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An editorial abstract is given by the Agricultural News (West 
Indies) of a IMemorandum on the Principles and Methods of 
Rural Education, issued by the Board of Education of England. 
It is interesting to note, apropos of Professor MacCaughey's 
paper in this number, that the publication mentioned lays much 
importance on the school garden, also on secondary schools such 
as legislation of this year contemplates establishing in this Terri 
tory, where agricultural training will be combined with other 
education. 
As this number goes to press, no appointment of a marketing 
superintendent has been made. According to the daily press, 
there is political opposition to Mr. Starrett, the California expert 
who has gone over the ground and made an illuminating report 
cn the market possibilities, upon the ground that he is not a 
citizen of Hawaii. If such a principle had obtained here in the 
past, either with public or private interests, where would the 
present boasted development of these islands, which is famed the 
world around, be? 
L. Lewton-Brain, formerly micrologist at the experiment station 
of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, is now director of 
agriculture in the Federated Malay States. With his assump- 
tion of the office the department has been extended, he having 
seven assistants where his predecessor had practically the whole 
work on his shoulders. Mr. Lewton-Brain took the position about 
the time that F. T. P. Waterhouse visited the Malay States a few 
months ago to look over the rubber plantations in which the 
Waterhouse Company, Ltd., is heavily interested. 
DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 
Honolulu, August 4, 1911. 
Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry, Hono- 
lulu, T. H. 
Gentlemen : — I have the honor to submit the report of the Divi- 
sion of Forestry for the month of July, 1911. 
During the first ten days of the month my own time was given 
to the preparation of reports to the Board on the sale of awa 
from forest reserves and an application for a water license in 
Kau, to correcting the final proofs of the Eucalyptus bulletin, and 
to other routine work. 
TRIP TO LANAI. 
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From July 11 to 15 I visited the island of Lanai to inspect, at 
the request of the Lanai Company, a forest fence now being built 
