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to Congress has been distributed from this office to persons in 

 one way or another connected with the Board and to those 

 applying- under an offer in the newspapers. On the opening 

 of the schools in September each principal will be furnished 

 with one copy of the year-book. A few still remain for general 

 distribution. 



Very respectfully, 



RALPH S. HOSMER, 

 Superintendent of Forestry. 



October 3, 1906. 

 Board of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu. 



Gentlemen ; I have the honor to submit the regular report 

 of the Division of Forestry for the period from August 29th 

 to date. 



TRIP TO KAUAI. 



My own time during a considerable portion of this period 

 has been occupied with a trip to the Island of Kauai. Leaving 

 Honolulu on September 4th, I spent three days at Lihue, going 

 over with Mr. C. S. Judd, the figures which he had' been col- 

 lecting during the preceding month, and discussing with him 

 plans for the completion of the field work and the preparation 

 of the report resulting from his investigation. During this 

 time I also visited the two Ceara rubber groves in the planted 

 forest at Lihue and in the Kaluahonu Gulch at Koloa, and 

 made further arrangements with the Lihue and Koloa Planta- 

 tion Companies, looking toward the experiments in systematic 

 tapping of these trees, which are soon to be undertaken under 

 the auspices of this Board and the Hawaii Experiment Station. 



From September 8th to 20th I was engaged in making an 

 examination of the mauka ]:»ortion of the Kona and Waimea 

 Districts of Kauai, visiting in turn Mr. Walter D. McBryde, 

 Mr. Francis Gay and ^^lessrs. Augustus and Eric Knudsen. 

 Thanks to the courtesy of Messrs. Gay and the Knudsens I 

 was able to see much of the upper portion of Waim.ea. As a 

 result of this examination I shall, in the near future, submit a 



