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The experiment will be run for at least three years and counts 

 of seedlings will be made every six months and reported from 

 time to time in this publication. 



The accompanying photographs show the area before and after 

 treatment and illustrate the character of the country in which the 

 experiment is located. 



DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 



REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY, 

 FEBRUARY, 1921. 



Honolulu, March 18, 1921. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu. 



Gentlemen: — I respectfully submit the following report of the Division 

 of Forestry for the month of February, 1921: 



TREE PLANTING. 



The planting during the month was confined almost entirely to the 

 native koa {Acacia hoa) of which 2,060 trees were set out at Mikilua in the 

 Lualualei Forest Reserve, 774 on the slopes of Tantalus in upper Makiki 

 Valley in the Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve, and 2 in the Kuliouou 

 Forest Reserve, Oahu, making a total of 2,836 koa trees. In connection with 

 other work at Kuliouou the following trees Avere also set out on that reserve 

 on February 17: 36 Cook pine (Araucaria Cool'ii), 2 kauri pine (Agathis 

 australis), 2 allspice {Fimenta officinalis), 2 Aralia (Brassaia actino- 

 phylla), 2 Queensland nut (Macadamia ternifolia), and 2 lime (Citrus 

 medica acida), making a grand total for the month of 2,882 trees planted 

 in forest reserves. 



The following trees were sent over to the Waiahole Reserve on February 

 21 for planting out on that reserve: 30 Cook pine, 25 allspice, 50 macadamia 

 nuts, 5 Benguet pine (Pinus insularis), 2 Teak {Teciona^grandis), and 40 

 limes. 



FENCING. 



Fire Warden Marion Cabral reports that approximately one mile of the 

 boundary fence of the Koolau Reserve back of the Nahiku homesteads on 

 Maui was repaired during the month and that the work is progressing nicely. 



On Waiomao Valley, Palolo, the Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve 

 boundary fence was renewed after storm damage by the construction of a 

 new water gate and 470 feet of new fence. 



The fence around the Honuaula Forest Reserve in North Kona, Hawaii, 

 has also been repaired by adjacent ranchers in cooperation with this Di- 

 vision, and the stock driven out. 



The fences bounding portions of the forest reserve areas along the Volcano 

 Road near Glenwood, Hawaii, are also being repaired by Ranger Mackenzie. 



Ranger Lovell reports progress in similar work on the boundaries of the 

 Kealia and Moloaa Reserves on Kauai. 



On February 18, Forest Ranger at Large V. L. Ellis was sent to Kula, 

 Maui, to complete the half-mile of fence bet«veen Kanahau and Kalepeamoa 

 at an elevation of 8,000 feet on the upper boundary of the Kula Forest 

 Reserve. He reports the weather very unpropitious for the work and labor 

 and work animals very difficult to obtain. 



