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than twenty-five dollars nor more than five thousand dollars. Set- 

 ting such fires or causing or procuring them to be set or allowing 

 them to escape shall be prima facie })roof of wilfulness, malice or 

 negligence under this" Section; provided that nothing herein con- 

 tained shall apply to a person who, in good faith, sets a back fire 

 to check a fire already burning. 



C. S. J. 



DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 



REPORT or THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY, 

 APRIL, 1921. 



Honolulu, Hawaii, April 30, l!i21. 



Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, 



Honolulu, T. H. 

 Gentlemen : 



I respectfully submit the following report of the Division of Forestry for 

 the month of April, 1921 : 



TREE PLANTING. 



Tree planting was done with the two regular gangs of planters and 

 amounted to a total of 3,363 trees set out, as follows: 500 Australian 

 red cedar on the Tantalus Ridge in the Honolulu Watershed Forest 

 Reserve to replace eucalyptus windfalls, and 2,713 koa planted under the 

 palis on the Nanakuli side of Kolekole Pass and 150 red mahogany 

 trees along the boundarj^ fence in the Lualualei Forest Reserve. 



During an inspection trip in the Lualualei Forest Reserve on April 21 

 about 12 pounds of seed of the Moreton Bay fig, koa, big tree, African 

 tulip tree, ironwood, Japanese cedar, Indian waliwdli, sw^amp mahogany, 

 ear pod, red gum and silk oak trees were broadcasted from the Halona 

 ridge below Puu Kaua at an elevation of about 2,000 feet as an experi- 

 ment to determine whether any results may be expected from this 

 method of reforestation. On the previous day four boxes at the Mikilua 

 Nursery were sowm with Moreton Bay fig seed (Ficus macroyhylla) . ^ 



■On April 8, 410 seeds of the chaulmoogra oil tree {Tardktogenos 

 Kurzii) were received from the Upper Chindwnn in Burma. Of these 

 200 were planted at once in the nursery and 50 sent to each of the 

 other three main nurseries for propagation. On April 15, 195 seeds of 

 the same species were received from the same place and sowed at the 

 government nursery the same day. Seed received in previous shipments 

 is germinating very satisfactorily and over 2,000 seedlings will soon be 

 available for the chaulmoogra plantation which I propose to establish 

 in the Waiahole Forest Reserve, Oahu. 



FOREST FENCING. 



Repairs to existing fences on forest reserve boundaries have been 

 made during the month as follows: 



Ranger Lovell has repaired 310 feet of fence in the Kealia Reserve, 

 Kauai. 



In the Lualualei Reserve, Oahu, 450 feet of boundarv fence were 



