THE JHAWAIIAN 



FORESTER I AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. IX. NOVEMBER, 1912. No. 11. 



Onr plant patholog-ists may be interested in an article in this 

 number, containing a synopsis of an address by Professor Salmon 

 to the British Mycologica! Society last year on problems of 

 economic importance regarding plant diseases. 



A bulletin on citrus scab has been received from the University 

 of Florida experiment station. It is by H. S. Fawcett, and in a 

 table of references quotes J. E. Higgins in a bulletin of the Hawaii 

 experiment station issued in 1905. The Florida bulletin gives 

 three modes of prevention — 1. destroying all sour orange or 

 other worthless growth : 2, spraying when necessary ; 3, cutting- 

 out scabbv grov/ths. 



Intelligence of vast importance to the future of the American 

 raw cotton industry is contained in an article in this number on 

 cotton-growing in Argentina. That country is there said to have 

 as large an area adapted to cotton-growing as the United States. 

 Although the Argentina industry is now handicapped for lack of 

 labor, an enormous Spanish immigration, together with the ex- 

 ploitation of a Barcelona syndicate, may tell a different story in 

 the not distant future. 



There will surely be no question about the extension of bovine 

 tuberculosis control work to the islands other than Oahu, either 

 through action by the incoming boards of supervisors for the dif- 

 ferent counties, or, if this should be impracticable for lack of 

 revenue, by the legislature in measures to provide either the 

 county boards or the board of agriculture with the requisite funds 

 for the campaign. It will not do to compel the municipality of 

 Honolulu to rest under the menace of infection from outside after 

 having its herds made clean through the combined measures of the 

 board of supervisors and the board of agriculture. 



That strange disease reported as existing among horses in 

 ^^'aipio Valley, mentioned by Dr. Norgaard in his monthly report 

 in this number, has proved to be a recrudescence of the glanders 

 epidemic of several years ago. This the Territorial veterinarian 

 CO ascertained on personal investigation on the ground, and on his 

 return President Giffard despatched him back with instructions to 



