51 



Average Price 



Year Acres Per Acre 



1912 22,820 $5.99 



1913 415,603 4.75 



1914 353,634 5.10 



1915 244,173 5.90 



1916 54,898 5.96 



1917 175,463 4.86 



1918 185,199 5.12 



1919 103,355 6.35 



1920 101,428 4.44 



1,856,573 $5.24 



TRAINING FOREST RANGERS AT HOME. 



The desirability of training forest rangers at home for ser- 

 vice with this Board in the administration and protection of 

 the forest reserves of the Territory of Hawaii is set forth in 

 the following letter which has been endorsed by President 

 Atkinson and transmitted to Dr. A. L. Dean, President of the 

 University of Hawaii. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, March 3, 1921. 



Hon. A. L. C Atkinson 



Regent, Ex OfBcio, of the University of Hawaii 



and President, Board of Agriculture and Forestry. 



Dear Mr. Atkinson : — In order to develop the work of the 

 Division of Forestry of this Board in a proper manner, and to 

 take adequate care of the government lands in the forest re- 

 serves, it will be necessary in the near future to employ forest 

 rangers of a better type than those who are at present holding 

 the position, i. e., men who have had some training In the 

 technical end of forest work. I would prefer to employ island 

 boys as forest rangers rather than to import technically trained 

 rangers from the mainland, because the island boy is ac- 

 quainted with the geography, nomenclature, language, and the 

 customs of the Territory, and in these respects is far ahead of 

 any malihini. Given an island boy of the proper temperament 

 and personality, all that is required is to train him in the essen- 

 tials of forestry in order to fit him for forest work in these 

 islands. 



I wish to propose, and would appreciate it very much if you 

 would kindly take up with the Regents of the University of 

 Hawaii, the plan of giving at the University sufficient courses 

 to train the island boy in the elements of forestry with the idea 

 of fitting him for the position of forest ranger in the Territory. 



Courses in surveying and botany, which the future forest 



