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Mr. C. S. Judd, the newly appointed head of both the agricul- 
tural and the public lands departments, has arrived and will enter 
upon the duties of his offices the first of next month. Both as a 
Hawaiian-born citizen and a trained expert in the Federal bureau 
of forestry, Mr. Judd is generally welcomed to the management 
of these supremely important subdivisions of the Territorial 
Government. 
Mr. F. A. Clowes, of the Hawaii Experiment Station, is 
quoted from Hilo as stating that about 3000 pounds of islan 1 
butter is being consumed monthly in that town and neighbor- 
hood, for which the makers average about forty-five cents a 
pound. This means that $1350 a month, or $16,200 a year, is 
received by the less than twenty small farmers that are said to 
be engaged in the business. With some of these dairying is the 
exclusive occupation. Further, the encouraging feature of the 
industry is mentioned that consumers ask for island butter and 
are wilHng to pay more for the first quality article of such than 
for the best imported. 
In the catalogue of new bulletins in the Monthly List of Pub- 
lications of the United States Department of Agriculture are 
the following: "The Sugar-cane Insects of Hawaii, by D. L. 
Van Dine, special field agent, pp. 54, pis, 4, figs. 5 (Bulletin 
93, Bureau of Entomology) ;" 'The Assimilation of Nitrogen 
by Kice, by W. P. Kelley, chemist, under the supervision of 
Office of Experiment Stations, U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ture, pp. 20 (Bulletin 24, Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion)." There are two circulars mentioned which might be of 
value to agriculturists in these islands — one treating of the dam- 
age to sugar cane in Louisiana by the sugar-cane borer, by T. C. 
Barber, agent and expert ; and one dealing with the mango 
weevil, by C. L. Marlott, entomologist. 
An article in the Pomona Journal of Economic Botany, on 
the Avocado in Southern California, is reviewed in the Agri- 
cultural News (West Indies). The review says: ''Information 
is given to show that seedlings of West Indian and Hawaiian 
varieties have been grown in California, but the plants are not 
sufficiently old to afford definite indications as to their value." 
