THE jHAWAMAN 



rORE8T£R I AGRICULTURI9T 



Vol IIJ. JANUARY, 1906 No. 1 



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In commencing a new volume, we take pleasure in thanking new 

 our contributors for the generous help which they have so readily 'f^-^ - 

 extended throughout the year. Among so many who have as- 

 sisted to make the Forester the valuable compendium of Ha- 

 waiian Agriculture it has become, we are especially indebted to 

 Mr. Jared Smith, Special Agent in Charge of the Hawaiian Ex- 

 periment Station ; to Mr. Ralph S. Hosmer, Superintendent of 

 Forestry for the Territory, whose advice and assistance has con- 

 tributed in one form or another to the production of nearly alt 

 our numbers ; Mr. F. G. Krauss, Agriculturist of tiie Kame- 

 hameha Schools ; Mr. D. L. Van Dine, Entomologist, United 

 States Experiment Station, for a timely series of papers on the 

 insects afifecting the Tobacco Industry, and to Mr. Jacob Kot- 

 insky. Assistant Entomologist of the Division of Entomology of 

 the Board of Agriculture and Forestry. Among those writers 

 who have contributed more than one article of importance, are 

 Judge Weaver, Mr. Gerrit P. Wilder and Mr. Alexander Craw. 



Single papers have been received from Messrs. R. H. Ander- 

 son, Nahiku Rubber Co. ; Wm. Alanson Bryan, Curator of 

 Ornithology at the Bishop Museum ; Byron O. Clark ; J. T. Craw- 

 ley ; Henry Davis; F. H. Edwards; John Emmeluth ; L. Lewton- 

 Brain, Assistant Director, Division of Pathology, H. S. P. A. 

 Experiment Station ; Donald Maclntyre, of Moanalua ; I?. M.. 

 Pond ; Alvin Scale, U. S. Fish Commission ; J. F. G. Stokes,. 

 Curator of Polynesian Ethnology, Bishop Museum ; and F. W. 

 Terry, Entomologist, H. S. P. A. Experiment Station. Mr. J. 

 E. Higgins, Secretary of the Farmers' Institute of Hav^^aii, al- 

 though not contributing directly, has rendered valuable assistance. 

 To all these gentlemen we extend our hearty thanks and apprecia- 

 tion. 



In consequence of the inclusion of official matter in the last 

 Forester, and of the desire to complete Volume II within the 

 year which has just closed, the final article by Mr. Krauss was 



