THE JHAWAIIAN 



rORESTER I AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. IX. SEPTEMBER, 1912. No. 9. 



EDITORIALS. 



The Massachusetts Forestry Association issues the following 

 boosting card : 



Here is a little state which we think is mighty fair; 

 It has tried to save its forests as a man would save his hair; 

 But, alas, 'tis bald in places, nothing left but stumps or embers, 

 All because this 'soeiation doesn't have enough of members. WSJW 



Are you one/ tHi'f " 



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From the L. L. Poates Publishing Company, 22 North William 

 street, New York, has been received an Atlas of the World, 

 which is got up in very neat and clear style. It is represented to 

 have "193 pages of maps, alphabetical index of states and coun- 

 tries, besides the states with their counties and important cities 

 and towns with their populations, according to the 1910 United 

 States census, and the principal cities of the world." As Hono- 

 lidu is not found among the "important cities and towns," even, 

 let alone "the principal cities," in this book, it is a fair presump- 

 tion that the work is composed to some extent at least of stale 

 material dug out of older publications. There can be no excuse 

 for leaving Honolulu out. Hawaii as a whole, it may be added, 

 is presented in this Atlas only by a contemptible little map. 



Tropical Life (London) for August says: "One of our Ha- 

 waii friends writes us that experimental tappings of Ceara rub- 

 ber trees out there under official supervision yielded 14 ounces 

 per tree, five to six years old. This was obtained during the 

 course of a year, each tree being tapped sixty times, or an aver- 

 age of once in five working days." 



A circular of the Porto Rico Agricultural Station says that 

 bees are very fond of working the blossoms of the cocoanut 

 palm, and are ready to start work directly the blossom sheath 

 begins to open. So many bees work on a blossom that their 

 buzz resembles the noise made in swarming. Although the co- 

 coanut does not furnish as much honey per tree as the royal palm, 

 in the aggregate the amount obtainable must be much more, and 



