THE JHAWAIIAN 
FORESTER I AGRICULTURIST 
Vol. VIII. MAY, 1911. No. 5. 
The palm weevil is attacking sugar cane in Trinidad. 
An article in the Agricultural News (W. 1.) on the fungus 
causing pineapple disease quotes Cobb and L. D. Larsen, the 
latter from a bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Associa- 
tion, upon the pest as affecting sugar cane and pineapples in 
these islands. 
This number of The Forester contains the conclusion of the 
valuable series of articles on ''Soil AmeHoration," by Mr. Hagens, 
and that of Professor MacCaughey's paper on ''The Use of Plant 
Materials in Nature Study Teaching," which ought to be of great 
service to school teachers. 
The Tropical Agriculturist of Ceylon is reprinting from this 
magazine the article of Mr. F. G. Krauss on rice and cotton in- 
vestigations in China and Japan, also the study of the composi- 
tion of the rice plant by W. P. Kelley and Alice R. Thompson 
from a bulletin of the Hawaii Experiment Station. 
At a meeting of the general purposes committee of the Inter- 
national Rubber Exhibition, to open in London on June 24 and 
close on July 14, the president, Sir Henry A. Blake, G. C. M. G., 
gave a statement of countries that he had been informed were 
exhibiting officially, among them being the Hawaiian Islands. 
"Forest Nurseries for Schools" is the title of Farmers' Bulletin 
No. 423 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. It is by Walter 
M. Moore, first assistant, and Edwin R. Jackson, expert, of the 
Forest Service. Circular No. 99, from the office of Experiment 
Stations, is entitled "Farmers' Institutes for Young People," the 
authors being John Hamilton and J. M. Stedman, specialist and 
assistant specialist respectively. Both of these treatises would 
undoubtedly be useful in all schools where agriculture and forestry 
are in anywise taught. 
