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a rare insight into the strivings after the attainment of modern 
agriculture among one of the most conservative peoples of the 
world. The discussions of the conference treated of the staples 
of wheat, sugar, cotton, etc., also dairy farming and rural and 
urban cooperative credit societies, of these last mentioned insti- 
tutions remarkably good results in the promotion of agricultural 
and mechanical industries being reported. Enclosed with the 
pamphlet were bulletins respectively on the cultivation of lucerne 
and on the foot and mouth disease. The former of these may 
be worth the while of our stock raisers to peruse, in connection 
with the long quest for the best fodder plants for Hawaii. 
Manurial Experiments with Sugar Cane in the Leeward Is- 
lands, 1909-10. This is a brochure of fifty-six pages of the pam- 
phlet series of the Department of Agriculture for the West In- 
dies. Probably its findings will be of interest and usefulness to 
any of our sugar cane planters who may care to look it up in 
the bureau library. 
FOREST NURSERIES FOR SCHOOLS. 
(In connection with the school gardens movement promoted in 
Hawaii by Professor MacCaughey and others, the following ex- 
tracts from Farmers' Bulletin 423 of the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, under the above title, ought to prove of great inter- 
est in this Territory. The technical parts of the bulletin only are 
omitted, as the treatise deals mostly with trees that are not suit- 
able for the Hawaiian soil and climate. If, however, the matter 
of forest nurseries for schools be taken up here, the Territorial 
Bureau of Forestry, together with the College of Hawaii and the 
Hawaii Experiment Station, may be relied on to furnish the 
technical directions to teachers and pupils which may be re- 
quired.) 
INTRODUCTION. 
In recent years there has been evident a decided movement to- 
ward the introduction of nature study and elementary agriculture 
into the regular work of the public schools. One of the most 
popular and interesting features of this movement has been the 
school garden. The large number of schools, both rural and city, 
which have established gardens, and the volume of literature 
which has been contributed on this subject, attest the importance 
and success which the school garden has achieved in the educa- 
tional world. 
Hitherto most school gardens have been devoted exclusively 
to the growing of common garden vegetable and flowering plants, 
with here and there the introduction of new species as an addi- 
tional incentive to interest. One of the chief difficulties encoun- 
tered has been that most of the plants and vegetables suitable 
