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There are certain lands that are now al)solutcly occupied by 
the keawe and it is a mighty good thing that they are. A num- 
ber of gentlemen have recently been trying to estimate the value 
of the keawe bean in the Territory. I have looked over the 
figures and they seemed so outrageously large that I simply took 
a chance in one instance of dividing theni by twenty-five, and 
still they were appalling. 
On a recent trip to ]\Iaui I had to ride horseback along the 
road from Kihei down to the Coconut grove, going towards 
Ulupalakua, a distance of about eight miles altogether. On both 
sides of the road was a perfect jungle of keawe trees; and the 
ground was covered with the ])ods. I should also say that the 
hogs and cattle were doing all they could to get rid of them, 
but still there are tons and tons going to waste ; and the cattle 
and hogs realized the fact that there was a luau for them, and 
only i)icked out the fattest looking pods, and all the rest were 
trampled upon and lost. Heretofore there has been little com- 
mercial interest in our keawe ; but there is a movement now on 
foot with the Japanese government to take large c|uantities of 
them, using them for the Ja])anese cavalry. These jxxls are un- 
questionably worth nearly as much as 1)arley. X(nv if a sugar 
plantation, or if a ranch, or if any large commercial outfit were 
to scatter several tons of barley under some shade trees they 
woulci have essentially the same proposition. But what will you 
do with them when you get them is the cjuestion asked by many. 
\\^)ul(l they get a market for them immediately? I consider that 
un(|uestionably the keawe bean as a forage ])ro])osition — as a 
feed crop — has been greatly underestimated. It has been one 
of the greatest blessings to Hawaii that she has ever known. We 
do not realize it exactly, when we allow thescbeans and pods to 
go to waste under the trees. 
THE C\)XSIiR\\VnOX OP HEALTH: WHAT THE IXDJ- 
VI DUAL AND CORPORATION CAN DO. 
Address i'.v Dr. W. C. Houdv. 
Mr. Chairman, T.adies and Gentlemen: 
The conservation of health, from the individual standpoint, is a 
feature that I am not going to dwell upon very long this after- 
noon, for in an audience of this kind, we all know enough to 
keep clean morally and physically, to eat slowly, to sleep in the 
open air and to be sure of the purity of our water supply. Fur- 
ther than that, we need not go into the conservation of health, 
so far as the individual is concerned. T am not going to i^ay 
any more attention to that at this time. I do not want you to 
