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this Territon-. Of the other shrubs, a supply of crepe myrtle, 

 ixora, cannas, and bamboos is kept on hand. 



These trees, shrubs and vines are available to all at cost and no 

 charge is made when they are planted for public purposes. 



The same boiler which generates steam for the soil sterilizer 

 runs the small steam engine which operates the sawmill. In this 

 mill it is possible to cut up logs for posts and other sizes of lumber 

 required in the nursery work. One of the products constructed 

 from silk oak lumber turned out on this sawmill is shown in the 

 accompanying illustration. 



The Fire Menace 



Owing to the protracted dry spell and lack of rain whicli has 

 made the native forests on Oahu very dry and inflammable, the 

 Chief Fire Warden of the Territory has deemed it necessary to 

 prohibit, as provided by law, the starting of fires to clear land ex- 

 cept by permit from the fire wardens. His official notice appears 

 on the By Authority pages in this issue. 



No permits to start fires will be issued where there is the least 

 danger that the fire will spread to adjacent inflammable material 

 and none of such fires are to be started when there is a high or 

 dangerous wind blowing. 



This prohibition applies to the whole island of Oahu. 



Quarantine Justified 



Under date of April 8, the ''Breeders' Gazette" publishes the 

 following over the initials W. N. L. : 



"Kedron, General Pershing's war horse, recently was released 

 from quarantine at Newport News, Va., by the Department of 

 Agriculture. It will be remembered that efforts were made to 

 have him released immediately after his arrival in order that 

 (len. Pershing might ride him in the triumphal parades in New 

 York and Washington. The department took the position, how- 

 ever, that the menace to the live stock interests of the country 

 was such that the release of even so distinguished an animal as 

 Kedron could not be justified. While Kedron came through as 

 sound as on the day of his departure for France, the wisdom of 

 the quarantine has been established by the fact that other officers' 

 mounts in quarantine at Newport News did develop dangerous 

 diseases and two of them had to be destroyed. One of these had 

 a contagious disease not known to exist in this country. The 

 other had tryponosomiasis, an infectious blood disease, akin to 



