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Speaking of the work of the former president of the Board, saic? 

 substantially as follows : ''I wish to record my appreciation of 

 Mr. Thurston's work in connection with the Board of /\griculture 

 both as a member and as its president. It was greatly through 

 his action that its organization was perfected, and the bill which 

 created it was drafted with his cooperation. Through his energy 

 and the quality of his work, the duties of the other members of 

 the Board have been greatly lightened, and it is only fitting that 

 at the close of his tenure of office suitable recognition of this should 

 be had. I therefore move that the secretary be instructed to 

 write to Mr. Thurston a letter of appreciation of his services/' 

 The motion was unanimously carried. 



VARIOUS REPORTS. 



Mr. Hosmer reported the resignation of Byron O. Clark as fire 

 warden at Wahiawa, on account of his change of residence and 

 recommended A. M. Nowell as his successor. The recommenda- 

 tion was adopted'. 



The resignation of Thomas S. Kay as fire warden of North 

 Kohala was also reported. Mr. Kay recommended George C. 

 AVatt, manager of Kohala Sugar Co., as his successor. Mr. Hos- 

 mer endorsed the nomination and the meeting appointed Mr. 

 Watt. 



Mr. Hosmer submitted a report from. Charles L. Judd, of the 

 Yale forestry school, on his work at Lihue last summer, and also a 

 thesis by the same author. The report was very creditable, Mr. 

 Hosmer said, and he proposed to prepare a bulletin of som.e of its 

 contents. 



Mr. Holloway now read a letter from George C. Munro re- 

 garding his investigations of forage plants on the Island of Mo- 

 lokai. Mr. Munro offered tO' furnish a special article on the sub- 

 ject for the Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist, or for a de- 

 partmental bulletin. His recent visit to Xew Zealand, his native 

 country, was mentioned as having increased his knowledge upon 

 forage plants. 



Mr. Smith, in the course of a general discussion on the offer, 

 said he had seen the article and from a cursory perusal thought it 

 a useful paper. 



It was voted to refer i\Ir. Munro to the editor of the Agricul- 

 turist. 



Dr. Fitzgerald orally reported the slaiighter of ten horses, pre- 

 viously branded for glanders, at the ^Nloiliili rice plantation ; and 

 also another outbreak of glanders at another place in the same lo- 

 cality. Dr. Norgaard, the head veterinarian, had gone to Maui at 

 the request of Alexander & Baldwin. Dr. Fitzgerald also told 

 of the v^^ork of the division relative to mang^' dogs. 



Mr. Smith spoke of the increase in the Federal appropriation 

 for State and Territorial agricultural colleges to $30,000 a year, 



