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thoroughbred bulls by several breeders and dairymen. The other 

 inference from the report is not so gratifying", in that it shows 

 the importing of animals and fowls in large numbers which 

 mi^ht all be raised in the islands. 



An interesting article appears in this issue, by O. W. Barrett, 

 chief of the Philippine division of horticulture, on needed name 

 standards. Wrong names are among the most curious things in 

 philology, and it is harder to stifle the popular usage of one of 

 them than to kill a cat. It is more difficult to get "coconut," for 

 instance, into a newspaper proofreader's "cocoanut" than Dr. 

 Johnson said it was to drive a joke into a Scotchman's cranium. 



In its first \ear the Forester gave considerable advocacy of co- 

 operation on the part of small farmers in Hawaii, with special 

 reference to establishing standards of packing fruits, etc., and to 

 the advantageous marketing of products. In this issue will be 

 found an interesting article on cooperation in agriculture, with 

 special reference to India. It will be noticed that, while state 

 aid to such cooperation is held by the writer of the article to be 

 desirable to some extent, a completely self-reliant movement is 

 regarded as the ideal — government assistance being considered 

 by him as only a means to an end which "can never be a substitute 

 for poi)ular inspiration and direction." 



-Vt the recent meeting of the Hawaiian Sugar I'lanters' Asso- 

 ciation, contradiction was given to an imputation of undue secrecy 

 regarding the operations of the association's experiment station. 

 Refuting evidence was in part that of the issuance of bulletins 

 of results of experiments. Interesting corroboration of this is 

 found in four late numbers of the Agricultural News, organ of 

 the Imperial department of agriculture for the West Indies. 

 Bulletins of the station mentioned are quoted — one on the rela- 

 tion between the crushing of cane and the volume of the fibre, 

 another (the annual report) on the hibiscus in Hawaii with refer- 

 ence to the hibiscus exhibition here, a third on manganese in 

 Hawaiian soils, a fourth o'n the influence of molasses on nitrifi- 

 cation in cane soils and a fifth on the fuel value of megass. i-'vi- 

 dently the Hawaiian sugar ])lanters are doing their full share in 

 making Hawaii known abroad. 



It makes the imagination shudder to picture tlie comliiicMi that 

 might exist in Hawaii if there were no division of entomology, 

 with strict ins])ection of imported i)lants, to ward oil invasions 

 of pests. When the many ])ests intercepted each uionlh by this 

 division are considered, it may fairly well be conchuled that the 

 absence of protective measures would sim]ily mean that agricul- 

 ture anfl horticultul-e would be impossible in these islands. 

 There is also to l)e remembered the invaluable work done, both 



