such as the cheap hemlock wooden handle for buckets and the 

 aspen wood handle for the oysterman's shucking knife, which 

 when made of this wood does not slip when in contact with 

 oysters. 



A large amount of foreign woods such as cocobola, mahogany 

 and ebony is used in the tool trade. These woods are expensive 

 and when used for making knife handles may cost thirty or forty 

 cents a square foot. But such woods are used in very small 

 pieces on each knife as a thin splint on each side. A board foot 

 of such wood will therefore supply enough handles for a hundred 

 pocket knives. 



Ash is the leading wood for farm tool handles and hickory is 

 unsurpassed for the elastic handles required for axes and sledge 

 hammers. The accepted wood for a handsaw handle is apple- 

 wood and the yearly demand for such wood is over 150,000 feet. 

 It comes from the old apple orchards where trees are cut to make 

 way for improvements. 



C. S. J. 



Division of Forestry 



Honolulu, Hawaii, December 31, 1918. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and 

 Forestry^ Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit the following routine re- 

 port of the Division of Forestry for the month of December, 

 1918: 



FOREST FENCING. 



The repairs to the old fence on the part of the boundary of the 

 new Waiahole Forest Reserve, Oahu, adjacent to Kaalaea, were 

 completed on December 16, and a total distance of .81 mile of 

 boundary was made impassable to stock. 



The new fence around parts of Sec. C of the Olaa Forest Park 

 Reserve, between Glenwood and 23V2 Miles in Olaa, Hawaii, was 

 completed on December 28. The total length of this new fence 

 is 3.56 miles, and since concrete posts were used in its construc- 

 tion it should last a very long time and should serve well its pur- 

 pose of keeping the wandering dairy stock from doing any 

 further damage to the attractive tree fern and ohia forests within 

 its bounds. 



On December 16 a visit was made to that part of the Makua- 

 Keaau Forest Reserve, Oahu, which is adjacent to Lot 1 of the 

 Keaau Homesteads, and it was found that no fence on this boun- 

 dary kept the homesteaders' cattle from entering the forest re- 

 serve. The homesteader has agreed to cooperate in building the 

 half mile of fence that will be needed to protect the reserve at: 

 this point and the work will be undertaken in January. 



