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DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 



REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF FORESTRY, OCTOBER, 1921. 



Honolulu, November 28, 1921. 

 Board of Commissioners of Ayri('uJtur<' and forestry, 

 Honolulu, T. H. 

 Gentlemen : 

 T respectfully submit the follo\vinj>' report of the Division of Foresti'v 

 for the .month of October, 1921: 



TREE PLANTING. 



Trees were |)lanted during October in forest reserves as follows: Lua- 

 lualei Forest Reserve, Oahu, 42 red mahogany, 5,778 red gum, 12 lemon gum, 

 .358 silk oak, 986 Australian flame tree (Brcwliy chiton acerifolium), ami 

 729 logwood ; total, 7,905 trees. A soaking rain made conditions suitable 

 for the resumption of tree planting in this region. In the Lihue-Koloa 

 Forest Reserve, Kauai,, on the government land of Kalaheo back of the 

 Papapaholahola Spring Reserve, 149 lemon gum, 470 silk oak, 39 Australian 

 red cedar and 238 swamp mahogany were planted ; total 891 trees. Grand 

 total for the month, 8,796 trees. 



In preparation for the establishment of the chaulmoogra oil pro- 

 ducing plantation, a first shipment of Hydnocarpus atithelminticus trees Avas 

 sent to Wiaiahole as well as a quantity of koa trees for interplanting and 

 lemon gum trees for a windbreak just inside the newly constructed boundary 

 fence. 



Mr. Angus McPhee has asked for 5,000 trees to be planted on Kahoo- 

 lawe this December and Ranger Lindsay has been directed to have these 

 ready and to supply them from the Haiku nursery. 



CONIFEROUS TREE PLANTATION. 



On October 9, while on Maui, I visited the experimental plantation of 

 temperate zone trees established in 1910 by my predecessor at approximately 

 7,000 feet on the slopes of Haleakala. Here a number of pine, cedar, fir 

 and spruce trees show good promise of success, the Coulter pine of Califor- 

 nia having attained a maximum height of 17 feet and a breast height diam- 

 eter of ~y2 inches in eleven years. The next in order showing the best 

 growth are eastern white pine, incense cedar and Scotch pine and almost 

 all are already bearing cones. 



PUPUKEA PLANTING. 



On October 27, I inspected the trees set out at Paumalu in the Pu- 

 pukea Forest Reserve, Oahu, under co-operative tree planting agreements 

 with prineapple raisers and found the Australian red cedar, mahogany and 

 koa trees planted in January, 1921, well cared for and already on the aver- 

 age four feet high. Plans are being made for continuing the planting in 

 this reserve during the coming rainy season. 



FOREST FENCING. 



During the month the construction of a total of 1.71 miles of new 

 fences on forest reserve boundaries was completed and a total of .98 mile 

 of fences was repaired, making a grand total of 2.69 miles of fences 

 receiving attention during the month. 



At Waiahole, Oahu, the extension of the fence on the forest reserve 



