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fully given to citizens in the beautifying of their home plots, his 

 enlistment of children's interest in forestry through Arbor Day 

 exercises, are items of his enthusiastic devotion to duty which will 

 add to community regret over his departure. Besides his super- 

 intendency of forestry he was chairman of the Territorial conser- 

 vation commission and a regent of the College of Hawaii. 



Socially, Mr. Hosmer will be greatly missed, as, besides his 

 venerable mother and himself having during his stay been mem- 

 bers of select circles, last January he brought a winsome bride 

 here from Massachusetts, making Honolulu society rejoice in the 

 feeling that now his home was established here. Cultivated and 

 courteous, Mr. Hosmer has been highly esteemed personally, 

 throughout his residence in Hawaii, by all with whom he has come 

 in contact. 



"Invest in the Tropics" is the title of a handsome paper-covered 

 book issued by the publishers of The Tropical Mail, a new period- 

 ical fathered by the Tropical Agriculture Development Agency, 

 Ltd., with the address, 17, Waterloo Place, London, S.W., Eng- 

 land. The book is finely illustrated and filled with snapjw articles 

 on many tropical products, while the periodical is packed with 

 similar matter but not illustrated. 



An enterprise of the Massachusetts L^orestry Association, which 

 might well be imitated here, is that of conducting town forestry 

 contests with prizes for tree-planting on streets. 



Reports of the various divisions of the P>oard of Agriculture 

 and_Forestry for last month will re])ay perusal. They show ef- 

 fective work all round. 



DIX'ISION Ol- AXIMAL INDUSTRY. 



Honolulu. May .^1. 1"14. 



Dr. V. A. Norgaard, Chief of Division of Animal Industry. 



Sir: — I have the honor to report the following work accom- 

 plished during the month of May, l'M4: 



ITHKRCrf.OSlS CONTRol.. 



The dairy stock of the following ranciu-s and dairii's wn r >nl)- 

 niittcd to the intradermal tnl)erculin test under the new and in)- 

 proved method, viz.. using the fold in the skin bc-iu';itli tin- margin 

 of the lower eyelid instead of the subcaudal fold: 



