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Japanese cultivators in Palolo Valley are peddling very excellent 
articles of potatoes, beets, cabbage, carrots, etc., from door to door 
in the Waialae suburbs. Honolulu should not require to import 
any garden truck. 
Inspector Newell's remarks about bad potatoes will be appre- 
ciated by many a housekeeper in Hawaii. There is perhaps not 
another article of food with which households are more commonly 
swindled — done out of hard-earned money for worse than nega- 
tive value. Pure food laws when enforced are among the greatest 
of present day boons, and faithful inspection of provisions, such 
as will bar unfit goods from market, is more important even than 
the detection of adulterated and unsound specimens in stocks 
already under retail disposal. The vileness of a tainted potato, 
like that of a bad egg, may be discovered only when it is too late 
to return the goods and make the seller bear the loss. And he 
ought to bear the loss, any retailer who will allow a producer or 
a middleman to impose unfit goods upon him more than once. 
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF AGRICULTURE 
AND FORESTRY. 
A meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and 
Forestry was held at the office of the Superintendent of Public 
Works, in the Capitol building, on Monday, Alarch 14, at 2 p. m. 
Present: Mr. Marston Campbell, president and executive officer, 
IMessrs. D. P. R. Isenberg and J. AT Dowsett, members. 
Mr. Campbell stated that the survey and map of the Pupukea- 
Paumalu forest reserve was being prepared for submission to the 
Governor. 
KoJiala Forest Reserve. 
President Campbell reported that the plantation interests in 
Kohala have succeeded in getting together the sum of $24,250. 
Under the appraisement made of Kehena II, the land was placed 
at $10.00 per acre. The opinion of the Board, when the Kohala 
forest matter first came up, was that the Government should secure 
all of the lands free of any encumbrances or any additional pay- 
ment by the Government. The condition now is that it is impos- 
sible to do that. He said he had discussed this matter with Gov- 
ernor Frear. Mr. Campbell’s suggestion was that the Board 
accept the tender of $24,250 by the plantation interests of Kohala 
toward the acquirement of the land of Kehena II. If satisfactory 
arrangement cannot be made with the Woods Estate and they 
refuse settlement on the basis of $10.00 per acre, the president 
said he would request of the Board that the Superintendent of 
Public Works be instructed to enter condemnation proceedings. 
