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or ceara trees. I had written him that 

 we were principally growing ceara on 

 tnese Islands. The experts had the im- 

 pression that it might have come from 

 the hevea tree. 



Mr. Anderson : We were told by 

 manufacturers in New York that most 

 of the ceara rubber they get is not pro- 

 perly washed and dried that they had 

 imported ceara rubber from abroad and 

 had been uuable to use or dispose of it 

 and had sent it back. They said that 

 all they needed was working samples in 

 order to give us a definite price for our 

 rubber. 



Mr. R. S. Hosmer's Remarks. 

 Chairman Lufkin : My predecessor has 

 very wisely obtained the consent of Mr. 

 Hosmer to address the Association. 



Mr. Hosmer : I did not come here to 

 make any speech ; I only came as an 

 individual member to show my interest 

 in this Convention, and, indeed, I have 

 not anything technically of interest to 

 contribute. Unfortunately, the appro- 

 priations of our Board have not been 

 sufficient for us to branch out except 

 for our regular routine work, so I have 

 not gone into this investigation from a 

 technical standpoint. 



There are two things 1 would like to 

 say, however. The Board of Agricul- 

 ture and Forestry is always willing to 

 do all it can in helping on any of the so- 

 called " allied industries," and rubber 

 naturally appeals very strongly to us as 

 an industry in which we are especially 

 interested. At this time we can help, 

 possibly, by opening the columns of 

 our monthly magazine, the Hawaiian 

 Forester and Agriculturist, if you desire 

 to publish the reports of this meeting. 

 Even if you publish them again as a 

 separate report, it could well appear 

 as a special number of the Forester. I 

 think that the papers which have been 

 read here to-day ought to be made of 

 permanent record and given wide distri- 

 bution. They ought to go on record for 

 future reference. 



One other matter, and that is the 

 suggestion made by Mr, Anderson at 

 the end of this talk, that someone from 

 this Association should be present at the 

 Rubber Growers' Meeting in London 

 next spring. I don't know much about 

 that meeting, but I do know that there 

 is going to be a big meeting there, and I 

 kuow from my own personal experience 

 that it is a mighty good thing for the 

 man himself, for anyone occasionally to 

 go to such meetings. He gets a great 

 deal out of it, and the information 

 brought back is of value to the industry. 



I strongly recommend that one of the 

 technical rubber men be sent on behalf 

 of the Association, or in some other way 

 to represent the Association there ; to 

 be on hand to bring back as much infor- 

 mation as he can. 



If at any time or in any way the 

 Board of Agriculture and Forestry can 

 be of assistance to the members of this 

 Association, we are there to be called 

 upon. 



Remarks by Mr. E. M. Ehrhorn. 



Mr. Ehrhorn, Territorial Entomo- 

 logist : 1 don't know that I can tell you 

 very much about the pests that affect 

 the rubber. I have just read Mr. 

 Austin's paper, and there is just one 

 thing I can say, and that is that the 

 rubber growers can be congratulated 

 because they have very few pests attack- 

 ing the trees. Since last year I have 

 looked into the matter, and in fact have 

 kept in very close touch with the 

 rubber growers, and I can say that we 

 know of only two scale insects, that 

 those are insects that are found in 

 forests, generally speaking, but they are 

 kept in check by the parasites that are 

 already here. I forwarded to Mr. Austin 

 at Nahiku some of these parasites be- 

 cause he was complaining about the 

 black scale pest. The mealy bug which 

 attacks the rubber tree is one common 

 kind, but I do not think that you are in 

 danger from the pest or that pest, or 

 that it will injure the rubber tree. The 

 cut worms have, of course, attacked the 

 rubber tree, but that when they were 

 only very small and the trees were pro- 

 tected by the grass. I think that here- 

 after there will be very little trouble 

 with the cut worm. 



There is one thing that we should all 

 be prepared for, and that is the import- 

 ation of any rubber varieties. We 

 have here all the kinds that we want 

 now, and the only danger in the import- 

 ation of oioreis the bringing in of new 

 pests through importing trees. There 

 is very little danger from the seeds, yet 

 someone might find some new species of 

 pests, and there is where the danger 

 is, because in Ceylon there are several 

 root diseases which are very serious 

 pests. They have also the white ant 

 which attacks the green timber of the 

 rubber tree, and it is known that in 

 Ceylon this species attacks the timber 

 of the rubber tree. In shipments of 

 plants from Manila we find all kinds of 

 pests, and of course we are always very 

 careful to see that they are killed 

 before being landed. There is one pest 

 that Mr. Austin speaks of in his letter, 

 and he sent me specimens of it. They 



