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Mr. Pope was born in Decatur, Illinois, in 1873. He is a 

 graduate of Kansas Agricultural College, where he specialized" 

 in dairy work and in horticulture. During his collegiate course 

 he was also an assistant at the United States Agricultural Station 

 at Manhattan. After holding important agricultural positions 

 in which he acquired valuable knowledge in the practical cultiva- 

 tion and marketing of fruit, he was appointed to the chair of 

 Horticulture at the National Farm School at Doylestown, near 

 Philadelphia, in 1900. In 1902 Mr. Pope accepted the appoint- 

 ment at the Honolulu Normal School, which he is now re- 

 linquishing. 



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COCOA. 



Cocoa importations to the United States now average over a 

 million dollars a month in value, against an average of a quarter 

 of that amount a decade ago. The practicability of growing cocoa 

 commercially in Hawaii has not been proved, but it is one of the 

 most promising agricultural experiments which require to be 

 demonstrated. The cultivation of cocoa is a very remunerative 

 asset to many countries similarly situated as Hawaii and is one 

 which in every way is worthy of establishing in the islands. 



STRIPPING OF CANE. 



The custom of stripping cane which has been extensively fol- 

 lowed for many years is one of questioned value. ;Mr. H. P. 

 Baldwin recently recommended that the Experiment Station of the 

 Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association conduct an exhaustive 

 series of experiments in order to exactly determine the effect of 

 stripping. He believes that stripping on all plantations w-as a 

 mistake and was attended by loss of sugar content. It is extra- 

 ordinary that such a subject as this should still be unsettled, but 

 many plantations still continue to spend large sums annually in 

 stripping cane, while the opponents of the method condemn it as 

 being not only expensive, but as depleting the cane of its sugar. 



STOCK PESTS. 



At a recent meeting of the Hawaiian Live Stock Breeders' 

 Association, Mr. D. L. Van Dine read a preliminary report upon 

 the insects affecting the cattle industry in the islands. The horn fly 

 was mentioned as one of the worst enemies of stock in the Terri- 



