THE JHAWAIIAN 
rORE5TER I AGRICULTURIST 
Vol. VIII. AUGUST, 1911. No. 8. 
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE. 
In the July number an advance notice was given to the bulletin 
of the Division of Forestry on "Eucalyptus Culture in Hawaii/' 
by Louis Margolin, forest examiner of the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. While public opinion may not be prepared to sup- 
port a proposition of making eucalypts a leading choice for exten- 
sive tree planting, either by private or government enterprise, 
there must be unanimous assent to the general remarks of Mr. 
Margolin, at the beginning of his treatise, on the ''Need of Local 
Timber Supply." They should be turned to practical account by 
every landowner in the islands. Every tree of commercial value 
for which space can be spared will enhance the value of the land 
upon which it stands long before the time when it shall become 
mature for market purposes or for utilizing its material upon the 
farm or ranch where grown. It will increase in intrinsic worth 
until ready for the axe like a bond on which the coupons are left 
intact until the day of redemption. As the bulletin will necessarily 
have a somewhat selected circulation, the remarks to which refer- 
ence is made are here reproduced : 
"The Territory of Hawaii, with its extensive sugar plantations, 
camps, flumes, tunnels, and irrigation ditches, uses large quan- 
tities of timber and lumber. No complete statistics on this sub- 
ject are available, but the following figures may be considered 
as quite conservative. There were during the last three or four 
years used annually in Hawaii over forty million board feet 
of sawed lumber and timber, 75,000 cords of firewood, 20,000 to 
25,000 railroad ties, 25,000,000 shingles and 40,000 to 50,000 
fence posts. This annual consumption of wood represents a 
value to the consumer of at least one and one-half million dol- 
lars. With the more intensive development of the plantations, 
the increase in population, the development of irrigation systems, 
homesteads, and small farming, and the further extension of 
roads and power lines, the consumption of lumber will constantly 
increase. The problem of finding an adequate source of supply 
of wood becomes, therefore, of paramount importance to the 
future growth of the country. 
''The native Hawaiian forest is entirely inadequate to meet the 
demand for lumber consumed in the Territory. Although the 
