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THE HAWAIIAN FORESTER 

 AND AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. XV. Honolulu, June, 1918. No. 6 



THE ANNUAL REPORTS. 



The annual reports of the Superintendents, printed in the cur- 

 rent issue, set forth the activities of the five Divisions during 

 the calendar year 1917. The Division of Forestry has continued 

 its two main lines of work — forest protection and forest exten- 

 sion. Fence building and repairing, the extermination of wild 

 cattle from the native forest, the suppression of forest fires, the 

 examination and survey of government forest lands for inclusion 

 in new reserves, and protection against trespass by a force of six 

 forest rangers have constituted the main work of forest protec- 

 tion. Forest extension has been aided by the distribution from 

 government nurseries of over 350,000 tree seedlings for general 

 planting, and during the year a total of over 850,000 trees was 

 planted throughout the Territory. The Division has confined its 

 own planting almost exclusively to watershed areas and set out 

 approximately 25,000 trees, mainly koa, on the open lands of the 

 Honolulu Watershed forest reserve in Manoa and Makiki val- 

 leys. 



The Entomologist has done good work in the rearing of bene- 

 ficial insects and during the year distributed a total of 240,082 

 to combat crop pests throughout the Islands. The work of Plant 

 Inspection has been strengthened and facilitated by new Cjuarters 

 and equipment of modern construction near the waterfront. 

 These were first occupied during the last month of the year. 



Excellent work was done by the Territorial Veterinarian and 

 his assistants in controlling and suppressing the outbreak of 

 anthrax, new to the Territory, which occurred first in April on 

 Kauai, and later on Oahu and Maui. By the prompt disposal 

 of carcasses, isolation of exposed stock, and by vaccination, the 

 losses were confined to a minimum, the disease stamped out, and 

 the Island herds saved for the local beef supply. Progress was 

 made in the eradication of bovine tuberculosis and this was ma- 

 terially aided by the compensation act passed in the last regular 

 session of the legislature. Aside from these two diseases, the 

 live stock of the Territory has been singularly free from infec- 

 tious diseases during the year. 



The Marketing Division, transferred to this Board on July 1, 

 1917, has continued to serve its useful purpose of finding a mar- 

 ket for the produce of small farmers, old accounts have been 



