THE jHAWAIIAN 
FORESTER i AGRICULTURIST 
Vol. VIII. APRIL, 1911. No. 4. 
PHILIPPINE COLLEGE MAGAZINE. 
From the Philippines comes an agreeable piece of printed evi- 
dence of the promotion of scientific agriculture in that group. 
This is in the shape of a new magazine called the Philippine Agri- 
culturist and Forester, the second number of which has been re- 
ceived, which is published by the Student Body of the College of 
Agriculture, Los Banos, the first institution of the kind in the 
Philippines. It is explained in the advertisement of the maga- 
zine that the Student Body is "s. joint society of the students," 
and the motive of the publication is made clear enough as follows : 
"We believe that the future of the Philippines depends upon its 
farms, and considering the methods of diffusing a knowledge of 
agriculture we endeavor to offer a paper which will prove prac- 
tical to farmers and foresters ; we hope it may also be useful to 
scientists. This, then, is our main aim in bringing forth the 
Philippine Agriculturist and Forester. We also realize the bene- 
fits that we can earn in preparing such a paper, not only in the 
knowledge of literature, but also in stimulation of harder work in 
the field of scientific investigations. We wish our readers to 
partake with us of the experience we may acquire." 
One of the articles is on root crops, with the yautia the product 
treated, this being a West India plant scientifically named 
Xanthosoma sagitti folium, of which stock was imported into the 
Philippines some years ago by the Bureau of Agriculture. It is 
stated that, for local food, the yautia is one of the most important 
Porto Rican crops. The plant is described as in its habit very 
like the Philippine gabi, of which this remark is made : ''The 
gabi, Caladiiim Colocasia, known more widely in English as taro, 
and in Flawaii as poi, is too familiar in the Philippines to need 
description." It will make the student who wrote this laugh him- 
self when he learns that taro is only the modern Hawaiian spell- 
mg of the name of the plant, the older form being kalo, and that 
poi is the name of the chief native food made from taro. 
In the destructive eruption of the Taal volcano in January the 
students had a most sensational as well as a unique opportunity 
of instruction. So near is the college to the volcano that, accord- 
