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bundles, a perfect knot is tied and the well-rounded sheaf is 

 discharged to the carrier from where it is dropped to the 

 ground at the will of the operator. 



Under favorable conditions, the five-foot cut machine will 

 cover five to eight acres a day, which is equivalent to the 

 hand labor of twenty-five to forty men. 



While not adapted to all Hawaiian rice fields, our last trial 

 has demonstrated that on such lands as can be drained sufficiently 

 to permit of horses keeping a comfortable foothold, the mod- 

 ern self-binding harvester can be made a useful aid as a time 

 and labor saver. 



Very truly yours, 



F. G. KRAUSS, 

 In Charge of Hawaii Rice Investigation. 



BY AUTHOBITY. 



ARBOR DAY PROCLAMATION. 



In accordance with the custom inaugurated last year of setting apart 

 u day for the promotion of forest growth, I hereby designate Friday, 

 November 2, 1906, as Arbor Day for the Territory of Hawaii, recom- 

 mending that appropriate exercises be held in the public schools and that 

 a part of the day be devoted to the planting of trees and shrubs upon 

 the school grounds. 



(Seal) 



Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the Territory of Hawaii, 

 at the Capitol Building in Honolulu, this twelfth day of October, A. D. 

 1906. G. E. CAKTEK, 



Governor of Hawaii. 



