THE JHAWAIIAN 



rORESTER I AGRICULTURIST 



Vol. XI. JANUARY, 1914. No. 1 



Locusts continue to give the agricultural authorities of the 

 Philippines great concern. Lately the territorial legislature pass- 

 ed an appropriation of $100,000 to fight the pest, voting down 

 various amendments for smaller amounts. 



Bottles and broken glass thrown carelessly away have been 

 proved one cause of forest fires on the mainland, as they concen- 

 trate the rays of the sun upon dry stuff. An inspector in the 

 northwest, searching for the cause of an incipient blaze among 

 dead leaves, which he stamped out, discovered the bottom of a 

 beer bottle lying on the leaves upon which the sun was playing 

 its ravs. 



Some weighty pineapples grown on Ceylon estates, the Kew 

 variety being mentioned, are told about in the Tropical xAgricul- 

 turist. Four, from as many different growers, have their weights 

 given as 16, 20, 21 and 24i4 pounds. 



An article advocating increased growing of corn in Hawaii, 

 with regard to the local market for both breadstuff's and animal 

 feed, is reprinted in this number. Its author, Doctor Wilcox, 

 has also lately produced articles advocating the standardizing of 

 Hawaiian coflee for the outside market, arguing the profitableness 

 of the coconut industry for Hawaii and presenting the adaptabil- 

 ity of algaroba beans for human food material — both toothsome 

 edibles and a substitute for coffee devoid of caffein being capable 

 of derivation from algaroba bean meal. A local man. it is stated, 

 has patented a process for producing the coffee substitute, an 

 article that should be welcome to the dietary of those with whom 

 the real thing disagrees. 



A forest note from the national agricultural department says 

 "it has been suggested that guayacan, a very hard wood of Cen- 

 tral America, may furnish shuttle blocks to supplement dogwood 

 and persimmon, now much used and in danger of exhaustion." 

 Perhaps manufacturers of the article mentioned would find just 

 what they require in some of the hard woods of Hawaii. For 

 instance, some of the waste wood of the Hawaiian Hardwood 

 Company's mill might be found to suit the purpose. 



