THE jHAWAIIAN 



rOR£6TER i AGRICULTURIST 



Vol IV. MAY, 1907 No. 5 



The Forester takes great pleasure in presenting this month 

 an able paper by Dr. N. A. Cobb upon the present status of the 

 Hawaiian pineapple industry with regard to threatened fungoid 

 and insect pests. The wide experience of the writer, not only 

 with regard to the special industry which his article touches, but 

 also in general plant pathology and crop technology, entitles his 

 conclusions to great attention and renders them authoritative, it 

 is to be sincerely hoped that the rapidly growing pineapple in- 

 dustry of Hawaii will long continue its prosperous course and 

 will successfully solve as they arise, those problems which must 

 be expected from time to time to threaten its well being. In 

 this, as in all tropical agricultural enterprises, success can only 

 be achieved by constant vigilance and by the prompt application 

 of scientific remedies. To this end we would urgently direct 

 all pineapple growers in the Territory to a careful consideration 

 of Dr. Cobb's paper. 



MEETING OE THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND 



EORESTRY. 



At the meeting of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, held 

 on April 3 last, the following Commissioners were present: 

 Messrs. W. M. Giffard, C. S. Holloway, secretary, A. W. Carter 

 and Gerrit P. Wilder. In the absence of Mr. Thurston, Mr. W. M. 

 Giffard presided. 



Messrs. R. S. Hosmer, Superintendent of Forestry ; Jared G. 

 Smith, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Experiment Sta- 

 tion ; Alexander Craw, Superintendent of Entomology ; Jacob 

 Kotinsky, Assistant Entomologist, and Dr. J. C. Fitzgerald, As- 

 sistant Veterinarian, were in attendance. 



At the close o^ the introductory business, Mr. Giffard, in ex- 

 pressing regret at the resignation of Mr. Thurston from the 

 presidency of the Board, suggested the desirability of electing a 

 successor. In the discussion which ensued, Messrs. Carter and 

 Wilder advised deferring action in this matter until the two re- 

 cently-appointed members of the Board, Messrs. Paul R. Isenberg 

 and L. G. Kellogg, who w^ere both absent from Honolulu, could 

 be present. This course was finally adopted. Mr. Carter, in 



