With its annual report for I'^'lo the Massaehusetts Forestry 

 Association sent the Forester its Christmas greetings neatly 

 printed on a slip of paper grained to resemble heart of beech. 

 The report contains a list of 3382 members of the association, 

 inclndin^g life and contributing, besides 28 clubs holding nieni- 

 bership in it. 



In the latest Official Ayreshire Record, issued at Brandon, \'er- 

 mont, is presented the "world's champion Ayreshire cow." This 

 is "Auchenbrain Brown Kate 4th, 27,943 A. R. 547," owned by 

 Penshurst Farm, Narberth, Pa. "She gave during the year," says 

 the Record, "10,820 quarts of milk, at a cost of less than one 

 and three-fourths of a cent a quart, which was sold at five cents 

 a quart, making an income from her milk above cost of food 

 consumed of $541. She was selected and purchased in Scot- 

 land by ]\Ir. Percival Roberts, Jr. She is a very attractive look- 

 ing cow, weighing about fourteen hundred pounds." vSome cow, 

 truly. With milk at 12 cents a (|uart, "Kate" would be a gold 

 mine in Honolulu. People would wish even to sell "Mountain 

 King" stock to get an interest in her. 



IXDEX TO VOLUME X. 



With this number is presented the table of contents, with 

 analytic index, of X'olume X, covering the calendar 3'ear 1913, of 

 the Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist. It has l)een compiled on 

 the same plan as the indexes for several j^revious volumes. Both 

 contents and inde.x are arranged alphabetically, in the index the 

 official reports, important articles and some classified data being 

 sub-indexed by ali)habet. This system avoids the confusion that 

 would result from mingling the minutia of minor details with the 

 major subject matter of the volume. It may appear that exces- 

 sive detail is followed, but no compiler of an inde.x can possibly 

 tell just what datum may be desired 'for looking up by any in- 

 dividual, and it is im]5ortant that anyone can find exactly what 

 he seeks with the least modicum of research. In itself the index 

 reveals a wide range of information covered in the twelve num- 

 bers of this little magazine, bearing upon the agricultural indus- 

 tries of these islands, in addition to the exhaustive motithly re- 

 ]K>rts of the divisions of the agricultural department of this Ter- 

 ritory. 



Dne of the princi]ial by-jiroducts of the national forests of 

 Jajian is furnished bv mushrooms, which have yielded in one 

 year a revenue of a million dollars. 



Articles of clothing from wood fiber are being made in JMU'ope. 

 The material for a suit costs about fifty cents. Cloihing made 

 of this materird, however, can not be washed. 



