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and grasses and forage crops; horticulture^xperiments with 

 bananas, citrus fruits, alligator pears, and mangoes, and growing of 

 grape cuttings; diseases of plants and animals — fusarium diseases of 

 potatoes, taro rot; diseases of poultry; entomology — study of injuri- 

 ous insects and means for their repression. 



INCOME. 



The income of the station during the past fiscal year was as fol- 

 lows : 



United States appropriation .$15,000.00 



Insular appropriation 7, 2.3(5. 00 



Farm products 1, 153. 70 



Total 2;}, 3S9. 70 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of this station received during the past fiscal 

 year were Bulletin 7, on the banana in Hawaii, and Bulletin 8, on 

 methods of milking. 



Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station, Honolulu. 

 C. F. EcKEBT, Director of Division of Agriculture and Chemistry. 



GENERAL OUTLOOK. 



The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Station has continued its former 

 lines of work in chemistry, entomolog}', soils, fertilizers, irrigation, 

 and field plats with reference to sugar production, and has added a 

 division of pathology and physiolog}'. This division is under the 

 directorship of X. A. Cobb, late pathologist for the department of 

 agriculture of New South Wales, who is assisted by L. Lewton- 

 Brain and E. M. Grosse. W. E. Chambers has been appointed illus- 

 trator of experiment station publications. 



The division of agriculture and chemistry has been very successful 

 during the past year in propagating new varieties of cane from seed, 

 the object of this work being to secure varieties rich in sugar and 

 resistant to diseases. The division of entomology has made a special 

 effort to check the ravages of the cane leaf hopper, which has become 

 a serious menace to the sugar industry of Hawaii, and is much en- 

 couraged by the successful introduction of insect enemies of the pest 

 from Australia. The division of pathology and physiology has 

 erected and equipped a laboratory building and is now in a position 

 to study the fungus and bacteriological diseases of sugar cane. 



LINES OF WORK. 



The lines of work of the Hawaiian Su<rar Planters' Station wore 

 as follows: Chemistry — sugar-house products, soils, fertilizers, and 

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