THE JHAWAIIAN 
mtSm I AGRICULTURIST 
Vol. VIII. JANUARY, 1911. No. 1. 
CONSERVATION MEETING. 
The greater part of this issue of the Forester is taken up by 
the addresses dehvered at the Special Conservation meeting- held 
in the Throne Room, at the Capitol Building, Honolulu, on No- 
vember 16, 1910, under the joint auspices of the Territorial 
Board of Agriculture and Forestry and the Hawaiian Sugar 
Planters' Association. 
The several addresses outline clearly the fundamental prin- 
ciples of Conservation in their relation to local needs. These 
speeches deserve the serious consideration of everyone. In 
Hawaii the right use of the natural resources is indeed the foun- 
dation of our prosperity. 
OPENING ADDRESS BY HON. MARSTON CAMPBELL. 
Gentlemen : — This meeting is called by the Board of Agri- 
culture and Forestry in cooperation with the Planters' Associa- 
tion for the purpose of bringing the representatives of the agri- 
cultural, manufacturing and grazing interests in touch with the 
Territorial Government in matters pertaining to our Natural Re- 
sources, their protection and extension to a greater and more 
beneficial use by the present and future generations, and for the 
further object of formulating some definite scheme of cooperation 
to that end. 
The Territorial Government, especially its Department of Pub- 
lic Works, in cooperation with the U. S. Geological Survey, the 
Department of Public Lands and Survey, and the Board of Agri- 
culture and Forestry, through its Bureaus of Forestry, Ento- 
mology and Animal Industry, as well as the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture, are engaged in extensive scientific investigations 
which are rapidly growing in scope and value to this community. 
Within the last year, cooperative agreements have been made 
between the Territorial Government, the U. S. Forestry Bureau 
and the U. S. Geological Survey, the latter in two of its import- 
ant branches of work, viz : 
1. Hydrographic Survey, an investigation of our water re- 
sources, surface, ground and artesian ; the result of such survey 
will be the information as regards the value of all our water re- 
