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There are different items presaging material advances in the 

 prices of hay and other stock feed the coming winter, which 

 ought to strengthen the Hawaiian camjiaign for home-grown 

 products of this kind. 



Hawaii has been favored, the past month, with a brief visit 

 from Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the bureau of entomology, U. 

 S. department of agriculture. Washington. D. C. After looking 

 over the work of the Hawaii agricultural experiment station, he 

 spoke hopefully to a pressman regarding the results to be ex- 

 pected from the investigations, conducted there for the past two 

 }ears, into the life and habits of the fruit fly and the pink cotton- 

 boll worm. Dr. Howard expressed great satisfaction with the 

 manner in which the division of entomology, of the territorial 

 board, is being conducted. Besides the federal experiment sta- 

 tion, he visited that of the sugar planters. Shortly before leav- 

 ing for Washington he said he was filled with enthusiasm at the 

 beauties of the islands and their agricultural possibilities, and 

 predicted that Hawaii would attract by the tens of thousands 

 middle-aged people looking for an ideal winter resort. Agricul- 

 tural problems here were being handled in a very efficient way, 

 the noted entomologist remarked, adding, "The board of agri- 

 culture and forestry is doing the most intelligent work possible." 



"The .Loquat," a semi-tropical fruit "that has not shown itself 

 particular as to soil conditions" in California, is the subject of 

 Bulletin No. 250 of the University of California (Pierkeley ) pub- 

 lications. It appears to be a fairly exhaustive brochure and may 

 be commended to the attention of Hawaiian small farmers and 

 homesteaders. 



Mr. Ilamiestad's letter in this number, on the success attend- 

 ing eucalyjJtus tree growing en Maui, is interesting and in- 

 structive. 



The India Rubber World gives estimates to show that the 

 rubber production oi 1915 will be about the same as that of last 

 vear, which was in nnuid numbers 121.000 tons. Referring to 

 I>razil as "the unknown factor," the World says: "X'olwith- 

 standing an extraordinary fluctuating market, .Sontli America 

 during the ])ast eight years has been a wtinderfiill)- unifoiin pro- 

 ducer. Neither the high prices of the boom period nor the sub- 

 sequent slump seems to have had much inflmncf upon the- outturn 

 of P.razil " 



