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FOREST FIRE WARDENS. 
The following appointments have recently been made by the 
Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry: 
District Forester. 
G. O. Cooper, in and for the District of Hana, Island of Maui. 
District Fire Wardens. 
Alexander Smith, in and for that portion of the District of 
Hamakua, Island of Hawaii, extending from the western 
boundary of the land of Paauhau to the land of Kukaiau. 
Alika Dowsett, in and for the District of Honuaula and Kahi- 
kinui. Island of Maui. 
A. Menefoglio, in and for Wainiha Valley, District of Hale- 
lea, Island of Kauai. 
Byron O. Clark, in and for Manoa Valley, District of Kona, 
Island of Oahu. 
H. C. Dolliver, in and for that portion of the Ewa District, 
Island of Oahu, lying to the east of the main government road 
between the northern boundary of the land of Manana and the 
Kaukonahua Gulch. 
James Gibb, in and for that portion of the Ewa District, Island 
of Oahu, lying between the lands of Moanalua and Waiawa. 
Sam R. Stone, in and for Palolo Valley, Island of Oahu. 
Walter F. Dillingham, in and for that portion of the Ewa 
District, Island of Oahu, lying to the west of the main govern- 
ment road. 
FORESTRY IN OUR COUNTRY SCHOOLS. 
(By O. E. HusE, '12, School of Agriculture of the Pennsylvania 
State College, in Penn State Farmer for May, 1911.) 
Educators, at the present time, are beginning to make a more 
practical application of the subjects taught in our schools and 
colleges. So in considering the question of, how much forestry 
is it practical to teach in our country schools, we must first 
answer the question of, how much use do the pupils in our 
country schools make of trees? The extent to which trees are 
used varies of course with local conditions, but we can find a 
number of general uses quite common to our country com- 
munities. 
The boy does not have to be very old before he wants a bow 
and arrow, and right then we may begin to teach him the best 
kind of wood for bows and arrows, how to cut the limbs from 
