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Islands. The native forests are entirely inadequate both in ex- 
tent and character to furnish this supply. The continental United 
States is approaching a time when it will be no longer in a posi- 
tion to export cheap lumber to Hawaii. The Islands can grow 
their own lum.ber supply before the timber scarcity comes, pro- 
vided immediate planting is done on a commercial scale." 
What our Washington correspondent says about the lemon 
tariff ought to furnish an argument in favor of an equitable degree 
of protection for American coffee. Free coffee is little different 
from the actual subsidizing of the coffee industry of Brazil, and 
anyone familiar with the practice of the grocery trade knows that 
coffee is used like trading stamps to fertilize general business, so 
that no one probably thinks seriously that a small duty on coffee 
would materially, if at all, make the breakfast table dearer. Mr. 
McChesney's article in the July number gave a good insight into 
the advantage Brazil takes of the defenseless condition of the 
American coffee producer. Properly encouraged, Hawaii and 
Porto Rico could supply the country with at least a very large 
proportion of the best qualities of coffee which the home con- 
sumption demands. 
That it was really a great work that a majority of the former 
Board of Supervisors accomplished when they passed the milk 
ordinance now in force, after having had a previous draft bill suc- 
cessfully vetoed with the aid of legal talent hired by a group of 
dairymen, following up this victory over ignorance, prejudice and 
hired forensics by gaining the willing cooperation of the Board 
of Agriculture and Forestry and voting all the funds requested 
for the Territorial veterinary services required, is amply demon- 
strated by the comprehensive report of results made by Dr. Nor- 
gaard which is printed in this number. It is gratifying to know 
that the three public boards mentioned in the report are still 
cooperating in the cause of pure and wholesome milk as well as 
the welfare of the dairy industry itself. 
In its June number the Tropical Agriculturist quotes from the 
Indian Trade Journal a portion of the bulletin on ''Peanuts in 
Hawaii" of the Hawaii Experiment Station. 
An article from the Philippine Agriculturist and Forester for 
January on ''Activities of the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment 
Station" is being serially reprinted by the Tropical Agriculturist 
(Ceylon). It says in opening that the government of the Dutch 
East Indies must be given the honor of having maintained the 
most advanced activity in tropical agriculture, but a little farther 
on asserts, "But the most foremost rival of Java today is Hawaii." 
