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on that island and to confer with the manager of the Lanai Ranch 
in regard to other forest matters. 
EUCALYPTUS BULLETIN. 
On July 24 there was issued as Bulletin No. 1 of the Division 
of Forestry, Mr. Louis Margolin's "Eucalyptus Culture in Ha- 
waii," an illustrated report of 80 pages, the result of the study 
of the planted groves of eucalyptus in Hawaii, carried on jointly 
by this Board and the Forest Service of the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture during the winter and spring months of 1910. An 
edition of 3000 copies was printed. The bulletin is being generally 
distributed to persons throughout the Territory and on our foreign 
mailing list. This bulletin should prove of no small value to 
forest planters in Hawaii, as it brings together all the data now 
available in regard to growing eucalyptus in this Territory. . 
FEDERAL EXPERIMENTAL PLANTING. 
In this connection it is appropriate to note that the Forest Ser- 
vice has continued its allotments of former years for experimental 
forest planting in Hawaii, by granting the sum of $700 for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1912. The greater part of this money 
will be expended in continuing the experimental planting of 
eucalypts new to Hawaii, started last spring in Nuuanu Valley. 
TREE CUTTING ON TANTALUS. 
In response to a petition signed by a number of property own- 
ers on Tantalus Heights, arrangements were made about the mid- 
dle of the month with the county road authorities to fell the trees 
overhanging the road through the eucalyptus forest. I personally 
marked the trees to be cut. They are now being taken out. As 
v/ith the trees blown down by the heavy winds of last February, 
these trees will be cut up into cordwood and sold, the money so 
received going into the treasury as a government realization. 
Earlier in the month a few large eucalypts were felled to provide 
long timbers for the use of the Hawaiian Dredging Company. 
FOREST FIRES. 
On July 24 a forest fire was reported by Mr. Arthur K. Jones, 
manager of the Leilehua Ranch, as burning on the land of Hele- 
manu in the Waialua district, Oahu. The local authorities were 
at once notified and in the evening I went out to Wahiawa, going 
up early the next morning to the scene of the fire, in company 
with Mr. W. M. Templeton. the district fire warden, and Mr. 
George Cruickshank, head luna of the Waialua plantation. The 
fire had burned over between 125 and 150 acres of grass and 
