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nance will be fully enforced, be faithfully observed, it will be 

 necessary for all dairymen supplying" milk to the community to 

 procure certificates from competent veterinarians that their milk- 

 ofivino- cows are free from tuberculosis. 



Importation of pure-bred- live stock and high grades of poultry 

 continues to be recorded from month to month, materially ad- 

 vancing the solution of the problem of subsistence, for the popu- 

 lation of Hawaii, to the full capacity of profitable home produc- 

 tion. 



Efifective work was done again in March, bv the division of 

 entomology, both in the exclusion of pests arriving: at the terri- 

 torial gates and in the prosecution of noxious fly control. 



Among other applications for permits for economic utilization 

 of hitherto unconsidered forest products, on the government re- 

 serves, an important one seems to be that for the gathering of 

 kukui nuts as raw material. for the manufacture of kukui nut oil 

 on a commercial scale. According to what has appeared in the 

 press, at various times, this ought to become an important addi- 

 tion to the list of small local industries. 



With funds now available, the division of forestry is going to 

 add largely to the mileage of forest reserve fencing. In this 

 matter, as well as in that of vigilance against fires, Hawaii con- 

 tinues to maintain a creditable record in public forestry. 



With 7332 plants to the general public and 5550 to corpora- 

 tions distributed in Alarch, besides 1100 kukui trees planted above 

 the city, a degree of progress in covering the waste places of hill, 

 plain, valley and home plots with watershed protection, shade 

 and ornament is indicated by the forest nurseryman's report, 

 which is exceedingly pleasant to contemplate. Many can remem- 

 ber the time when writers of books on the Hawaiian Islands con- 

 trasted their brown and barren appearance from the ocean with 

 the emerald gorgeousness of groups in southern Polynesia. The 

 dismal aspect of Hawaii thus described is fast disappearing. 



If the algaroba tree seed going- from Hawaii to China work 

 the transformation of landscape in that country which the lone 

 tree, still preserving vitality at the Catholic mission here since it 

 was planted by Father Bachelot in the first half of last century, 

 did throughout these isles, "Far Cathay" will more than ever 

 be entitled to be called the celestial empire. 



There is nothing of especial moment in the report of the divi- 

 sion of hydrography for March, but enough to show that the 



