THE jHAWAIIAN 
F0RE8TER I AGRICULTURIST 
VoL. VII FEBRUARY, 1910 No. 2 
FOR MUTUAL INSTRUCTION. 
It is desired to make this magazine of practical benefit to the 
homesteader in the country and to tlie home-owner in town. 
This can not best be done without the cooperation of those 
worthies, as well in asking for information as in giving it. 
Through the medium of these pages we trust that the experts in 
the different divisions of the Bureau of Agriculture will solve 
some of the difficult problems that beset the rural and the urban 
home-maker. On the other hand, it may not be too much to ask 
that those who have overcome difficulties in either of the situations 
mentioned will not be slow to give the benefit of their experience 
to the beginner or the discouraged experimenter through the same 
medium. 
From the scientific experts we should bespeak replies to ques- 
tions, or voluntary contributions, in popular science style, so to 
speak, avoiding technical expression above the understanding of 
the man of average intelligence. From the men who do things 
with the soil and in the breeding of bird, beast or bee, we should 
invite statements of their methods as clear and concise as they can 
make them. Where differences of opinion may develop which 
can not be referred to diverse conditions, it will be useful to have 
all the facts likely to aid the judgment of inquirers brought out in 
friendly discussion. Those familiar with the annals of sugar 
planting and manufacture in these islands will not need to be told 
how valuable full and free discussion of mooted questions is to 
any industry. 
To make this a magazine of practical information, therefore, 
Ave have already taken steps to procure articles of instruction from 
the experts, besides which with the assistance of readers we hope 
to be able to establish a regular department of questions and 
answers. 
