6d:) 



by the government entomologists and those employed by' the 

 sugar planters, in exterminating or controlling such enemies of 

 vegetation as have gained an entrance to the group. This eternal 

 vigilance and this interminable warfare mean untold millions to 

 the wealth of Hawaii. Like remarks would fit the work of the 

 division of animal industry in combating and repelling the mala- 

 dies of live stock., several known ones among them being menaces 

 also to human life. If it were not for the unceasing vigilance 

 and exertion of those directing this division, it would be a mat- 

 ter of but a short time when there would not be a head of live 

 stock in the islands worth a week's purchase. 



COLLEGE OF HAWAII AS PROMOTION ASSET. 



In a former number of the Forester comment was made on 

 the advocacy by Tropical Life (London) of agricultural colleges 

 in the tropics, with the suggestion that the College of Hawaii, 

 eventually, might be in a position to bid for students from distant 

 parts for training in specialized tropical agriculture. Students 

 of this institution would have an advantage over similar colleges 

 elsewhere, from being in touch with the highly developed ex.peri- 

 ment station of the sugar planters here. H. Hamel Smith, editor 

 of Tropical Life, in a letter to the Westminster Gazette, urges the 

 need of agricultural colleges in the tropics for the benefit of 

 Englishmen desirous of entering a career of tropical agriculture. 

 In the following remarks, extracted from his letter, there is the 

 germ of a big idea in Hawaiian promotion for development with 

 regard to the College of Hawaii : 



"The very fact that one or more agricultural colleges have 

 been established in the tropics would attract the attention of an 

 energetic, ambitious, and extremely useful class of capitalist to 

 those centers as channels for investment and trade. These at 

 present hold aloof because they see no reliable means of training 

 themselves for such a life. With many fathers of families hav- 

 ing sons to place out in the world, or younger men with capital, 

 once they can see their way clear to obtain a good return on the 

 labor and money they are willing to expend on one or other of 

 the tropical agricultural industries, a very large number, with 

 only a few thousands to invest, would be willing to pay for their 

 training first at an agricultural college on this side on general 

 principles, and then at the college in the tropics to specialize." 



