THE JHAWAIIAN 



rORESTER ^ AQRKULTURIST 



Vol. XII. SEPTEMBER, 1915. No. 9 



FOREST FIRE PREVENTION. 



From the federal forest service branch at Portland. Ore., comes 

 the following" condensed information and advice regarding the 

 mischief of forest fires and the means of preventing them : 



Forest fires are unnecessary, are nearly always the result of 

 carelessness, and may wipe out in an hour what nature has taken 

 years to create. 



They destroy existing forests. 



They destroy young growth, which means future forests. 



They destroy the beauty of the region. 



They destroy a great market for labor. 



They destroy prosperity. 



They destroy homes. 



They destroy lives. 



Forest fires can be prevented by : 



Never leaving a camp fire until it is out ; 



Never making a camp fire in leaves, rotten wood or against 

 a log; 



Never tossing away burning matches or tobacco ; 



Never burning brush, grass or slashings during a dry season. 



NOTES FROM CALIFORNIA. 



Some interesting items, in view of the activities of our Board 

 of Agriculture, appear in a late issue of the Clovis Tribune, of 

 Fresno county, Cal. We note that, in a test of dairy cows, "it 

 is reported that Laton herds are affected with tuberculosis to 

 the extent of 30 per cent." Another item gives, as one of sev- 

 eral reasons for a tremendous fall in the demand for milch cows, 

 "the inauguration of the new sanitary law requiring examination 

 as to health, etc." Then comes the following bad news about 

 hog cholera : 



"The much dreaded hog cholera is spreading at an alarming 

 rate in the county. Over 100 hogs died in one herd, last week, 

 and were burned, and the sale of pork has fallen off over half 

 in consequence, as the disease is communicable to man and is 

 almost always fatal. It is hard to detect it in a herd until the 

 disease has been firmlv intrenched and it is hard to eradicate." 



