The Transactions of the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society, Volumen1Vol. 1, no. 1 includes a record of the proceedings preliminary to the formation of the Society, in August, 1850. |
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... fields — our worthless plains irrigated and fruitful , and the grass huts now scattered over our land replaced by comfortable farm houses . This is the day of small things in the agri- culture of the Hawaiian Islands , but by no means ...
... fields — our worthless plains irrigated and fruitful , and the grass huts now scattered over our land replaced by comfortable farm houses . This is the day of small things in the agri- culture of the Hawaiian Islands , but by no means ...
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... fields , in ignorance of their co - workers on other islands - in ignorance of each others advantages and disadvan- tages , improvements or wants , and with many of their best sympathies dwarfed and dormant . This is clearly wrong , and ...
... fields , in ignorance of their co - workers on other islands - in ignorance of each others advantages and disadvan- tages , improvements or wants , and with many of their best sympathies dwarfed and dormant . This is clearly wrong , and ...
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... field . After the Mandarins have followed his example , presents are distributed to the peasantry , and the festivities close , to be again renewed when the Emperor comes to sow the seed . A noble tribute this to one of the noblest ...
... field . After the Mandarins have followed his example , presents are distributed to the peasantry , and the festivities close , to be again renewed when the Emperor comes to sow the seed . A noble tribute this to one of the noblest ...
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... field . Though Egypt has ever been for the most part an arid waste covered with burning sands , yet the overflowings of the Nile , united with the industry of her inhabitants , earned for her the reputation of being the granary of the ...
... field . Though Egypt has ever been for the most part an arid waste covered with burning sands , yet the overflowings of the Nile , united with the industry of her inhabitants , earned for her the reputation of being the granary of the ...
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... sixths of her entire population are said to be engaged in the labors of the field , and the products of her soil for the last year have been esti- 1 mated at upwards of 1000 millions of dollars . R. H. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY . 29.
... sixths of her entire population are said to be engaged in the labors of the field , and the products of her soil for the last year have been esti- 1 mated at upwards of 1000 millions of dollars . R. H. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY . 29.
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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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Página 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.
Página 38 - During the years of scarcity, at the end of the last and beginning of the present century...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 34 - He who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor of the race.
Página 39 - ... the application of chemistry to the general purposes of agriculture, the destruction of insects injurious to vegetable life, and the eradication of weeds.
Página 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.