THE HAWAIIAN FORESTER 

 AND AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. XIII. Honolulu, April, 1916. No. 4 



A total of 15,885 koa and kiikui trees have been planted dur- 

 ing the last two years on the hills back of the Makiki springs in 

 the Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve. These now cover an 

 area of Z2 acres of gulch and ridge land and have begun to make 

 a noticeable showing. 



The system employed on the Kukaiau Ranch, Hawaii, of rais- 

 ing eucalyptus seedlings in nursery beds in the ground, instead 

 of in boxes, and of planting them out direct from these seed beds, 

 has been successful and is a good example of economical planting 

 where conditions are favorable. 



The heavy rainfall during January raised considerably the 

 water levels in the artesian wells of Honolulu, and all reservoirs 

 on Oahu were filled to overflowing. The Superintendent of Hy- 

 drography estimates that the flood run-off on January 18 at an 

 elevation of 400 feet above sea level in the Honolulu basin ex- 

 ceeded 1,000,000,000 gallons per day and that at sea level this 

 was probably three times greater. 



During the epidemic of sore head in a coop of homing pigeons, 

 reported by the Territorial Veterinarian, only the younger 

 squabs were attacked. The older birds, apparently by instinct, 

 would have nothing to do with their young. 



The Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry 

 hopes to receive frank comments from all hog raisers on the 

 proposed new rule and regulation concerning the handling of 

 hog cholera and other diseases of swine before the same is pro- 

 mulg-ated. 



A consignment of vegetable seed from the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture has recently been received through the courtesy 

 of our Delegate in Congress by the Division of Forestry, and is 

 available for free distribution as long as it lasts. 



Notice has been received that ]\Ir. D. O. Lively, the recent 

 commissioner general for the live stock exhibit of the Panama- 

 Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, has opened offices in San 

 Francisco for the purpose of buying and selling livestock on com- 



