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DIVISION OF FORESTRY.

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 scll at prices just cove ing the cost of collection or
growing.

The list includes 1th forest and ornan ental trees, such as Silk Oak,
Koa, various species af E calyptus, Golden and Pink Showers, Pride of
India, Poinciann, Alizzia, etc. The price of the seed varies from 10
to 50 cents per ounce. The seedlings may be had for 21⁄2 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.

C. S. JUDD,

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. EHRIORN,
Superintendent of Entomology.

The Wood Waste Exchange of the federal department of agriculture appears to be an exceedingly important economic factor. Perhaps the workshops here using the beautiful Hawaiian hardwoods might make something out of it, therefore a press notice of the institution is elsewhere printed.

In his report for July the Territorial veterinarian explains an error in his July report, which did some injustice to both Mokuleia ranch and Pond's dairy.

Dr. Nörgaard, in reference to hog cholera, repeats in his report for June the advice of former reports with regard to feeding and sanitation as the best preventives of disease in herds of swine.

Results of the initial campaign against bovine tuberculosis on Hawaii, "the big island," are highly encouraging.

It is to be hoped that the efforts of the Territorial veterinarian to procure a visit to the Territory by the chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, D. C., will be successful. Dr. Nörgaard's attendance at the national convention of veterinarians in Oakland this month, which has been arranged for, will do much to put Hawaii on the animal industry map of the Union as well as bring valuable returns to these islands.

Three pests were nabbed by Entomologist Ehrhorn in June, outside of various lots of contraband plants which he had either destroyed or returned. It would seem that there is no end to the ignorance, prevailing in foreign parts, of United States regulations forbidding the entrance of fruit and vegetable stuff in baggage and mails.

The new edition of Mr. Rock's book on Hawaiian forests will be awaited with keen interest here and abroad.

Results of fencing the Territorial forest reserves have been so obviously profitable that expenditures on that account must be regarded as among the soundest of investments.

That profit from forest culture is not, in these islands, a matter of legacy to future generations, but something to be enjoyed in the lifetime of the tree planter, is made evident in the article by the Superintendent of Forestry, Mr. Judd, in this number, giving the results from an ironwood grove on Kauai.

More than 10,000 plants distributed in May and June to the general public, with nearly 13,000 to plantation and other companies, by the Government nursery is "going some," but when on top of these numbers the nurseryman engages to deliver 50,000 seedlings between the middle of July and the end of August, to such corporations, a faint idea of what is doing in forestation in these islands may be gained.

Much work in June is reported by the Superintendent of Hydrography, whose division not only measures the water resources of the islands but aids in solving the water problems of plantations, municipalities and the national military establishment in the Territory.

All interested in the fruit industries of Hawaii-which must include everybody-will wish good luck to Mr. Fullaway in his search for a melon fly parasite in India.

GOOD IRONWOOD YIELD.

The following data concerning the yield of timber from a planted grove at Lihue, Kauai, may be of interest to those readers of the Forester who are engaged in tree planting:

Ironwood trees of the species known as Casuarina quadrivalvis were cut in April, 1915, on a plot of land a little over half an acre in area near the Lihue church, Lihue, Kauai. These had been planted in 1896 and up to the time of the final cut the plot had been thinned out several times. The cut from this plot of .6 acre was 226 trees which yielded 39 cords of firewood. At this rate the yield in wood for this species in this locality should be 65 cords per acre at the end of 19 years, which represents a growth of 3.42 cords per acre per annum. This is a better showing than available records of the yield in woodlots of blue gum, eucalyptus globulus, in these islands.

The wood of this ironwood is excellent for fuel and it is used extensively for this purpose in Lihue, where it now sells for $8 per cord, delivered. The tops and branches even down to one inch in diameter, as well as the main trunk, are sold and used.

C. S. JUDD, Superintendent of Forestry.