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ing: ''I thought I had some good stock, but I will have to 



hand it to . He beat me this year, but I have learned a 



few things and I am going to show better stock next year, and 



had better look to his laurels a few years from now." 



This friendly competitive atitude is the attitude that means better 

 stock for the whole territory, and hence greater prosperity for 

 everyone. 



To these men who have animals to sell and expect to continue 

 selling animals, the advertising gained at a Fair is a benefit quite 

 distinct and aside from the educational value to the exhibitor. 



J. Qigden Armour says : 'Tt costs no more to raise a 1200 lb. 

 steer than a 600 lb. scrub." Let us bring our animals to the Fair 

 and if there are any 1200 lb. steers there that are better than the 

 ones we bring let us find out why they are better. 



Division of Forestry 



Honolulu, Hawaii, April 30, 1919. 



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 April, 1919: 



TREE PLANTING. 



During the month 548 koa trees were planted in Makiki Valley on 

 the Honolulu Watershed and 1283 koa trees and 1430 yellow poinciana 

 trees at Mikilua in the Lualualei Forest Eeserve, Oahu, making a total 

 of 3261 trees. The koa trees planted at Mikilua, near Kolekole Pass, 

 in August and September, 1918, are doing well and some are already 

 thre« feet high. 



Our supply of koa trees is about exhausted because of the lack of 

 seed. There is some promise that the present crop may yield us a 

 quantity of seed and every effort will be made to secure a supply before 

 it is destroyed on the tree by the moth borer, Cri/ptophlehm illepida. 



FOREST NURSERSIES. 



Forest Nurseryman David Haughs spent from April 7 to 10 at 

 Haiku, Maui, conferring with Forest Ranger James Lindsay and mak- 

 ing arrangements with him for the early establishment at Haiku of a 

 nursery for raising forest, ornamental and shade trees for distribution 

 on Maui in order to comply with the new plant quarantine regulations 

 soon to go into effect. 



On April 3, Mr. W. D. McBryde, agent in charge of the sub-nursery 

 at Kalaheo, Kauai, resigned on account of the pressure of private busi- 

 ness. Mr. McBryde has performed valuable work for this Board gratis 

 in the past and it is with regret that he could not be persuaded^ to con- 

 tinue. Since the present demand for trees is mainly on the windward 

 side of the island, it is planned to establish a new nursery on some gov- 

 ernment land at Kapaa. 



FOREST PROTECTION. 



Owners of several head of half- wild cattle, which were still at 

 large in the Hauula Forest Reserve, Oahu, were notified to remove them 



