THE jHAWAIIAN 



f QRE8TER I AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. IX. OCTOBER, 1912. No. 10. 



An article on "Flowers of the Papaya" in the August number 

 of the Forester should have been credited to the Agricultural 

 News (West Indies), as it was a translation specially prepared 

 for that paper. 



Tropical Life (London) commends to all interested in the cane 

 sugar industry a book called "The World's Sugar Industry — Past 

 and Present," by H. C. Prinsen Geerlig. Ft contains 400 pages 

 including index, and is published by Norman Rodger, Altrin- 

 cham, Manchester, price 12s. net or 14s. post free. 



Dr. Norgaard's reports in this issue deserve wide publicity, 

 particularly the section devoted to human and bovine tubercu- 

 losis. There is no subject of more vital importance to the human 

 race at the present day. The passage of the milk ordinance by 

 the Honolulu supervisors, prohibiting the distribution of milk 

 from cows uncertified as free from taint of tuberculosis, marked 

 an era in the fight against the great white plague in Hawaii. It 

 is not to the credit of the other counties of the Territory, or the 

 legislature, that similar measures have not been provided to 

 cover the rest of the islands. Territorial action is necessary to 

 back up any county measure of this kind, by way of providing 

 for the expenses of administering the test to cattle. With re- 

 gard to Oahu, the expense was less than it would be on the other 

 islands, as the departmental experts were more available here 

 and travel a more simple problem, so that a moderate amount of 

 assistance from the municipal treasury enabled the division of 

 animal industry to take up the work of eradicating tuberculosis 

 from the dairy herds of this island — a work which, happily, has 

 been continued until the Territorial veterinarian is able to report 

 it practically completed. 



"Official Ayreshire Record No. 14" comes from C. M. Win- 

 slow, secretary of the Ayreshire Breeders' Association, Brandon. 

 Vermont. There are eleven cows in the two-year-old form and 

 the one standing highest is White Lilly of South Farm, John 

 Sherwin, owner, her record being 12,022 lbs. milk, 503.88 lbs. 

 fat, 588 lbs. butter and 4.197^ fat. The lowest of the eleven in 

 this form is Howie's Flora Macdonald, with 6320 lbs. milk, 271.55 



