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smaller wood makes excellent charcoal, while in Honolulu the 

 best quality of fuel wood sells for $14 per cord in enormous quan- 

 tities annually. 



The high feeding content of the beans makes them a very 

 valuable fodder. Stock are allowed to gather the fallen pods in 

 the dry season when the pastures are barren, and they are also 

 picked up and stored and fed to stock when the trees are not in 

 bearing. Good results have been secured from grinding the pods 

 into a meal which retains its original odor and flavor, without 

 change, for six or eight months and is no more subject to the 

 attacks of insects than is any other grain feed. The protein con- 

 tent of the pod compares favorably with oats, barley, wheat, corn, 

 and other grain foods. The carbohydrate content is largely in 

 the form of sugar rather than starch, and is, therefore, attractive 

 to animals, more easily digested, and far more palatable. As a 

 whole, the algaroba bean meal makes a well balanced ration with- 

 out modification. 



The honey industry in Hawaii is dependent almost entirely on 

 algaroba blossoms, and the clear honey product is most delicious. 

 The exports of honey and beeswax from the islands in 1915 were 

 worth $49,169. The value of waste land has increased mani- 

 fold on account of the algaroba, and what would Honolulu be 

 without the algaroba as a shade tree? The young plants, set 

 thickly together, have been successfully grown as hedges which 

 are quite protective on account of their thorns. 



A boon to stockmen, the standby of the apiarist, and the chief 

 support of the wood dealer, the algaroba has well earned its place 

 as the most valuable tree in Hawaii today. 



The Royal Palm, Oreodoxa regia, H. B. K. 



The lofty and noble stature of the royal palm won for this tree 

 the scientific name which means "royal mountain glory." Always 

 rigidly erect, with a stately head of comparatively few pinnate 

 fronds, sweet-scented minute flowers which burst out in huge 

 clusters at the green base of the leaf stalks, and a light-colored, 

 smooth, gracefully tapering column, this palm has become a dis- 

 tinctive feature of ornament in the yards of Honolulu and other 

 settlements in the islands. Differing from the algaroba, which 

 has ventured without discrimination into the wild places and has 

 become useful in many varied ways, the royal palm has timidly 

 remained close to civilization and so far has been of value in 

 Hawaii only as an ornament. 



The royal palm is found naturally in Southern Florida, Cuba, 

 Porto Rico, the West Indies, and Central America. In Porto 

 Rico, where the tree grows wild, it is one of the most conspicuous 

 objects in the landscape as it towers up on the hillsides with its 

 stately white trunk. There the green sheathing base of the leaf 

 is used for roofing and siding of huts and for a great variety of 



