Old time Hawaiians and their work . rojection of wood fastened at the tip of the paddle on oneside) was put on the best paddles. If you cannot carve a canoe, you may model one in clay or draw apicture of one. FARMING The Hawaiians were skillful farmers, who raised taro, sweet potatoes, yams, sugar cane, and bananas, for food. Taro was the principal food of the people who lived in the valleys, where there wasplenty of water for irriga-tion. The cultivation of itrequired much labor. Up-land taro was raised in drysoil, but the most commonvariety grew in wet soil. When the farmers startedtaro patc
Old time Hawaiians and their work . rojection of wood fastened at the tip of the paddle on oneside) was put on the best paddles. If you cannot carve a canoe, you may model one in clay or draw apicture of one. FARMING The Hawaiians were skillful farmers, who raised taro, sweet potatoes, yams, sugar cane, and bananas, for food. Taro was the principal food of the people who lived in the valleys, where there wasplenty of water for irriga-tion. The cultivation of itrequired much labor. Up-land taro was raised in drysoil, but the most commonvariety grew in wet soil. When the farmers startedtaro patches they dividedthe land near a stream intosquares arranged in terracesso that the water could runfrom one to the other. Thenthese patches were sepa-rated by banks of earth andstones, and the surface wastrodden down to make it water-tight. Water was carried from the stream by means of the weeds were pulled out, the ground was soakedand harrowed, and the //?///, or top sprouts, were plantedin rows in the muddy soil. 34. Taro Plant FARMING 35 When the taro was well started, water was let in, andkept there until the taro was ripe. For six months itwas weeded, but after that, weeding would have injuredthe plant. In twelve or fifteen months the leaves began to turnyellow. The people first trampled between the plants toloosen the roots, and then pulled them up. The leavesand roots were cut off with a sharp shell knife, and thestem with the new shoot was thrown on the bank for thenext planting. People who lived on the kula, or dry lands, dependedupon upland taro and sweet potatoes for food. The upland taro grew upon dry soil and needed nospecial watering. The tool for digging was the o-o, astick of hard wood sharpened at one end. The stemswere planted in rows. There were many varieties of sweet potatoes. Afterplanting them in hills the family would sometimes leavethem to grow without any attention, and go off to visittheir friends. In four or five months they would retur
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