1973 
where it is pressed cold and is imported at great expense. It is hoped 
that within ten years Hawaii will he supplying its own oil for the cure 
of this disease, from which the sting of dread and fear has been removed 
hy the application of modern science. 
"In starting the chaulmoogra plantation, the ground, where feasible, 
was first prepared by plowing and harrowing, and the wisdom of this, 
treatment has been proved; for on such areas the chaulmoogra trees have 
made far better growth than where they were merely set out in holes dug 
in the guava and lantana brush. The first plantings were made in Decem- 
ber, 1921, with 880 trees of Hydnoearpus anthelminthica, and have been added 
to until a total of 2,390 trees of this species are now included in the 
plantation. The balance is composed of 850 trees of Taraktogenos kurzii and 
80 of Hydnoearpus cattanea. In addition to these, 383 trees of the false 
Chaulmoogra (Gynoeardia odorata), which yields an oil different from chaul- 
moogra oil both in its physical characters and in its chemical composi- 
tion, were planted on neighboring areas. The usual spacing adopted for 
the trees was SO by £0 feet apart, but on some of the slopes a spacing 
as close as 15 feet was used." 
