THE HAWAIIAN FORESTER 
AND AGRICULTURIST 
Vol. XIX. Honolulu, December, 1922. No. 12 
The routine reports of the Superintendents for October and 
November, 1922, are printed in this issue of The Forester. 
The fencing of the niakai boundary of the Hilo Forest Reserve 
continues at a satisfactory rate. 
Internal parasites of the pineapple mealy bug and of the guava 
mealy bug were received from the Assistant Entomologist in 
Mexico during October. 
For planting on Arbor Day, which was celebrated this year 
on November 17, 1922, 12,534 trees were distributed from the 
four tree nurseries of the Board. 
All of the veterinarians of the Board met with the Commis- 
sioners on December 5 and 6, 1922, in Honolulu and discussed 
important topics in connection with diseases of swine and cattle. 
The thinning out of some of the trees along the road to the 
Pali in Nuuanu Valley has opened up delightful vistas of nearby 
waterfalls and distant mountainsides. 
Kauri pine trees at Waiahole, Oahu. have grown seven feet 
in two and a half years where they were cultivated, but the 
trees merely planted in holes in the brush have grown only one 
foot in height in the same time. 
\^olume measurements made by the students taking the forestry 
course at the University of Hawaii show that the swamp maho- 
gany (Eucalyptus rohiista) forest on Tantalus which is 34 years 
old produces 129.2 cords of wood per acre. 
