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FORESTRY AT THE UNIVERSITY. 
On account of the dependence of the main agricultural indus- 
try of these islands on a steady flow of water, the protection of 
the forests which conserve this water is a territorial necessity. 
It has been planned for some time to impress this upon the 
students at the University of Hawaii but not until this year has 
any regular instruction in forestry been given. 
As a temporary expedient, the course is being first presented 
by the Superintendent of Forestry and his assistant who have 
undertaken the work in addition to their regular official duties 
in the hope that several of the students will be attracted to 
forestry and sufficiently trained to take up forest work as rangers, 
for which position qualified young men of the proper tempera- 
ment are not available in the islands. 
The course, which will be given only during the first semester, 
from September 13, 1922, to January 15, 1923, includes 34 lec- 
tures and 17 field periods and covers the history of forestry, 
forest protection, forest mapping, dendrology, forest planting, 
silvics, and forest mensuration. 
Mr. Judd has the lecture hour at 9 a. m. on Mondays and Mr. 
Kraebel the same hour on Wednesdays. Field work, which is 
given by each on alternate Monday afternoons, embraces actual 
nursery work and tree planting, height, diameter, and volume 
measurement of trees, mapping of woodlands by use of tele- 
scopic alidade and plane table and by traverse board and open- 
sight alidade, and the identification in the field of native and 
introduced trees. 
Fourteen students of the senior and junior classes who are tak- 
ing instruction in sugar technology are enrolled in this course in 
forestry. 
C. S. J. 
GOAT CONTROL IN HAWAII. 
By C. S. Judd, Superintendent of Forestry. 
The damage done by wild goats to natural forage and to forest 
growth in the Territory of Hawaii is well known and the neces- 
sity of controlling the increase of the wild goat population is 
especially recognized with good reason by ranchers who see their 
cattle being deprived of the feed on grazing lands which at their 
best are none too productive of nourishing cattle feed. 
The desire to get rid of the goats has been ever present but the 
expense of extermination or control, the small remuneration 
derived from the goats, and the fact that goats are nomadic 
and hence menace more than one ranch, have tended to prevent 
the individual rancher from waging a war of extermination upon 
