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The terms of the cooperative agreement as it now stands are 
that the Hawaii Experiment Station shall furnish the agent in 
charge of the field work and shall undertake the chemical and 
other studies requiring laboratory equipment ; the Division of 
Forestry pays the salary of the agent and the other necessary 
expenses. For this purpose $1200 has been set apart from the 
appropriation of the Division. Each of the four rubber plantations 
at Nahiku has agreed to furnish one laborer for such time as may 
be needed, to work under the direction of the agent in charge but 
to be paid by the plantation. 
Early in September Dr. Wilcox, Mr. F. T. P. Waterhouse and 
I visited Nahiku and worked out on the ground, in conference 
with the managers of the four rubber plantations the program 
that has since been put in effect. The investigation will be con- 
tinued during the remainder of the present fiscal period, that is 
to June 30th, 1909. At its conclusion the results will be published 
either by the Experiment Station or by the Board of Agriculture 
and Forestry. 
HAWAIIAN IMPORTS. 
The following statistics of imported goods, which should be 
produced in the islands, gives ample support for the contention 
that the appointment of a local industrial agent to organize the 
sources of supply of the Territory and bring them, into touch with 
the market, is of great and immediate importance : 
Article 
Value 
Value 
Imported 
1906 
1007 
$ 56,464 
$ 87,536 
17,007 
18,865 
46,619 
41,690 
76,180 
66,394 
V egetables 
58,349 
34,79 x 
Eggs 
I2 ,995 
H,943 
21,431 
30,032 
Hams 
46,271 
10,663 
59,659 
Bacon 
n,73i 
Butter 
130,015 
31,512 
3M29 
Milk 
95,i52 
147,619 
Oranges 
41,034 
46,228 
Apples 
29,108 
39467 
28,600 
35<io9 
Rice 
449-046 
573,516 
Sauces and pickles in natural 
state and 
218,513 
Totals 
Si -377,873 $1,587,237 
