THE JHAWAIIAN 
F0RE8TER I AGRICULTURIST 
VoL. VII DECEMBER, 1910 No. 12 
SPECIAL CONSERVATION MEETING. 
On Wednesday afternoon, November 16, 1910, there was 
held in the Throne Room at the Capitol, Honolulu, a public 
meeting to consider the local application of the five cardinal 
points of Conservation — the right use of lands, waters, for- 
ests and minerals, and the safeguarding of public health. 
The meeting was held under the joint auspices of the Ter- 
ritorial Board of Agriculture and Forestry and of the Ha- 
waiian Sugar Planters’ Association. It was so timed as to 
become a part of the program of the annual meeting of the 
H. S. P. A. In the audience were a majority of the sugar 
plantation managers and other members of that Association, 
but in addition there was also present a goodly company of 
persons representative of the best thought and influence in 
the Territory in other lines. 
Short addresses were made by Governor Frear, Messrs. 
Marston- Campbell, Ralph S. Hosmer, Dr. E. V. Wilcox, Hon. 
W. O. Smith, Dr. W. C. Hobdy, Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, and 
Mr. Alonzo Gartley on various phases of the Conservation 
problem in its local aspects. These addresses contain so 
much that is worthy of permanent record that it has been 
decided to print them practically in full in the Forester. 
Next month’s issue will, therefore, be a special Conserva- 
tion number, the publication of the addresses being delayed 
that the stenographic notes may be revised by the several 
speakers. 
We are sure that many of those in attendance at the meet- 
ing will be glad to read again the statements presented. To 
those who were not there a careful reading of these addresses 
will give a clear idea of why Conservation is a vital problem 
in Hawaii. 
ABOUT RICE. 
Farmers’ Bulletin 417 of the U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ture is devoted to “Rice Culture” and ought to form a useful 
companion to the exhaustive report of Mr. Krauss, of the 
Hawaii Experiment Station, on rice investigations, lately 
