THE HAWAIIAN FORESTER 

 AND AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. XVI. Honolulu, June, 1919. No. 6 



Chief Plant Inspector E. M. Ehrhorn returned on June 17 

 from his trip to California. 



The testing of dairy animals for bovine tuberculosis has been 

 resumed under Revised Act 204 of tlie Session Laws of 1919. 



The long-standing problem of ridding the Kula Forest Reserve 

 on Maui of wild cattle seems at last near solution. 



Tree planting on the forest reserves has been continued in fav- 

 orable places where weather conditions permit, as will be seen by 

 the report of the Superintendent of Forestry. 



The Governor on May 26 approved Rule XX, Division of 

 Plant Inspection, which rescinds the old Rule XVII and gives 

 greater protection against the dissemination of insect pests and 

 plant diseases in inter-island shipments. 



The lectures to be given on forestry at the Territorial Summer 

 School to be held at Kilauea, Hawaii, July 11 to August 22, will 

 aim to inform the teachers of the need for the practice of forestry 

 in Hawaii and how it must be accomplished. 



The summer camps at Kokee, Kauai, are becoming quite popu- 

 lar. Already 23 applicants have paid their first year's fee and 

 taken out ten-year permits for selected camp sites and many 

 others are planning to establish transient camps during the com- 

 mg summer. 



New Botanical Bulletins, 



The Division of Forestry has just issued two new btilletins 

 which have been prepared by Consulting Botanist J. F. Rock. 



Botanical Bulletin No. 5, 'The Arborescent Indigenous Le- 

 gumes of Hawaii," of 53 pages with 18 illustrations, treats of the 

 four native genera of trees belonging to the bean family which 

 include the two koas with the two varieties, the koaia, the uhiuhi. 



