THE JHAWAIIAN 



FORESTER I AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. X. MARCH, 1913. No. 3. 



Additional information will be found in the report of the 

 Division of Animal Industry for February regarding the dis- 

 tember at Pupukea, Oahu, to that furnished in the report 

 for January. It would appear to be settled that the disease was 

 produced by poisonous growths in the pasture. x-\n interesting- 

 article appears elsewhere from an exchange on the influence 

 of soil and climate on the edibility of certain plants, which 

 would appear to have some bearing on the Pupukea incident. 



Two chicken diseases that have appeared in the islands are 

 described in the report of the assistant veterinarian for Feb- 

 ruarv. 



An article on the Ceylon gooseberry in this number 

 mav have some interest for our homesteaders and suburban 

 dwellers. 



In his report for Februar\- the Territorial entomologist tells 

 of some bad pests intercepted that month. 



The ]\Iindanao Herald, an exchange from which the Forester 

 has frequently culled interesting matter, had its office destroyed 

 in the conflagration that wiped out a large business section of 

 Zamboanga, ^Mindanao. P. I., on Sunday night. February 2. 

 It saved only a "baby" press, on which its issue of February 8 

 was printed. Fraternal sympathy is hereby extended to the 

 paper. 



The Hawaii Educational Review, "a monthly periodical devoted 

 to the dissemination of educational thought and progress, par- 

 ticularly as adapted to the Territory of Hawaii," is welcomed 

 among our exchanges. 



President W. M. Gififard of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Forestry, has received gratifying reports from Professor Sil- 

 vestri, the eminent entomologist engaged by the board last year 

 to seek a parasite for the ^^lediterranean fruit fly in Africa. 

 The professor has succeeded so far that, at last accounts, he 



