Evening bulletin., 1897-12-09
AS TO FORESTRY REPORT
Some Inaccuracies in Professor Max
wells Deductions Pointed Out.
Plantation Men are Themselves 10 Blame
for Diminished Water Supply Cattle
vs.. Coffee Planters.

port on Forestry to the Planters
Association in a Waikiki car tn.
other day and asked him what he
thought about it. The gentle
man, who by the way is an old
kamsaina who hos made a study
of forestry in relation to rainfall
and by virtue of his years of ex-
perience in connection with the
land department of this Govern
ment is we'll qualified to speak on
the subject, said:
81 agree with everything Pro
fessor Furnow says. He evident
ly knows what he is talking about
and both the government and the
planters will do we'll to heed his
advice. The planters made money
by bringing Professor Koebele
down here; they made a ten strike
when they brought Professor
Maxwell down here and they
would make more by bringing an
expert on forestry to look into
conditions here and tell Us Just
exactly what we must do to con
serve our forests. 1t pays always
in the long run to get the best ad-
vice possible. The Government
is doing it in the sewerage pro
blem for this city and it and the
planters together should secure
Professor Furnow or someone
equally as we'll posted to look at
our forests.
II notice that Professor Fur.
now differs from Professor Max
we'll in some of his deductions.
This is not the latter's fault, but
simply because some of his state
ments were based on information
wrongly supplied. AS is stated iu
the report Professor Maxwell does
not claim to be an expert on for
estry and he has undoubtedly re-
lied to certain extent on what he
has been told. Here is an instance
iu regard to the Awini lands in
which he states the rainfall of
the district for the thirteen
months from July 1, 1896, to July
81, 1897, to be: Awini forest
lands-63. 40 inches. Lower cleared
lands 1919 inches, aud follows
it up by saying that the signi-
ficsnce of these data lies less iD
the simple but notable difference
shown than in the indication that
were tn re no forest upon Awini
not only would the Awini rainfall
be reduced, but the rainfall be
low would be reduced st II more,
and then goes on to state that no
further lessening of forest lands
by clearing should be allowed in
Kohala district.
Now" observed the gentle.
man, ''see how a little thing will
put man or the wrong track. /
have known these Awini lands for
thirty years. Last year was an
exceptionally dry year and
should not have been selecte | |
as basis for any data about
rainfall in the district. But
it Professor Maxwell had gone
back to former years be would
have found the same ratio of
rainfall between the Awini forest
and Awini cleared lands prevail.
ing. 1t has always been nearly
double on the forest lands that
1t is on what he terms the cleared
lands. As matter of fact there
IS very little land cl~aroa in the
Awini district, 80 little indeed that
1t could not possibly affect the
rainfall. Observe how Professor
Furnow, who knows what he is
about, accounts for the
in rainfall. He saws:
Hence the topographic con-
dltlons alone would explain
the following general dis
tribution of rainfall: a smaller
in the low lands of the
eastern coast; an increasing
rainfall with increasing ele-
dry or rainless on the
western slope, except at higher
elevations, the rainfall here de-
pending upon moist western winds,
which are probably rare You
will notice that Professor Fur
now's reasoning is borne out by
the facts and it applies directly to
Awlnl and shows conclusively