cember 27, 1918. This bulletin, which contains 16 pages, and is 

 well illustrated, should be of material assistance to corn growers 

 throughout the Territory, and a copy will be mailed to anyone 

 who applies to this Board. 



This Board would appreciate prompt notice of the presence of 

 any new plants of a suspicious nature found by anyone. In spite 

 of all precautions, new plant pests are apt to gain entrance in the 

 Territory. An instance of this is the morning glory weed found 

 recently on Maui and reported on in this issue. Only by prompt 

 measures at the early stage of introduction can such chance in- 

 troductions be prevented from becoming established here. 



The welcome articles printed in this issue on dairy subjects by 

 Prof. Ralph J. Borden of the Kamehameha Schools will, it is 

 hoped, inspire other dairymen in the Territory to adopt more 

 modern methods which will result in improvement in the produc- 

 tion of milk. Similar articles on any agricultural subject which 

 will interest the farmers and ranchers in the Territory are so- 

 licited and will gladly be given space on the pages of The 

 Forester. 



Hawaii has again been slighted in a federal appropriation act 

 simply because the word "Territories" was not included in the 

 bill which provides for federal indemnities for tuberculous cattle. 

 The matter has been taken up with our Delegate to Congress who 

 has given us assurance that he will do all in his power when the 

 new appropriation bill is enacted to have Hawaii included to re- 

 ceive the benefits to which she is justly entitled on account of the 

 long continued efforts of this Board at eradicating bovine tuber- 

 culosis in the Territory. 



MORNING GLORY WEED. 



Attention was called in the Hamaiian Planters' Record of No- 

 vember, 1918, to the unwelcome appearance of a weed, new to 

 the Territory, which was discovered lately on Maui. This is the 

 Morning Glory or Bindweed {Convolvulus arvensis), originally 

 a resident of Europe and Eastern Asia which has become natur- 

 alized in old fields through the Atlantic States and California, 

 where it is a very troublesome weed. It was a bad pest in Engw 

 land even 100 years ago because it wandered over whole fields 

 and could not be eradicated except by repeated plowings in dry 

 weather, and then picking out the roots and burning them. The 

 roots run very deep into the ground and have caused the plant to 

 be called "devil's guts." 



If allowed to spread in these Islands where there is no annual 

 frost to check its growth, it would doubtless become a very great 

 pest and all residents are strongly urged, if it should ever come 

 to their attention, to dig it out part and parcel and burn every bit 



