There is little doubt but that by ascertaining the best season for planting (which can only be done by actual experiment in each locality,) corn will flourish in every district on every Island in the group. OATS are found to flourish well at Makawao and Kula, on Maui, and would doubtless do equally well in other favorable localities. Their culture, however, down to the present time has been too limited to furnish facts sufficient to base any well founded theory upon. BARLEY. This grain has been introduced, and so far as it has been tried promises to do well in our climate and on our soil.”

Respectfully submitted,

WM. H. RICE.

MALU MALU, KAUAI, May 20th, 1853. Hon. William L. Lee, President of the R. H. Agricultural Society: SIR: In compliance with your suggestion, you have herewith a statement relative to the cultivation of corn, at this place.

Nine acres were planted early in September last, in rows four feet apart, six grains of corn to the hill. Some shoots appeared above ground on the third day; on the fourth all were up. The weather was very favorable; clear warm days and showery nights. The corn met with no depredations from the cut worm, but grew rapidly; when two weeks old the caterpillars overrun it, extensively, and would have exterminated it, but for an active warfare waged upon them, by a force of men, women and turkeys, which thinned them, until the corn grew beyond their reach. When the blades became too coarse for their appetites, they transferred their attacks to the core of the stalk, where the turkies could not find them, and, from whence they had to be dislodged by hand. In the fifth week, the corn was over knee high; the surplus stalks were pulled, leaving four to each hill; the earth loosened about the roots with the hoe, and the weeds kept down. In the tenth week, the corn was fit for the table.

Early in December, before all the ears had attained their full growth, a violent S. W. gale which lasted some days, laid every stalk in the field flat upon the ground, and in this state the corn was left, with almost continual rainy weather, until it was harvested in January, just four months, from planting The yield averaged about 16 bushels to the acre.

In the middle of December, a time said by people hereabout, to be a favorable season for planting corn, a twelve acre lot was planted. The blades did not appear until the 5th or 6th day, and their growth was scarcely perceptible from day to day, until the end of January, when the whole field took a start; the weather meanwhile, having been stormy, from S. W., with much rain. The caterpillar did not trouble this field, and the cause of its failure must have lain in the wet season and want of sun, for, although, nearly every grain of corn sowed came up and attained finally a dwarfish growth, the majority of the stalks were too feeble to bear an ear. The ears that did form were not fit for eating until 16 weeks from planting, or for harvesting under 5 months. The crop was just one cart load.

On the 1st of March this field was furrowed between the rows of the standing corn and replanted; the blade did not appear until the 5th day, and grew afterwards very slowly. Much raw and cloudy weather. The cut-worm now made its appearance for the first time, and destroyed about one-half the field. The caterpillars came again and nearly finished the other half, attacking the shoots just as they came above ground and killing them so quickly as to render futile the efforts of woman and turkies against the worm. A few ears escaped and had every attention with the hoc, but were as backward in growth as the December planting, which would evidently have been the case with the whole had the worms not touched it.

This field has just been harrowed and cross furrowed; the weather is warm and favorable, and better fortune will probably result.

Early in February 3 1-2 acres were planted in a piece of low land with no better success than the attempt in December-a very backward and dwarfish growth. The yield will be very trifling. The better cars are only now fit for the table.

In the middle of April 11 acres were planted among the Kukui groves during warm, clear days. No shoots up until the 4th day. The cutworm has destroyed about 3 acres of this field. The caterpillar has not touched it. What remains is now growing finely, and will probably yield well.

If this experience is to be any criterion, the winter months are not the ones for planting corn here. The cut-worm is to be dreaded in the early spring, and the caterpillar, perhaps, at all times during the year.

A corn-planter, imported by Mr Chamberlain, has been in use, and, one light horse and two coolies, covers 12 acres in two days, a much more rapid and satisfactory method than by hand. One man or boy is sufficient to attend the barrow, if the horse is properly broken.

A cultivator is very useful in keeping down weeds and in loosening the soil, and performs the work of a multitude of hoes in native hands.

Corn pulled in January, and kept loose in open barrels, has been free from weevils up to this time; and corn meal ground in March is still sweet.

From this brief and imperfect experience it is not possible to say that corn is a safe crop for the farmer to rely upon; but further trials, and a better knowledge of the proper season, may make its growth a profitable matter, if there shall be a ready market for it at Honolulu. Very respectfully your obedient servant,

WM. REYNOLDS.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NEAT CATTLE.

The committee appointed to report on neat cattle regret that their notice of the transactions in cattle farming of the last year, must be very meagre indeed. In fact they have nothing to say except that a very large number of cattle of all ages, sizes and qualities has been slaughtered, and that a few large lots have changed hands since they last had the honor to address the Society.

During the past year a horse and a mare have been imported; several Merinos have been introduced from Australia, and some excellent pigs have been brought from various places, but the owners of the large herds of cattle seem to be content to go on in the old South American semi-barbarous fashion, breeding in and in and continuing steadily to deteriorate the breed of cattle here.

The large quantity of fresh meat, principally beef, consumed yearly by the whaling fleet, and by vessels touching here for supplies, is not included in any of the lists of exports, and yet it forms virtually a very large item of exported produce. As it is all paid for in cash too,

one would imagine that the graziers might find it worth their while to endeavor to produce a superior article; but numbers, not quality, seem to be the sole object of their wishes. ·

The committee beg to remind the graziers that the improved breeds of cattle are as fit for the market at three years old as the unimproved. breeds at five and six, making a difference of two years at least to the breeder.

The milking qualities of the cattle here are of the lowest order, dairy cows not averaging over one pound of butter a week, and yielding even that small quantity during a very short period. The Ayrshire cattle are celebrated in England, in the United States and in Australia for the very large quantities of milk and butter which they yield, and they do not require the very luxuriant pastures and high feeding, which are indispensable to the short horns. The oxen of this breed are not so large as the Durhams, but will get fat and thrive in pastures inferior to those required by the Durham. From their thriftiness this breed is as well adapted for the small farmer, who endeavors to keep a few milch cows, as to the large grazier who wishes to grow beef; and the committee on neat cattle respectfully suggest to the President and to the Society, whether it would not be advisable to offer a premium for the introduction of an Ayrshire Bull and cow to these Islands. Many of our pastures are capable of amelioration, and as we have an abundant stock of cows to start from, a little care and the introduction of a foreign Bull now and then, would in a few years completely change the character of our herds; and how encouraging it is to know that no change can be for the

worse.

The committee on neat cattle consider that they are not travelling out of their province, in saying a few words on the subject of horses, because the amount of available pasturage on the Islands is a matter which they are bound to take into consideration, when making their report on cattle. They would call the attention of the Society to the vast number of useless horses, which are increasing every day and consuming, in the most unprofitable manner, the food which might be better employed. Beef and hides, mutton and wool add to the wealth of the country, but the great majority of horses are not used to till

the ground, to carry burdens, or to drive cattle. They consume a vast amount of food which might be more profitably employed, they deteriorate the grazing lands, and are a main cause of the habits of laziness and vagrancy unfortunately so prevalent among the natives. The committee on cattle would therefore (with reference to the subject on which they have been called on to report) suggest to the society whether it would not be desirable to endeavor to procure some legal enactment to reduce or keep within bounds the number of useless horses. The Stallion Bill passed by the Legislature of 1852 is a piece of law-making beneath contempt, as its sole object seems to be to give the Minister of the Interior the power of appointing Inspectors whose business it is to impose a tax on such horses as they approve of, while they have no power to impose a penalty on the parties who keep bad stallions, nor to order the castration of the animals. In conclusion, the committee would suggest to the graziers that every one of them should attempt, no matter on how small a scale at first, to improve our pastures by the introduction of clover and lucerne. R. MOFFIT.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CAPITAL AND BANKING. At the last annual meeting of the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society, Messrs. E. H. Allen, S. N. Castle, R. C. Wyllie, G. P. Judd and B. F. Snow were, with myself, appointed a committee on capital and banking. Either of these gentlemen, if he would devote his attention to the subject, would, no doubt, make a report of more practical value than any that I can offer; but as my name is placed first on the committee, I suppose they consider the duty as properly devolving on me. I have, therefore, committed to paper some of the views I have taken of the matter, not offering them as the opinions of the committee, for I am doubtful whether all the committee will agree with me in every respect, and the more doubtful, as I have heretofore held somewhat different opinions myself. Perhaps some of them may commit their views to writing or express them verbally.