THE HAWAIIAN FORESTER 

 AND AGRICULTURIST 



Vol XIV. Honolulu, July, 1917. No. 7 



Professor AlacCaughey contributes a short article on the CaH- 

 fcrnia laurel to this number. 



Departmental reports of Forestry, Plant Inspection and Ento- 

 mology are brought up to May in this issue. 



In keeping with the live topic of food conservation is an article 

 in this number on goat's milk for infant feeding. While, as 

 respects some parts of the group, the old saying about the "best 

 Indian" seems to have been applied to goats, yet, given the right 

 kind, a live goat may be much better than a dead one wherever 

 conditions are favorable for keeping that stock. 



Preparedness against pests is proving effectual in Hawaii. 



HEAD OF FOREST SERVICE NOW IN FRANCE. 



Announcement of the arrival of Henry S. Graves, Chief of 

 the U. S. Forest Service, in Paris, has led the Department of 

 Agriculture to explain that Mr. Graves has gone abroad to make 

 arrang-ements for the forest w^ork which the American army en- 

 gineers w^ill undertake in France in connection with the military 

 operations of the allied forces. 



Because of the opportunity for service by this country in 

 woods w^ork incidental to the war which the request of the 

 British government for the sending of a forest regiment was 

 believed to present, Mr. Graves has been granted leave of ab- 

 sence from his position as head of the Forest Service and has 

 received a commission as major in the Reserve Engineer Corps. 

 He has not been assigned to any command, but is acting under 

 instructions, it is stated, to proceed to France in order to learn 

 on the ground in advance just what conditions will need to 

 be met, what equipment will be called for, and how extensively 

 the service of x\merican lumbermen can be utilized to advantage. 



One of the staff officers of the regiment, Captain Barrington 

 Moore, is' with Mr. Graves for the purpose of arranging for its 

 prompt assumption of the specific duties to which it will be as- 

 signed when it is landed in France. While organized on mili- 



