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DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 
Honolulu, Oct. 31, 1911. 
Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry. 
Gentlemen : — I have the honor to submit as follows the 
routine report of the Division of Forestry for the month of Octo- 
ber, 1911: 
During the first ten days of the month my own time was taken 
up with the preparation of a comprehensive planting plan for 
lands in the Koolau District, Maui, drawn up at the request of 
the managers of the Maui Agricultural Company and the Hawai- 
ian Commercial & Sugar Company, as the result of various visits 
to that locality. The area to be planted — for the most part gov- 
ernment land within the Koolau forest reserve — is the section 
along the irrigation ditches where the native forests died some 
years ago. The object of the planting is to fill up the blanks in 
the forest on the exposed ridges with trees able to grow under 
the unfavorable conditions that characterize that locality. The 
trees planted will be useful in themselves and will, it is believed, 
by affording protection against the strong and continuous winds, 
assist the return of the native forest on these ridges. 
Later in the month I spent some time in preparing a brief ad- 
dress for the annual meeting of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' 
Association, and in gathering data for and making out a supple- 
mentary report on the awa question and a letter of suggestion to 
the Bishop estate trustees in regard to a forest problem on one 
of their lands. 
On October 18, in company with Mr. O. L. Sorenson, I visited 
Kawailoa, Waialua, Oahu, in this connection, going the next day 
to Pupukea, where I made a final inspection of the tree planting 
on ''Water Reserve C." in the Pupukea forest reserve. All the 
trees on that tract having now reached the height required in the 
contract — 3 feet — I have accepted the work as complete and have 
O. K.'d Mr. C. G. Owen's final bill under his contract. This little 
forest plantation is growing excellently. It is distinctly a good 
asset. , 
Arbor Day. 
Preparations for Arbor Day, Nov. 10, 1911, have kept the nur- 
sery staff busy during the last half of the month. As usual a 
considerable number of consignments of trees have been sent out 
to the schools all over the Territory. On Arbor Day two dozen 
trees each will be given to as many persons as have made applica- 
tion and will call for the same at the Government nursery. 
On October 28th Governor Frear issued a proclamation for- 
mally setting apart November 10th as Conservation and Arbor 
Day and recommending its general observance. 
