THE JHAWAIIAN 
FORESTER I AGRICULTURIST 
Vol. VIII. SEPTEMBER, 1911. No. 9. 
There is an unprecedented absence of official reports in this 
number owing to the absence of executive officers from both the 
city and the Territory, preventing the holding of meetings of 
the board and the rendering of reports. The omission is made 
up for by the printing of valuable summaries and selections from 
the Forester's mail. 
Before the August number of this magazine had gone through 
the press, the appointment of Mr. S. T. Starrett of California to 
fill the new office of marketing superintendent for the Territory 
had been announced in the newspapers. The event is one of 
great satisfaction. Mr. Starrett made a report of a preliminary 
trip over a considerable portion of the Territory, which the editor 
hopes to obtain for publication in full in the October number. 
Part of the title page of the Journal of the Jamaica Agricul- 
tural Society is this elevated sentiment: "Agriculture is a pro- 
fession and occupation in which a man may spend a lifetime, and 
at the end of it be able to say, in all sincerity, that he has still got 
far more to learn than he knows. It is only the ignorant who 
have nothing more to learn." 
Commissioner Judd saw fourteen hundred acres in beautiful 
corn at Waimea. At Kapoho he found a homesteader who had 
made $2000 the past year in raising sugar cane for a plantation 
mill. Surely here are luminous proofs that sugar is not the whole 
thing in Hawaiian agriculture, and that the homesteader properly 
situated can live handsomely off sugar. Put the two things to- 
gether and several problems of Hawaii are solved. 
