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monthly in the Board Room of the Bureau of Agriculture and 

 Forestry. Correspondence should be addressed to the Secre- 

 tary-Treasurer, Jacob Kotinsky, Bureau of Forestry, King Street, 

 Honolulu, from whom copies of the Proceedings may be pur- 

 chased. At present the Society has no separate library and 

 does not exchange its publications. 



The following is the list of officers of the Society for 1906: 



President R. C. L. Perkins 



Vice-President G. W. Kirkaldy 



Secretary-TreG'Surer Jacob Kotinsky 



Members of Executive Couunittee 



Otto H. Sweezey, D. L. Van Dine 



Editors of the Proceedings 



G. W. Kirkaldy and Otto H. Sweezey 



SUPPORT FOR FIELD TOMATOES. 



The staking of field tomatoes is now generally practiced by 

 large growers of this popular vegetable and is claimed to well re- 

 pay the expense on account of the increased earliness of the crop 

 and its improved qualities. The method of staking partakes of 

 the nature of a trellis, the end posts of which should be about five 

 or six feet long. Provided the ground is not too uneven the 

 trellis may be made of almost any length. At intervals of about 

 twenty feet, strong stakes should be placed between the end post, 

 and along the top of these, beginning from the end, a heavy wire 

 should be fastened, and another parallel with it at about ten 

 inches from the ground. It is essential to have the wires abso- 

 lutely taunt and to effect this a wire-stretcher should be used and 

 the posts anchored by guy wires. A good, stout twine should 

 then be strung transversely between the two lines of wire by 

 means of a hitch in such a way as to prevent slipping. Upon 

 these the vines are trained. If kept well trimmed from the be- 

 ginning, the plants will soon attain a fine growth and bear abund- 

 antly. 



