THE )HAWAIIAN 
mtSm i AGRICULTURIST 
Vol. VIII. OCTOBER, 1911. No. 10. 
Mr. W. M. Giffard has been selected by the Board of Agricul- 
ture and Forestry to conduct the campaign for the eradication 
of the Mediterranean fruit fly. As one of Hawaii's leading 
amateurs in horticulture and arboriculture, long a keen student 
in entomology, having also had many years of experience in 
large business afl^airs, Mr. Giffard is one man in a thousand for 
the task. The Board is to be congratulated on his acceptance, 
also upon his prompt taking hold of the work, he having begun 
to plan a course of action immediately on his return from a visit 
to the island of Kauai. 
Manufactures in Hawaii, of which the latest census report, 
covering the year 1909, appears in this number, of course mainly 
consist of the product of the sugar plantation factories. From 
about the year mentioned fruit and fruit juice preserving works, 
also factories preparing coffee and fiber for market, begin to 
add substantially to Hawaiian manufactures, and cotton may be 
made soon to increase the tale, providing its new pioneers in 
these islands do not allow themselves to be beaten by pests that 
have been subdued in other countries. Agriculture is as closely 
related to manufactures in Hawaii as mother to child, and this is 
true to a further extent than in the preparation, wholly or partly, 
of agricultural products for the consumers. Honolulu has iron- 
works that owe their development more to the sugar industry 
than anything else, which for some time have had no superior 
competitors anywhere in furnishing sugar factories to other 
countries. 
From C. M. Winslow, Brandon, Vermont, secretary Ayrshire 
Breeders' Association, has been received Ayrshire official 
Records No. 6, September, 1911. The publication is a small 
card folio. It contains a summary of each average annual yield 
of 362 cows and heifers, grouped as two year olds (54), three 
year olds (31), four year olds (15), mature (76) and cows and 
heifers (186), in twenty-nine separate reports. The purpose of 
giving each average is stated as being to show the uniformity 
of averages, the short introduction reading thus : "We have 
always claimed that the value of a dairy breed should be judged 
by the general average of dairy product for that breed and not 
