 1850. |
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... kind offices , the awakening of a spirit of industry and frugality ; and the diffusion of light and knowledge throughout the Islands in relation to every branch of agriculture . Nor is this the end of benefits expected to flow from this ...
... kind offices , the awakening of a spirit of industry and frugality ; and the diffusion of light and knowledge throughout the Islands in relation to every branch of agriculture . Nor is this the end of benefits expected to flow from this ...
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... kind and generous traits perish from the face of the earth ! Perish too , not by famine , nor pestilence , nor the sword , but by the rust of indo- lence the canker of sloth . Must they die ! Will we let them die , without making one ...
... kind and generous traits perish from the face of the earth ! Perish too , not by famine , nor pestilence , nor the sword , but by the rust of indo- lence the canker of sloth . Must they die ! Will we let them die , without making one ...
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... kind of notary and interpreter for the King . It may not be out of place , here to remark that on the 30th of Oc- tober , and 26th of November , 1814 , and on the 6th of January , 1815 , he records three successive and peremptory orders ...
... kind of notary and interpreter for the King . It may not be out of place , here to remark that on the 30th of Oc- tober , and 26th of November , 1814 , and on the 6th of January , 1815 , he records three successive and peremptory orders ...
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... kind of farming utensils was wanted - not to be had , to carry on so great an undertaking . Carts , ploughs , hoes , -all were very scarce . Expedients had to be resorted to . The land was mostly prepared by natives with the oɔ or ...
... kind of farming utensils was wanted - not to be had , to carry on so great an undertaking . Carts , ploughs , hoes , -all were very scarce . Expedients had to be resorted to . The land was mostly prepared by natives with the oɔ or ...
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... kind , may , casu- ally viewed , appear unimportant . Yet , by rendering available to each planter , the experience of his predecessors as well as cotemporaries , much time is saved which is otherwise lost in the repetition of fruitless ...
... kind , may , casu- ally viewed , appear unimportant . Yet , by rendering available to each planter , the experience of his predecessors as well as cotemporaries , much time is saved which is otherwise lost in the repetition of fruitless ...
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abundant acres amount animals annual appointed Bank better breed capital cattle Chairman climate coffee commenced committee coolies corn crop cultivation culture dollars earth England exhibited experience export farmer fence flowers foreign fowls fruit garden grain grow Hanalei Hawaii Hawaiian Agricultural Society Hawaiian Islands Honolulu horses implements important improvement increase insects interest introduced islands J. F. B. Marshall Janion Kauai L. L. Torbert labor Lahaina land larvæ lime manufacture manure Maui meeting Messrs molasses Molokai native Oahu obtained Pine Apple Pitman plant plantation planters plough potatoes poultry premiums present President produce profitable proper quantity R. G. DAVIS R. W. Wood raised Royal Hawaiian Agricultural salt season seed sheep soil Stephen Reynolds success sugar cane sweet potato T. E. Taylor tion trees United variety vegetable vine wheat worm
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Page 63 - And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 38 - During the years of scarcity, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century...
Page 89 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 11 - Resolved, That the thanks of the Society, be presented to the Hon. SA Douglass, for his eloquent and practical address, and that he be requested to furnish a copy of the same for publication in the Transactions of the Society.
Page 112 - He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat : and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
Page 125 - There is now and then one who is constantly saying " things arn't as they used to be," and croaking about " new fangled machines," and saying,. " there is nothing like the good old way." But the good old way of going to mill on horseback with the corn in one end of the bag and a stone in the other...
Page 36 - ... charged with collecting and diffusing information, and enabled by premiums, and small pecuniary aids, to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement. This species of establishment contributes doubly to the increase of improvement, by stimulating to enterprise and experiment, and by drawing to a common centre the results everywhere of individual skill and observation, and spreading them thence over the whole nation. Experience accordingly has shown, that they are very cheap instruments...
Page 34 - He who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor of the race.
Page 39 - ... the application of chemistry to the general purposes of agriculture, the destruction of insects injurious to vegetable life, and the eradication of weeds.
Page 11 - Biddle, of Pennsylvania, it was Resolved, That the thanks of the Association be tendered to the President for his able and interesting address, and that he be requested to furnish a copy of it to the Committee of Publication.