THE JHAWAIIAN 
F0RE5TER I AGRICULTURIST 
Vol. VIII. JULY, 1911. No. 7. 
A broadside has been received by the Forester, containing the 
advance premium hst of the annual exposition of Dry Farmed 
Products, to be held under the auspices of the International Dry 
Farming Congress, at Colorado Springs, October 16-21, 1911. 
Premiums and trophies amounting in value to $5000 will be paid 
out for prize awards. The grand sweepstake prize will be a 
trophy in the form of a cup worth $250. There is considerable 
dry farming in Hawaii, and probably scope for more than exists, 
but in most cases those engaged in it could hardly afford to show 
anything at any exposition outside of the islands. Yet it might 
be of great advantage to agriculture in this Territory if it were 
represented at such a fair as this one by someone competent to 
make observations and acquire and collate data on the subject of 
dry farming. In the same connection, the idea occurs that, among 
the various objects of public aid to agriculture here which the 
legislature appropriates, a moderate fund might be provided for 
sending exhibits, or at least sample lots, of raw and preserved 
agricultural products to such important exhibitions or great fairs 
as may be held from year to year at central points on the main- 
land. There should be no trouble about enlisting the good offices 
of some responsible person of the place where the show was to 
be held to handle the exhibit or distribute the samples and at- 
tractive literature pertaining both to the products and the islands. 
Such a campaign would fit in well with the movement to market 
Hawaiian products. 
Mr. C. S. Sterrett, of Los Angeles, the marketing expert 
brought here under legislation of last session, but only accepting 
a temporary engagement instead of the permanent one intended 
for such an official, is now making a tour of the group in com- 
pany with Dr. E. V. Wilcox, director of the Hawaii Experiment 
Station. Some of his findings at different places already pub- 
lished in the newspapers indicate that his employment will yield 
a valuable body of information and advice, which it will then re- 
main for our agricultural authorities and producers to turn to 
practical account. It will not do to allow his report to be use- 
lessly buried in the archives, like the productions of many gov- 
ernment commissions on various subjects for which the taxpayers 
of Hawaii have paid more or less liberally in years past. 
