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Mount Hermon School, situated in the town of that name in 

 the beautiful Connecticut River valley, has developed a herd of 

 registered Holsteins within a comparatively short time, which is 

 claimed to be one of the most striking illustrations of systematic 

 breeding on record. An article sent to the Forester upon the 

 institution and its work, which is too long for our space, says 

 the school was founded by the late D. L. Moody, whose purpose 

 was to give boys unusual opportunities for study. The courses 

 of study fit the students for entrance into the large universities. 

 It is stated that the development of the herd was begun in 1904 

 with the purchase of a few registered cows and a proved sire. 

 From that small nucleus the herd has increased to 160 registered 

 animals that are now known far and near for their uniformity, 

 large production and heavy winning in the show ring. 



The recent heavy rains and consequent torrential floods which 

 have resulted in the washing out of gullies, destruction of bridges 

 and roads, and the causing of considerable erosive damage to 

 fields, with the consequent loss in fertility by washing the finest 

 soil down to the sea, should bring to the attention of every agri- 

 culturist in the Territory the importance of preventing or at least 

 lessening such damage in the future by giving greater protection 

 to the forest back up on the mountains where such destructive 

 floods start. The total excessive runoff can not be completely 

 controlled but it can be greatly modified by keeping a proper pro- 

 tective cover of trees and other vegetation at the headwaters of 

 streams and on all watersheds. The Division of Forestry is do- 

 ing what it can within its means to give the native forests under 

 its control this necessary protection and building up, and it be- 

 hooves the controller of every private forest to do likewise. A 

 well protected forest not only prevents excessive runoff but 

 protects the soil and stores the water. It is well known that 

 streams coming from an undisturbed, virgin forest are seldom 

 muddy and are subject to comparatively small variations in flow. 

 It is up to the land owner to decide not whether he wants all of 

 the precipitation to run off his land at one time or to store it up 

 in the forest for use in the dry season by giving this forest 

 proper protection. 



Division of Forestry 



Honolulu, April 9, 1918. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : I respectfully submit the following routine 

 report of the Division of Forestry for the month of Januarv, 

 1918: 



