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We do not need any, statistics or foreign expert advice upon 

 this subject. The forestry experiments which have been car- 

 ried on by the government on the ridges back of Honolulu ; 

 by the Lihue Plantation and George Wilcox on Kauai ; by 

 th,e Baldwin plantations ; the Haleakala Ranch and by Cap- 

 tain Makee at Ulupalakua on the island of Alaui, and by the 

 Pacific Sugar Company on Hawaii, have already demonstrated 

 what these trees will do. 



RESULTS ON HALEAKALA RANCH. 



As to what can be accomplished by continuous effort at 

 small expense, I speak only as to my own knowledge in con- 

 nection wath the Haleakala Ranch on Maui, where, within the 

 past seven years, at an expense of less than $500 a year, there 

 have been planted out and are now growing well about 60,000 

 trees, which are already beginning to yield timber for fencing 

 and all necessary ranching purposes. 



During the past summer on this ranch there were cut from 

 thirty-three second-growth rastrada eucalyptus trees 230 good 

 fence posts. 



There is no reason why equally good results cannot be 

 obtained almost anywhere on the islands. 



Private work on forests is within the immediate control of 

 individuals and corporations, but public work of this kind 

 requires legislative appropriation. 



REIFO'RESTING APPROPRIATIONS NEEDED. 



Up to the present time the Hawaiian Legislature has con- 

 tented itself with appropriations for forest purposes barely 

 sufficient to maintain a skeleton organization, without suf- 

 ficient funds to take up the active work of reforesting. 



To obtain appropriations for this purpose requires a public 

 enlightenment and support from that portion of the com- 

 munity which recognizes the necessity of the situation. 



There is no organization in the Territory which compares 

 with the Planters' Association in power to bring to bear upon 

 the legislature intelligent public opinion and influence. 



I submit that not only should the Association pass resolu- 

 tions to be presented to the legislature, in support of appro- 

 priations for reforesting, but that in their own interests, in- 

 dividual members should use their private influence in support 

 of such a policy. 



MEN AND METHODS ARE AVAILABLE. 



The methods of propagation of tree seeds and of the young 

 trees has been studied out and we are supplied with men who 

 know just how it is to be done. 



