THE JHAWAIIAN 



FORESTER i AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. X. JUNE, 1913. No. 6. 



EXCHANGE CHAXGES OWNERS. 



Among the most valued of our exchanges has always been the 

 Tropical Agriculturist, published at Colombo, Ceylon. Its issue 

 for March last contains an interesting announcement beginning 

 thus: "The Tropical Agriculturist, hitherto the property of 

 Messrs. A. M. & J. Ferguson, has been acquired by the Ceylon 

 Agricultural Society who are now the sole owners of the journal. 

 This is an event on which we think we may congratulate both the 

 society and Messrs. Ferguson ; the former on having become the 

 owner of the foremost unofficial journal of tropical agriculture in 

 the world, the latter on having successfully relaunched a great 

 journal upon a career which we hope will be a fitting sequel to 

 its past by achieving yet greater popularity." In further remarks 

 the journal says that, while the affairs of the society owning it 

 must come first, "yet its responsibilities extend far beyond the 

 limits of this island, embracing indeed the whole tropic world 

 and much of the sub-tropic." This view of itself by the Tropical 

 Agriculturist may be conscientiously endorsed by the Hawaiian 

 Forester and Agriculturist, which finds valuable resources of se- 

 lected matter for its pages in its Ceylon contemporary, as well 

 as noting with pleasure that the latter frequently utilizes the in- 

 formation put forth by experts connected with the territorial and 

 federal agricultural investigations constantly being made in the 

 Hawaiian Islands. 



THREE EOREST RESERJ^ES ON OAHU. 



On May 31, 1913, the Governor of Hawaii and members of the 

 Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry held a pub- 

 lic hearing to consider the setting apart of three forest reserves 

 in the Waianae District, Island of Oahu. The areas proposed 

 to be reserved consist of the slopes at the heads of the valleys 

 of Nanakuli, Keaau and Makua and of the upper part of the land 

 of Kuaokala. Altogether the area amounts to 6160 acres, of 

 which all but 340 acres is government land. 



The object in setting apart these reserves is to bring about the 

 reforestation of the upper portions of the valleys named, with 

 native Hawaiian vegetation — trees, shrubs and other under- 



