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 NEW APPOINTMENTS. 



At a meeting of the Board held on September 20, 1921, Mr. 

 Lawrence L. Peralto of Kaumana, Hawaii, w^as appointed Forest 

 Ranger for the Hilo Forest Reserve, effective on October 1, 

 1921. 



At the same meeting Mr. W. K. Shultze of Hana, jMaui, was 

 commissioned as Fire Warden for the District of Hana, to suc- 

 ceed Mr. John Chahners, resigned. 



NEW FEDERAL QUARANTINE. 



Copies of Notice of Quarantine No. 51 with regulations ap- 

 proved by the Secretary of Agriculture on July 22, 1921, and 

 promulgated by the Federal Horticultural Board of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture in the interests of the agricultural and 

 horticultural industries of the Territory of Hawaii have just been 

 received from Washington and go into effect on October 1, 1921. 

 The object of this quarantine is to prevent certain insect enemies 

 of the mainland, new to and not heretofore widely prevalent or 

 distributed within and throughout the Territory of Hawaii, from 

 gaining an entrance here, and under it the movement of sugar 

 cane, corn (other than shelled corn), cotton and alfalfa plants 

 or parts thereof, and the fruits of the avocado and papaya in the 

 natural or raw state from the United States to the Territory of 

 Hawaii by passengers and crews of coastwise ships or vessels, 

 either as baggage or otherwise, or as ships' stores is prohibited. 



Passengers coming to Hawaii from the mainland will be re- 

 quired to sign a baggage declaration on the official form of the 

 U. S. Department of .-Xg-riculture, as is required of passengers 

 from Hawaii going to San Francisco. 



The provisions of this new quarantine will be carried out by 

 the inspectors of the Division of Plant Inspection of the Board 

 of Agriculture and Forestry, wdio are also commissioned as in- 

 spectors of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



RECLAIMING GRASSLAND. 

 First Progress Report. 



By C. S. Jl'dd, Superintendent of Forestry. 



An experiment w^as initiated on March 17, 1921, in Nuuanu 

 Valley on the Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve, to determine 

 whether areas covered with .Hilo grass could be reclaimed by 

 shading out the grass through the establishment of a stand of 

 haole koa (Leucaena glaiica).'^ 



* See "The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist," March, 1921, pp. 

 57-60. 



