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the only tree planting has been done by the company which is 
the least interested in the direct conservation of water flow, viz: 
the Oahu Railway & Land Company. It has, at a limited expense, 
made such a fine showing upon the top of the Waianae mountains 
that its example is worthy of emulation on a larger scale by the 
sugar plantations interested. 
THE GOVERNMENT FORESTRY. 
So far, the appropriations for government forestry have been 
insufficient to do anything more than create forest reserves and a 
skeleton of administration of the same. No appropriation has 
been provided for forest rangers, forest fencing or replanting, or 
for fighting fires. A skeleton is as essential to an advanced forest 
policy as it is to a man ; but in the one case as in the other, it is 
of no practical value, except for show purposes, without the con- 
junction with flesh and blood. The flesh and blood necessary to 
make our forest administration a living organization, are appro- 
priations to go ahead and do something with the efficient frame 
work already created. 
I think it would be eminently sound for this Association to for- 
mally pass resolutions, recommending the coming Legislature to 
make appropriations for these subjects, and for the members hereof 
to individually interview their several Senators and Representa- 
tives, urging their support to such annropriations. 
I submit herewith for consideration of this Association a form 
of resolution suggested : 
"Resolved, That in the opinion of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' 
Association the work of forest protection and extension is of the 
highest importance to the agricultural interests of this Territory ; 
"That in the opinion of this Association the time has arrived 
when liberal appropriations should be made for such protection 
and extension, and we hereby petition the Legislature to make 
liberal specific appropriations for forest fencing; for rangers to 
inspect and protect the forests from fire, depredation and trespass 
and for replanting with trees areas which have been heretofore 
denuded of forest." 
[Note: — This resolution was unanimously adopted by the Asso- 
ciation.] 
PAPER READ AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 
HAWAIIAN SUGAR PLANTERS' ASSOCIA- 
TION NOVEMBER n, 1908. 
By Ralph S. Hosmer, Superintendent of Forestry. 
Once again it is my privilege to address the members of this 
Association on the subject of Forestry in Hawaii. The topic is 
by no means a new one on the program of your annual meetings 
