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ordinary stock were also shown, together with illustrations 

 of the progress of the experimental investigations 



Samples of the different grades of coffee of the principal 

 coffee growing countries of the world afforded an excellent 

 opportunity for comparison of which many growers availed 

 themselves. 



One of the most important of our smaller industries is the 

 production of honey. The display of this product was exceed- 

 ingly attractive. A series of fifty samples of Hawaiian honey 

 of different colors, honey in the comb, and bees-wax in glass 

 jars and in cases for shipment were shown. An observatory 

 hive of the newly introduced Cyprio-Carniolan race was also 

 a feature. This new bee gives promise of equalling or even 

 excelling the qualities of the best Itatlian bees at present in 

 Hawaii. 



The cultivation of silk was represented by cocoons, by raw 

 and waste silk. That shown was growm at the Experiment 

 Station. It is of fine quality and demonstrates that the islands 

 can produce excellent silk which affords promising economic 

 results in the reeling. Samples of silk produced on Kauai by 

 Messrs. Ladd & Co. in 1S42 were also displayed. 



The shipments of fruit from the islands is increasing very 

 rapidly. This feature of Hawaiian export trade has received 

 special attention from the Experiment Station which recently 

 dispatched Mr. Higgins to the Coast in order to ascertain the 

 most advantageous methods of packing Hawaiian fruit. At 

 the exhibition various wooden crates which have been suc- 

 cessfully employed for this purpose were shown, ready packed 

 with fruit for shipment. The fruit neatly wrapped in paper 

 and protected with corrugated strawboard, looked very attrac- 

 tive. The crates exhibited were primarily intended for avo- 

 cado pears and papaias, various sizes of each of which were 

 shown. 



In cooperation with the Territorial Board of Health, the 

 Experiment Station presented the work which is now^ in prog- 

 ress for the control of mosquitoes. An aquarium of the im- 

 ported top-minnows, or mosquito-eating fish, attracted much 

 interest. Aquaria containing developing mosquito larvae 

 afforded excellent object lessons of the danger of allowing 

 standing water. From these the mosquito fish were fed and 

 the wonderful work of these voracious little creatures appre- 

 ciated. Figures explanatory of the life-cycle of the mosquito 

 were shown and also photographs, illustrations and posters 

 illustrating the work of control. 



Exhibits of the principal injurious insects of the Territory 

 were presented in conjunction with the various insectivide reme- 

 dies most effectual to check them. Series of fruit and plant 



