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THE JHAWAIIAN 



FORESTER I AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. IX. MARCH, 1912. No. 3. 



Another article of Professor McCaughey's series on Honolulu 

 palms appears in this number. 



Mr. Swezey's paper on insect parasitism, begun in this number, 

 is interesting as well as instructive. 



There is not a more interestnig and important problem, if the 

 subjugation of animal and plant distempers be excepted, pending 

 in the Board of Agriculture and Forestry than that of the recla- 

 mation of Kahoolawe. Not only for the intrinsic profit of mak- 

 ing the little island industrially productive, adding so much more 

 to the limited area of arable land in the Territory, is the matter 

 attractive, but the lessons of economical reclaiming and conserv- 

 ing that, with comparative cheapness and positive absence of ap- 

 preciable risk of anything, may be learned from the experimenta- 

 tion necessary to the task will undoubtedly be of inestimable value 

 in dealing with reclamation projects elsewhere in these islands. 

 Mr. Hosmer's proposals in the matter in this number will be 

 read with general interest. 



Mr. Adams' plea for a secondary agricultural school is re- 

 printed in this number from a daily newspaper. It is worthy 

 both of study and preservation. The projected school of this char- 

 acter at Kahuku ought to be only the first of several in this Ter- 

 ritory — one at least for- each island being the minimum to work 

 toward. There are two or three public and private schools in 

 Hawaii which have for years been developing on the lines pro- 

 posed, which bid far to attain to the standard contemplated for 

 r^ the Kahuku farm school. From all reports, in official periodicals 

 CD and the news press, the Philippine Islands are forging ahead in 

 ' agricultural instruction combined with other education, not only 



^ faster than Hawaii but bidding fair to establish models worth 



noticing by many states in the mother country. Teachers can not 

 fail to be greatly helped in bending the pliant twig of youthful 

 aspirations for life and livelihood on and from the soil by fully 

 absorbing the sentiments and suggestions of Mr. Adams. 



