THE jHAWAIIAN 
F0RE8TER I AGRICULTURIST 
VoL. VII APRIL, 1910 No. 4 
A circular for free distribution, recently issued by the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, treats of fruit growing for home use 
in the central and southern great plains. As it is the result of a 
departmental study made for the benefit of a region that is not 
naturally favorable for fruit on account of the lack of moisture, 
the circular may be of advantage to homesteaders in the drier 
parts of these islands. Where irrigation is possible, fruit grow- 
ing is comparatively easy. If conservation of a scant rainfall 
is the main dependence, much depends on using the most favor- 
able location, selecting the most suitable varieties, cultivation and 
manuring of the soil, etc. 
Since the publication of the March number, California has 
adopted more stringent quarantine against Hawaiian vegetables 
than that therein mentioned. San Francisco merchants forced 
the issue by appealing over the head of the State Horticultural 
Commissioner to Governor Gillett, but all they had for their 
pains was absolute prohibition in place of mere precaution. “Im- 
mediately following the appeal,” a Sacramento dispatch of April 
3 says, “the Governor and Horticultural Commissioner Jefifrey 
got together and drafted a quarantine proclamation which shuts 
out Hawaiian tomatoes and cucumbers entirely. Should this fly 
or maggot get hold in California, Jefifrey says, it would be a 
great menace to several industries of the State, principally water- 
melons, muskmelons, cucumbers and tomatoes, which in the 
islands are raised under mosquito netting to prevent the fly from 
laying eggs thereon.” 
An order efifective April 1, issued by the Secretary of Agricul- 
ture, released from the Federal quarantine for Texas fever or 
tick fever of cattle certain areas amounting to over 48,000 square 
miles. The total territory freed of ticks and released from 
quarantine since the beginning of the work of tick eradication 
in 1906 is about 130,000 square miles, or an area nearly half the 
