University of Hawaii Honolulu - Ka Palapala Yearbook (Honolulu, HI)

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FACULTY HAWAII AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION J. M. WESTGATE The Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station carries out experiments designed to assist in the further development of diversified agriculture in Hawaii nei. It conducts soil and fertilizer studies, breeding and feeding experiments with dairy cows, swine and poultry, as well as cultural, breeding, and variety tests of various promising crops such as coffee, Macadamia nuts, forage crops, fruits and vegetables. Another phase of the work of the station is the development of the policy to utilize student labor to as great an extent as possible in connec- tion with the various operations on the University EXPERIMENT STATION farm, as well as in the dairy, swine department and poultry plant. The students not only earn while learning but from the undergraduates doing the best work, graduate apprentices” are selected at graduation time. These apprentices arc, as far as possible, given a year of practical work in the various branches of work in the dairy, piggery or poultry plant as the case may be, and at the end of their apprenticeship it is felt that they will be able to take charge of a similar line of work any- where in the islands. Two such graduate appren- tices arc already receiving this training. J. M. Westgate ROYAL N. CHAPMAN The Experiment Station of the Association of Hawaiian Pineapple Canners is maintained on and adjacent to the campus of the University of Ha- waii. While it is independently financed by the pineapple industry, its staff is ordinarily consider- ed as a part of the University. While the entire Experiment Station staff is devoted to the study of a single plant, its departments of Agriculture, Chemistry, Entomology, Genetics, Nematology, Pathology, and Physiology are comprised of spe- cialists in the subject matter of each department who are applying their branch of science to the welfare of the pineapple plant. It is a perilous undertaking to support a great industry dependent upon a single variety of plant. Within recent years the interest of the industry has changed from the production of quantity of pineapples to the production of the highest quality at the lowest cost. The program of the Experiment Station is based upon fundamental research in the belief that the one thing that an experiment sta- tion can do for an industry that the industry can- not do for itself is to make fundamental investiga- tions. The industry itself is in a position to make the application of the results.—R. N. Chapman. I 29 )

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FACULTY UNIVERSITY EXTENSION DIVISION ETTA RADKF. WASHBURN The University Extension Division is usually considered that department of the University which provides educational opportunities for adults who arc unable to attend classes as resident students. In reality, its scope is much broader, for it may be said to play a part in the education of each member of a family group from the first grader to grandpapa or grandmama. Its educa- tional films arc viewed by children of all ages in public and private schools, by university students, by members of P.-T.A. associations, men’s and women’s clubs, soldiers and sailors in the Army and Navy, and occasionally by families in their own homes. The public lectures, sponsored by this Division, draw men and women from every walk of life. The extension classes on Oahu and on the other islands serve teachers, social workers, nurses, business men and women, housewives, and persons in many other occupations. The Play Loan Library supplies dramatic material ranging from children’s plays and operettas to three act plays for adults. Thus docs the Extension Division assist in the edu- cation of the younger as well as the older members of the community—Etta R. Washburn. AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE The Agricultural Extension Service of the Uni- versity of Hawaii, U. S. Department of Agricul- ture cooperating, has entered the fifth year of its service. All departments, which include agricul- tural economics, farm management and market- ing, agronomy and horticulture, animal husband- ry, forestry, and an important department of home economics for rural women and 4-H Boys’ and Girls’ Club work for rural youth, have grown uninterruptedly on the solid foundation which the University built a decade before the present agri- cultural extension organization was inaugurated November 1, 1928. ERl-.DERICK G. KRAUS Our ultimate objective is to so enrich Hawaii’s agriculture that its rural people may be as pros- perous and cultured as any of the peoples of our great American commonwealth. To educate the farmer so that he would become so conscious of the great potentialities that lie within him and about him that his daily task would relate itself in his mind, on the one hand to the great world of physical and vital forces and on the other to the evolution of society and the trend of history, and thus create a better world for men, women, boys and girls to live in, is the task the Agricultu- ral Extension Service has consecrated its every effort.—F. G. Krauss. I 28 |

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