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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 
A meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and 
Forestry was held at the board room, in the Capitol, on Wednes- 
day, April 27, 1910, at 2 p. m. Present: Mr. Marston Campbell, 
president and executive officer, Messrs. J. M. Dowsett and Albert 
Waterhouse, members; and R. S. Hosmer, Superintendent of 
Forestry, by request. 
FORESTRY MATTERS. 
The President read a special report submitted by the Superin- 
tendent of Forestry under date of April 26, 1910, recommending 
the setting apart as a small forest reserve of a portion of the 
government land of Hauola in the District of Hamakua, Island of 
Hawaii. 
Mr. Campbell stated that this land, which the Hamakua Mill 
Company have at present under lease, is of no particular value. 
This area contains seven acres more or less. 
The Superintendent of Forestry recommended that the Board 
approve the reserve and request the Governor to set apart this 
section to protect the Hamakua Mill Company’s planting, and 
stated that it is deemed advisable to have a windbreak along the 
edge of the bluff, on the land of Opihilala, to protect the cane, 
or any crop growing in the lower fields. Planting this portion 
with a windbreak will also increase the value of the mauka area. 
The Hamakua Mill Company has proposed to the government 
that this strip of land be set apart as a forest reserve. If this is 
done they will plant it with a windbreak of Ironwood trees and 
care for the same during a period of twenty-one years, the Mill 
Company to have the right to any wood that may result from 
wood cutting, should it be deemed advisable by the forest officials 
of the Territory to make thinnings or improvement cuttings in 
the planted belt. 
The Hamakua Mill Company’s lease from the government ter- 
minates May 18, 1914, and these people wish to insure the con- 
tinuance of the windbreak in the event of the land being sub- 
divided at the expiration of the present lease. If this area is set 
apart now as a forest reserve, the planted forest can be efficiently 
protected, but if not there is nothing to prevent the destruction 
of the trees, were the land later subdivided and opened up. 
Mr. Campbell said that by agreeing to set this small tract apart 
as a forest reserve the government has the advantage of having it 
planted with desirable trees, free of cost. This planting will 
greatly benefit the section lying next mauka and in ten years 
ought to be a good crop. 
It was voted that the portion in question of the government 
land of Hauola in the District of Hamakua, Island of Oahu, be 
