THE JHAWAIIAN 
FORESTER I AGRICULTURIST 
Vol. VIII. NOVEMBER, 1911. No. 11. 
In this number space is given for a comprehensive report, in 
the U. S. consular series, upon the Canadian cooperative fruit 
associations ; also a brief report on a fruit exchange formed in 
Cuba. There is no doubt material in these reports which might 
be drawn upon by those who are moving for marketing advan- 
tages for small farmers and homesteaders in the Territory of 
Hawaii. Long ago the Forester brought to the attention of its 
readers the great benefits of cooperation to fruit raisers in Cali- 
fornia and Jamaica. 
In this number is reprinted the text of a little pamphlet on the 
correspondence courses in agriculture of the College of Hawaii. 
It is revised, as herein appearing, in a number of verbal particu- 
lars, by Professor MacCaughey. The brochure can hardly fail to 
influence boys of the Territory about concluding their ordinary 
school career, having their own choice — as well as attracting the 
attention of elder citizens taking a concern in having the youth 
look that way for a livelihood — toward making further pursuit 
of knowledge in the line of practical tillage of the soil, the basis of 
Hawaii's prosperity. 
President Taft's advice to the agricultural public, conveyed in 
his address before the National Conservation Congress, with ref- 
erence especially to the necessity of deep tillage, rotation of crops 
and efficient drainage, contains nothing new in principle. These 
three cardinal essentials of successful farming many of us who 
spent our earlier years upon the soil will remember to have seen 
expounded in books in the little libraries of our fathers. Yet the 
advice is none the less timely and necessary even in these days of 
abounding and advanced science of all industries. Generations of 
farmers have arisen upon soil in our country's vast domain which 
was virgin to their fathers, and by the latter mistakenly imagined 
as being of practically exhaustless richness and fertility. Those 
who have not found out the mistake by experience, for which in 
some regions there has not yet been time enough elapsed since 
the soil was first turned over by the plowshare, must now be 
helped to the knowledge by instruction. Their case is precisely 
similar to that of our forefathers, who likewise thought the quali- 
ties of the land on which they were pioneers were everlasting. 
