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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... produce and to report at our next annual meeting . Com- mittee , B. Pitman , Chairman , G. S. Kenway , Preston Cummings , L. L. Torbert , J. T. Gower , H. S. Swinton , C. R. Bishop , F. Wunden- burg , George Gilmore . Voted , That this ...
... produce and to report at our next annual meeting . Com- mittee , B. Pitman , Chairman , G. S. Kenway , Preston Cummings , L. L. Torbert , J. T. Gower , H. S. Swinton , C. R. Bishop , F. Wunden- burg , George Gilmore . Voted , That this ...
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... produce the most unimportant crop is suffered to run to waste . The steepest hill - sides and most precipitous mountains are cut into terraces and cultivated to their very tops . The rivers that flow along their bases are taken from ...
... produce the most unimportant crop is suffered to run to waste . The steepest hill - sides and most precipitous mountains are cut into terraces and cultivated to their very tops . The rivers that flow along their bases are taken from ...
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... produce annual- ly between 350 and 400 millions of bushels of grain , and her agricul ture is not only of vital interest to the twenty - seven millions of inhabi tants , whom it feeds , but a matter of no small moment to the whole ...
... produce annual- ly between 350 and 400 millions of bushels of grain , and her agricul ture is not only of vital interest to the twenty - seven millions of inhabi tants , whom it feeds , but a matter of no small moment to the whole ...
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... produce more than we con- sume , —until our surplus produce afford an export exceeding what we import , we can make no advance in wealth or prosperity . In all coun- tries the products of the earth , and the animals it sustains form the ...
... produce more than we con- sume , —until our surplus produce afford an export exceeding what we import , we can make no advance in wealth or prosperity . In all coun- tries the products of the earth , and the animals it sustains form the ...
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... produce . Besides a fine climate and good soil , we are free from taxation on our land , and in California and Oregon we have an unlimited market . A market too , which , owing to our proximity to those countries , will enable us to ...
... produce . Besides a fine climate and good soil , we are free from taxation on our land , and in California and Oregon we have an unlimited market . A market too , which , owing to our proximity to those countries , will enable us to ...
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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.