54 Forestry Quarterly. 



amendment to the forest law by giving to the Governor more ex- 

 tended power in the creation of forest reserves." 



On the part of private interests and corporations there is also 

 much that is worthy of record. Particularly to be noted is the 

 increasing interest in tree planting on waste lands ; the extension 

 of the rubber plantations on Maui ; the beginning of cocoanut in- 

 dustry; and especially the real establishment of the lumber in- 

 dustry in the leeward districts on Hawaii through the signing of 

 a contract between the Hawaiian Mahogany Lumber Company 

 and the Santa Fe Railway System whereby there will be sent to 

 the mainland during the next five years over 2,500,000 Ohia 

 Lehua railroad ties. 



J. H. W. 



Third Annual Report of the Commissioner of Forestry of 

 Rhode Island. Providence, R. I. ipop. 26 pp. 



The Third Annual Report of the Commissioner of Forestry 

 for Rhode Island indicates that progress is being made in educa- 

 tional lines. The state still lacks the first attempts at a fire war- 

 den system and the hope is expressed that needed legislation along 

 this and other lines may soon be secured. 



H. H. C. 



Report of the Chief Conservator of Forests, Cape of Good 

 Hope, 1907. 



This report shows that forestry in Cape Colony is not on a 

 very high level as yet. The area of state forests, after current 

 additions and exclusions, remains about the same as in 1906, com- 

 prising some 1,000,000 demarcated and 390,000 undemarcated 

 acres. The total revenue from all sources amounted to $175,000 

 (15 months) with an expenditure of about double that amount 

 the bulk of it on salaries and nurseries and plantations. Some 

 1750 acres were planted, about half of this timber plantations, and 

 the other half drift sand and tie plantations. Attempts to obtain 

 natural reproduction are weak, owing to lack of funds, and graz- 

 ing prevents regeneration on the unfenced reserves. 



Some work was done on valuable surveys, yield and increment 

 tables, and a working plan for the Pirie Forest of 7,000 acres was 

 completed. 



