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dora) have also been felled and cut into logs. These will be 
hauled to town, sawn into squared timbers and delivered at the 
laboratory of the College of Hawaii for testing in the Riehle 
timber testing machine. The beams will be subjected to various 
tests which will show the strength of the wood and its adaptability 
for various uses. These figures will be published in due course. 
Congressional Vegetable Seed. 
Following the usual custom the Delegate to Congress has sent 
to the Board for local distribution his quota of the free Con- 
gressional vegetable seed. Packages have been made up and 
sent out to all the public schools having school gardens and to 
numerous individuals. Persons desiring seed will be supplied 
as long as the supply lasts, upon application to the Seed Clerk, 
Box 331, Honolulu, Hawaii. Only the following kinds of seed 
are available for distribution : Beans, collard, lettuce, musk- 
melon, okra, parsley, radish and turnip. 
Forest Reserve Boundaries. 
^Mention has already been made of a trip to iMaui, that occu- 
pied me from iMarch 4 to 17. The object of this trip was prin- 
cipally to fix on the ground, for exact location by i\Ir. S. iM. 
Kanakanui, government surveyor, the points of a proposed forest 
reserve in the Kula district. During my stay on ^laui I was 
able also to attend to a number of matters in regard to existing 
forest reserves and forest planting. 
Plans are now well in hand for the creation of two additional 
forest reserves on Oahu and Hawaii, more particularly the rem- 
nant of Government land above the Pupukea-Paumalu tract and 
a section of land near the bluff on one of the government lands 
now under lease to the Laupahoehoe Sugar Company, in North 
Hilo, which if reserved the Company has agreed to plant with 
forest trees. Reports in regard to both projects will shortly be 
submitted to the Board. 
\"ery respectfully, 
Ralph S. Hosmer, 
Superintendent of Forestry. 
DIVISION OF ANBIAL INDUSTRY. 
Hon. ]Marston Campbell, President and Executive Officer, Board 
of Agriculture and Forestry. 
Sir : — I beg to report on the work of this Division since the last 
meeting of the Board on iMarch 14, as follows : 
Inspection Service. 
The circular letter adressed to agents and representatives of 
steamship and navigation companies which was approved by this 
