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of the Bulletin we note that it is the intention of those in charge 
of this experimental station to issue a more popular publication 
setting forth the practical bearing of these experiments, and we 
therefore await this publication with much interest, as it is felt 
that the distribution of such a Bulletin amongst planters would be 
greatly to their advantage." No doubt the exhaustive article on 
''Rice and Cotton Investigations in China and Japan" by Mr. 
F. G. Krauss, which was published serially in last volume of 
The Forester and Agriculturist, will also have attracted great 
interest far from Hawaii. 
DRIED BANANAS IN GERMANY. 
Dried bananas and what are known here as dried banana chips 
have been offered for sale in Germany with increasing commer- 
cial success for more than two years. 
It is impossible to obtain reliable statistics, as the import figures 
are included with those relating to fresh bananas, both the dried 
and the fresh fruit being free of duty. Importers consulted state 
that they have been able to sell without difficulty all the bananas 
shipped to them, and that the difficulty has been rather to obtain 
the goods than to find a market. 
The consumers of dried bananas and banana chips were origi- 
nally vegetarians, who discovered attractive ways of serving them, 
but there is now a considerable demand for the dried fruit in all 
classes of society and one susceptible of being extended materially. 
Thus far the best dried bananas have been received from 
Jamaica, which also seems to be the chief country of exportation. 
The whole fruit is shipped in wooden cases weighing 25 kilos, 
or 56 English pounds, and chips are received in sacks. Importers 
are paying 25 marks ($5.95) per ICO English pounds for goods 
delivered in Hamburg, at which price a fairly remunerative busi- 
ness can be carried on. Any substantial increase in the wholesale 
price would react unfavorably upon the consuming market. 
Verily, the time may come when it will be a question of teach- 
ing grammar in agricultural schools instead of that of teaching 
agriculture in grammar schools as now. There in Lee, in en- 
lightened Massachusetts, a recent spelling match in the grammar 
school grades of the public schools yielded 14,000 errors in 83,000 
attempts to spell words given out. Spinach was missed eighty-six 
times and the pupils had an equally hard time with macaroni. 
The January Forester was distinguished as the conservation 
number. Its verbatim reports, nowhere else published, of the 
addresses at the conservation conference in Honolulu in Novem- 
ber constitute a valuable symposium upon what is actually being 
attempted in Hawaii for conserving natural resources and the 
public health. 
