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This number contains No. 2 of Messrs. MacCaughey and 

 Emerson's paper on the kalo (taro) in Hawaii. 



Reports of the various divisions of the Board of AgricuUure 

 and Forestry for July have not been received in time for pubhca- 

 tion in this number. 



Cotton growing- has been abandoned by the Kunia Develop- 

 ment Company on this island, owing- to the ravages of the boll- 

 worm, and the company has given a lease for nine years and 

 nine months of fifty acres of its land to two Japanese, who, 

 it is understood, are raising pineapples on the holding. 



At last accounts the fungus blight on pineapples on the island 

 of Kauai had become very bad again, after it had appeared to 

 have been overcome, the young plants now being infected. Thus 

 far the blight has not appeared on any other island, and Kauai 

 is being quarantined against it. 



CONTACT BETWEEN PLANTER AND SPECLiLIST. 



(Agricultural News, West Indies.) 



Nobody at the present day can fail to appreciate the enormous 

 gulf that divides the practical man or capitalist from the special- 

 ist in science. The separation of the two positions is very patent 

 in modern agriculture, and can be vividly realized by contrasting 

 the mental outlook of, say, the manager of a large sugar estate, 

 and that of the entomologist whose faculties are concentrated on 

 the wing markings of half a dozen species of insects. It is 

 obvious that a proper relationship, or rather a proper communi- 

 cation or contact between the two is of the very greatest imjxjr- 

 tance, and it is the object of this article to delineate the position 

 of the specialist, and to point out the methods that are, or should 

 be adopted, in order that his activities may be utilized to the best 

 advantage. 



In most of the progressive agricultural communities in the 

 tropics will be found to exist departments (boards, or else en- 

 tirely non-official agricultural organizations, which employ the 

 services of scientific specialists — agricultural chemists, mycolog- 

 ists, entomologists and the like. Strictly speaking — the matter 

 will be enlarged upon later — these so-called specialists are not 

 pure specialists, for in many cases they possess a good general 

 knowledge of agriculture; yet in spite of this, their work is suf- 

 ficiently restricted to narrow lines of investigation to render their 

 mentalities quite different to those of practical, planters. In order 

 to contrast clearlv the two types, it will be convenient to adopt 

 a figurative illustration. The ability of the specialist may be con- 



