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application. Some copies are still available and will be sent on 
request. 
STRENGTH TESTS OF OH I A WObo. 
At the suggestion of the Superintendent of Forestry an arrange- 
ment has been made between the Hawaiian Development Com- 
pany and the College of Hawaii whereby systematic strength tests 
are to be made with ohia and lehua. Colonel Samuel Johnson, 
superintendent of the logging operations at Pahoa, Puna, Hawaii, 
has shipped to the college a number of pieces of sample sizes, 
some seasoned and some green. These will be broken and other- 
wise tested in the big Riehle testing machine in the engineering 
laboratory. The figures obtained will be made public in due 
course and should be of no small interest. A little later it is ex- 
pected that similar tests will be made on a number of kinds of 
eucalyptus and other exotic woods that have been grown locally. 
FOREST TREE SEED FOR MOUNTAIN PLANTING. 
Additional lots of seed of pine, fir and spruce trees from the 
mainland have been received recently from a number of national 
forests in California and other western states. The seed will be 
sown in the nurseries that have been established with the aid of 
federal funds on the upper slopes of Mauua Kea and Haleakala. 
Eventually the seedlings resulting will be planted out in the ex- 
perimental plots on these mountains. 
THE FORESTER. 
During the interregnum between the resignation of Mr. L. G. 
P)lackman as editor of The Forester and the appointment of Mr. 
Daniel Logan to succeed him I have, by direction of the executive 
officer, devoted some time this month to getting out the January 
issue of that magazine. It may perhaps be noted here that a 
special article on the poultry show^ and a complete prize list makes 
this number of The Forester of value for reference to local poultry 
fanciers. 
Very respectfully, 
Ralph S. Hosmer, 
Superintendent of Forestry. 
THIMBLE BERRY INVESTIGATION. 
Honolulu, Hawaii, February 9, 1910. 
Hon. Marston Campbell, President Board of Agriculture and 
Forestry. 
Dear Sir; — Last August Mr. J. F. Rock, botanical assistant in 
this Division, submitted to you a preliminary report on the “Hitch- 
