FOREST AND ORNAMENTAL TREE SEED AND SEEDLINGS FOR
SALE AT THE GOVERNMENT NURSERY.

The Division of Forestry keeps constantly on hand at the Govern-
ment Nursery, seed and seedlings of the important native and introduced
trees. These are sold at prices just covering the cost of collection or
growing.

The list includes both forest and ornamental trees, such as Silk Oak,
Koa, various species of Eucalyptus, Golden and Pink Showers, Pride of
India, Poinciana, Albizzia, etc. The price of the seed varies from 10
to 50 cents per ounce. The seedlings may be had for 22 cents each,
except a few kinds which are 5 cents. Seed of the various palms is also
for sale; the price per 100 varying from $1.00 to $2.50. All seed is tested
before being sent out, which insures its being good.

All communications in regard to seed or trees should be addressed to
David Haughs, Forest Nurseryman, Box 207, Honolulu, Hawaii.

RALPH S. HOSMER,
Superintendent of Forestry.

DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY.

To give information about insects free of charge is one of the duties
of this Division, and Hawaiian readers are hereby invited to make in-
quiry in person and by mail. In order to be able to advise intelligently
or send the right kind of useful insects for relief, we like and sometimes
it is indispensable for us to see the insects suspected or caught in the act,
also specimens of the injury. In a tin with a hole or two, or a wooden
box specimens may be mailed by parcels post. When specimens are
not accompanied by letter always write your name and address in the
upper left-hand corner of the package. Address all communications
SUPERINTENDENT DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY, P. O. BOX 20?
'TONOLULU, HAWAII.

EDW. M. EHRHORN,
Superintendent.

If the municipal authorities fail in their duty to carry out the provisions of the milk ordinance which have to do with the cleanÎiness of dairies from which the public is supplied with milk, upon them will fall the responsibility not only of endangering the health and lives of the people-children in particular-but of preventing Honolulu from making the finest record of any municipal district in the world with respect to pure and wholesome milk supply. For, according to Dr. Nörgaard's official reports, the testing of dairy cattle for tuberculosis has been more effectively accomplished, and that without compensation from the public treasury for cattle that had to be destroyed, in the City and County of Honolulu, comprising the island of Oahu, than in any other jurisdiction of which data has come to hand.

When the milk ordinance was passed, about five years ago, Dr. Nörgaard, the Territorial veterinarian, with the sanction of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, undertook to do the testing of cattle. This was to enable the dairymen to comply with the provision forbidding the sale of milk from tuberculous cows without having to pay professional fees for the service, besides being in accordance with the functions of the agricultural bureau relating to the suppression of diseases of livestock. This undertaking was begun under an arrangement between the committee on animal industry of the Board and the Board of Supervisors, whereby the latter gave money and the assistance of its sanitary inspectors to help the work. Very satisfactory results from this arrangement were achieved, as all who have followed the reports of the veterinarian know. Opponents of the milk ordinance at its inception, who insisted that without a compensation provision the measure would utterly fail, have been proved absolutely mistaken. Tuberculosis has been practically eradicated from the jurisdiction, and not one claim for compensation for hundreds of cattle destroyed has been recorded.

It is regrettable to find, in view of the achievement just mentioned, that the veterinarian is compelled to report failure with regard to the other prime object of the ordinance, that of enforcing sanitation in dairies, which is particularly in the province of the municipal government that enacted the measure. He shows in his July report, printed in this number, that the milk front

many dairies is heavily charged with dangerous bacteria. This is proof that the dairy inspection by the municipality is anything but efficient. It is a condition that the public should not stand for, endangering as it does the health and lives of young and old. The ignorance and prejudice that were hurled at the milk ordinance, before and after its first draft was vetoed by the mayor, arẹ surely of the past since the veterinarian has published figures showing that it has tremendously reduced the number of cases and still more the number of deaths from tuberculosis among children under five years of age-cases by 66 per cent and deaths by 75 per cent, for the year ended June 30, 1913. Such a record must not be allowed to be spoiled by negligence on the part of the municipal inspectors relative to the cleanliness of dairies.

STANDARDIZATION.

With especial reference to cotton growing, the Agricultural News (W. I.) of August 15 devotes its leading article to "Commercial Standardization in Tropical Agriculture." The article mentions sugar as an article the valuation of which has been placed upon a scientific basis, saying that in the case of other crops, in spite of a similar need being experienced, little progress has as yet been made in the direction of standardization. The following opening paragraph of the article is worthy of attention by growers of all tropical products:

"In the production of every class of raw material that has to undergo manufacture before being sold to the consumer, it is very desirable, and indeed necessary, that scientific methods should be available for the precise determination or standardization of the so-called commercial grades. The introduction of a system having this object is particularly favorable to the interests of the producer or grower, for it assists him in forming a true judgment of the market value of consignments, and enables him to frame a definite idea of the class of material he should aim at producing. On the manufacturer's side, also, benefit accrues, from the fact that he is more likely to be supplied with the particular grade he is in need of, and this in uniform quantities.

It is gratifying to learn that the Territorial veterinarian has at last been able to enlist the county governments of the other islands than Oahu in the work of bovine tuberculosis control.

Dr. Nörgaard's zeal in guarding against the introduction of rabies to these islands will one day be appreciated. A single casc of the awful malady slipping in would instantly silence all cavilling at the precautions, but in that event no doubt those who carp at the present restrictions would be first to blame the vet. for letting it happen. Such is human nature.