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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. 
Division of Forestry. 
ROUTINE REPORT. 
September 16, 1908. 
Board of Commissioners of 
Agriculture and Forestry, 
Honolulu, Oahu. 
Gentlemen : — I beg to submit the regular report of the Division 
of Forestry for the past two months. 
During this period the special points of forest interest are the 
appointment by Governor Frear, on July 22nd, of the Territorial 
Conservation Commission of Hawaii, the inauguration of syste- 
matic tapping tests in the rubber plantations at Nahiku, the be- 
ginning of actual planting in the new experimental garden in 
Makiki Valley, and the distribution from the Government Nur- 
sery of a considerable number of plants of Mocha Coffee, an im- 
portant new introduction to the Territory. 
TERRITORIAL CONSERVATION COMMISSION. 
The Territorial Conservation Commission of Hawaii is one of 
the several state commissions that have been appointed at the 
suggestion of President Roosevelt following and as one of the 
results of, the conference of Governors held at Washington last 
May. The object of the Commission is to investigate the na- 
tural resources of the Territory and in cooperation with the Na- 
tional Conservation Commission and with the commissions of 
other states to assist in drawing up a plan for the rational use 
of the material resources of the nation as a whole. Governor 
Frear has appointed me as Chairman of the Commission. The 
other members are Messrs. W. O. Smith, Alonzo Gartley, "W. F. 
Dillingham and Jared G. Smith. 
COOPERATIVE RUBBER EXPERIMENT. 
Two years ago during an investigation by this Division of the 
planted forests on Kauai, there was brought to public attention 
the existence of two groves of rubber trees on the Island of 
Kauai. Arrangements were at once made to conduct experi- 
ments in tapping in these groves. As the Federal Experiment 
Station had a man available for the work, which this Division 
then did not, the investigation was turned over to that office. 
The results of the investigation have just been published as Bui- 
