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seed has been made to the general public, so that many more 

 packages will probably be sent out within the next week or 

 two. 



CEARA RUBBER GROVE ON KAUAI. 



In this connection mention may be made of a grove of 104 

 living Ceara trees, about 6 years old, which Mr. Judd has 

 found in the planted forest of the Lihue Plantation on Kauai. 

 Provisional arrangements have been made with the Lihue 

 Plantation Company, looking toward experiments in systematic 

 tapping of these trees. The details of this matter will be re- 

 ported upon later. For further details in regard to this grove 

 reference should be made to the very comprehensive report 

 prepared by Mr. Judd, under the date of August 24th. 



FOREST FIRES. 



I have to report two brush fires in Nuuanu Valley, respec- 

 tively on July 24th and August i6th. The first fire was on 

 the slope below Pacific Heights ; the other on the ridge above 

 the property of the Country Club. For further details in re- 

 gard to these fires reports by Mr. Haughs and by myself should 

 be consulted. 



MEETINGS. 



The Library room in the Board building was used on August 

 2nd for the igth regular meeting of the Hawaiian Entomolog- 

 ical Society, on August I3tli by the Pawaa Improvement Club, 

 and on the 6th, 14th and 24th by the Hawaiian Poultry Asso- 

 ciation. At the meeting of the 6th, an address on the "Raising 

 of Fowls" was given by Mr. B. M. Stone of Fresno, California. 

 The meeting of the 14th vv^as the regular monthly meeting of 

 the Society, and that of August 24th was an executive com- 

 mittee meeting. In return for the privilege of using this room, 

 the Poultry Association is to subscribe to a number of Poultry 

 Journals which will be turned over to the Library of this 

 Board, where they may be consulted by any one interested. 



DISTRIBUTION OF YEAR-BOOKS. 



During the past few weeks the quota of the Year-book of the 

 Department of Agriculture for 1905 received from the Deleg^ate 



