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There is nothiiii^" much more in demand today than new mate- 

 rial for paper-making-. No doubt there are many plants of 

 tropical and sub-tropical feasibility of cultivation which might 

 be utilized for the purpose in question. Several have been men- 

 tioned in articles api)earing from time to time in the Forester. 

 One is noticed in this number. An article descriptive of another 

 is reserved for a later opportunity. With the fuel problem once 

 an obstacle to manufacturing in Hawaii to some extent solved by 

 cheap electric power and mineral oil, the conversion of raw mate- 

 rial into pulp or even finished paper here should not be regarded 

 as a wild proposition. What is most immediately important in 

 the matter is finding suitable raw materials. Hawaii itself is a 

 consumer of considerable quantities of many kinds of pai)er, 

 while tlie waste of dififerent of its agricultiuTd products is im- 

 doubtediy suitable for paper-making stock. 



From the goodly amount of notice Hawaii received in the 

 metropolitan press on the occasion of its slender exhibit at the 

 international rubber exhibition in New York last year, it may 

 fairly be premised that with a worthy exhibit of all of its com- 

 mercial products in London next summer, on the occasion of 

 both the rubber and the tropical products exhibitions to be held 

 there conjointly, everything that these islands are now producing 

 would be introduced to the markets of the world very etTectively. 

 No amount or literary advertising will rival such an opportunity 

 of showing the wares themselves to people ready to buy on evi- 

 dence of merit. In addition to the presentation of our products 

 to the attention of Furopean purchasers, the exhibitions in ques- 

 tion will afford one of the grandest opportunities possible for 

 setting forth the attractions of Hawaii to tourists and investors 

 both. All that is needecl is taking proper advantage of the big 

 chance. 



An article in this nuinlxT, reproducing tlie suggestions of the 

 University (if Xel)raska ex])eriment station on the care of milk 

 and cream in the home, should be as valual)le in Hawaii as in 

 tlie norlhern localitx for wliicli it was ])rei)are(I. 



Homesteaders in this Territory will find some edifying mate- 

 rial in an article from Australia rejjrinted elsewhere on the ad- 

 vantages of good cultivation. 



A request for the ['orester regnlarlx' has been ri'ceived from 

 a South .African institution, togftlut- with a list of names for 

 mailing sami)le copies to leading agriculturists in tliat country. 

 The ref|uest will be cheerfully complied with. 



