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dew, and collect it ; but it crystallizes as fast as they store it 

 away. This occurred in 1917 and 1918, and considerable losses 

 were suffered by beekeepers. In 1919 the weather was so moist 

 during July that no melezitose was gathered by the bees at all. 

 But it probal^ly will be collected in future whenever the summer 

 is dry ; and the honey of central Pennsylvania may afford a per- 

 manent source of sugar previously so rare as to be only imper- 

 fectly known. The Bureau of Chemistry extracted considerable 

 quantities from the honey of 1917 and 1918, and is making ex- 

 tensive experiments with it. Rare as it has always been, there 

 is a definite demand for melezitose for use in scientific labora- 

 tories. It can be distinguished from other sugars by certain 

 peculiarities of crystallization observable . with the polarizing 

 microscope. 



Division of Forestry 



Houolulu, Hawaii, January 7, 1920. 



Board of Coinniissioiiers of Agriculture and Forestry, Honolulu, T. H. 



Gentlemen: — I respectfully submit the following routine rejiort of tlie 

 Division of Forestry for the month of December, 1919: 



TREE PLANTING. 



A few showers at Mikilua made conditions favorable for the planting out 

 of the following trees in the Lualualei Forest Reserve: 979 red gum, 832 

 ironwood, 388 logwood, and 131 bloodwood, a total of 2,330 trees. At 

 Makiki 335 koa trees were planted out. 



On December 3, 60 Kauri pine trees, free of soil and with the roots 

 packed in damp moss, were sent by mail to Hilo for planting on the 

 boundary of the Animal Quarantine Station. These plants were seven 

 days en route before being unpacked and were found to be in good con- 

 dition. 



During the month the clearing and jilowing of two and one-half acres 

 of land in the Waiahole Forest Reserve, preliminary to tree planting, was 

 completed. On this area Kauri pine, Norfolk Island pine and Japanese 

 cedar trees will soon be planted out under close spacing conditions in order 

 to determine their lumber producing abilities. 



According to custom, reply postcards were sent out at the end of the 

 month to all tree planters throughout the Territory in order to obtain 

 for the year 1919 a record of the different kinds of trees planted and the 

 purpose of plantings. 



For the celebration of Christmas, the Division of Forestry was able to 

 furnish quite a number of Japanese cedar trees from the plantation in 

 Makiki which was established two years ago for this special purpose. 



Permission was obtained on December 5 from the Superintendent of Pub- 

 lic Works to use non-citizen labor at the Haiku Nursery. Ranger Lindsay 

 had had a native born Chinese laborer working at the nursery for about 

 t)ne month, and after he had left for higher wages, he found it impossible 

 to secure any other labor than Japanese. After securing this permission, 

 Ranger Lindsay transferred to our payroll the Japanese laborer who has 

 been working for him for a great number of years and is competent to 

 take care of the trees at the new nurserv. 



