June, 1909.] 



Timbers. 



The company is also taking steps to 

 produce telephone pins and brackets 

 from other portions of the waste lumber, 

 there being a large demand for this on 

 the mainland. 



Tibs for Island Use. 



Incidental to the manufacture of ties 

 for the Santa Fe contract, the company 

 is also producing from the smaller tim- 

 ber ties for local use at prices which 

 compete with redwood ties, while being 

 much better and more lasting in quality 

 than the redwood ties. 



Ties have been furnished by the com- 

 pany to the Hilo Railroad, the West 

 Hawaii Railroad, the Koolau Railroad, 

 the Oahu Railroad and to the Ewa. 

 Waialua, Makee Sugar Company, Maka- 

 weli, Lihueand Koloa Sugar plantations. 



Ties are also being furnished to 

 Messrs. Lewers & Cooke, who intend to 

 keep them in stock. 



Cultivated Fs, Uncultivated 

 Forests, 



The fact that ties can be manufactured 

 and exported from here to the Coast, 

 and manufactured and sold locally to 

 successfully compete with the heretofore 

 cheap lumber of the Pacific Coast again 

 brings to the front the subject which 

 has been so frequently urged upon the 

 sugar plantations, that one of the 

 greatest economies which they can prac- 

 tise is to plant trees for railroad ties, 

 fence posts and firewood. 



There are but few plantations left so 

 located that natural forest supply can 

 be relied upon for these purposes. Even 

 where natural forest is still available, 

 therefore, the supply is so limited that 

 a very few years will end the supply. 



More and more of the sugar plantation 

 managers are recognizing this fact, and 

 the last year has seen a constantly in- 

 creasing number who are taking advan- 

 tage of the offer of the Forestry Depart- 

 ment of the local government to furnish 

 foresting plans and recommendations, 

 and send an expert on to the ground to 

 lay out and advise concerning the loca- 

 tion and character of nurseries, kinds of 

 trees to be planted and location of plant- 

 ing grounds. 



In this connection the writer was, 

 many years ago, greatly impressed with 

 the results obtained on the Lihue Planta- 

 tion by ploughing up land and cultivat- 

 ing a planted forest area as compared 

 with the simple holing and planting 

 of trees and leaving them to their fate. 



The rapidity of growth and the thrift 

 of the cultivated trees as compared to 

 the others was most striking. 



A couple of years ago the writer sug- 

 gested to Mr. Louis von Tempsky, mana- 

 ger of the Haleakala Ranch, to try the 

 experiment there. Mr. von Tempsky, 

 who is an enthusiastic tree plantei, 

 followed the suggestion, and has achiev- 

 ed remarkable results which are best 

 set forth in his own language. The 

 following is his report of the results : — 



Report op L. von Tempsky on Culti- 

 vated vs. Uncultivated Land for 



Tree Planting. 

 ''It was suggested to me that I try 

 an experiment in tree planting on the 

 above lines, to find out the difference in 

 the cost and results of the two methods. 



In September, 1907, I measured off a 

 rectangular piece of land containing 

 exactly four acres. One acre I furrowed 

 out, and "kipikused" holes six feet each 

 way. The other three acres I ploughed 

 the harrowed twice, and as the manienie 

 sod was very heavy, I had to hand 

 work the whole piece, going over it 

 with " kipikuas" and packing out what 

 wouldn't burn ; as the weather was 

 quite wet I could not get a fire on the 

 grass prior to ploughing ; this of course 

 made the preparation of the three acres 

 very expensive. I selected this spot 

 especially, as I thought it would be a 

 good place to determine the maximum 

 cost of preparing land foi planting trees 

 in this style, 



The seedling trees I selected were, 

 Eucalyptus Amygdaline, E. Botryoides, 

 E. Corymbosa, E. Corynocalyx, E. Leu- 

 coxylon, E. Paniculata, and E. Rudis, 

 which were recommended to me by the 

 Australian Forestry Service as being 

 considered by them to be among the best 

 of their trees for railroad ties and fence 

 posts. 



The cost of the two pieces is as fol- 

 lows : — 



One Acre Lot. 

 Furrowing .., ... 82-60 



Holing ... ... 3-60 



Planting ... ... 2*60 



Weeding to date (twice) ... 9*60 



§1810 



Three Acre Lot. 



Ploughing ... ... $16'09 



Harrowing ... ... 315 



Kipikua work and twice 



weeding ... ... 102-70 



Holing 17-44 



Planting ... ... 7'52 



$146-90 



Or $48-97 per acre. 



The holing of the three-acre piece 

 cost more than it should have done, as 

 owing to running out of seedling trees 



