THE jHAWAIIAN 
P0RE6TER I AGRICULTURIST 
VoL. VIII OCTOBER, 1910 No. 10 
FORESTRY IN MINNESOTA. 
It is always interesting to know what is being clone outside 
of your own part of the nation, or of the world, with regard 
to any industry or cause with which you are concerned at 
home. With less than ten pages of reading matter, the Min- 
nesota Forester for June, edited by the Division of Forestry, 
University of Minnesota, contains a variety of useful infor- 
mation under eight heads. It is the official bulletin of the 
Minnesota Forestry Association, a body which has under- 
taken the passage of certain tax amendments, at the election 
in November, the purpose of which is to provide funds for 
State forestry work. 
One of the articles discusses a law now in force which com- 
nels the lumbermen to burn all the debris left after the lum- 
bering operations before the first of May. Some objections 
to the law are rebutted, while others are sustained, but the 
faults are held to be those which ''are common to all laws 
attempting to make some one provision or mandate suit the 
varying conditions of the different parts of a whole State.” 
Of course, the object of the law is the prevention of forest 
fires. To have the law work satisfactorily throughout the 
State, the article says, it would be necessary to divide the 
State into districts and place a competent man in charge of 
each. The present obstacles to such a plan are the lack of 
funds and the lack of competent men, and the article puts 
it "up to the lumbermen who are not satisfied with the work- 
ing of the present law to see to it that the next legislature pro- 
vides the^ means for a better one. Minnesota,” the writer con- 
cludes, "is already in the lead in such matters and she should 
be kept ahead.” The plan here suggested for Minnesota may 
be well to keep in mind for future consideration in Hawaii. 
With the many forest reserves now established in these 
Islands, and the rapid growth of trees here, it will not be 
long before a paid force of forest rangers must be employed 
to watch against fires as well as trespass by man or beast. 
Another article in the Minnesota Forester arrests atten- 
