The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-07-13
FOR A FORESTRY BUREAU
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT PLANS
ONE.
VIII be Conducted along the General
Lines Followed in Germany-To Raise
Tobacco in Hawaii.

NEW YORK, June 29.-Secretary
Hitchcock announced after the Cabinet
meeting, says a Washington dispatch
to the Tribune, that he is preparing to
organize a forestry bureau in the In
terror Department to carry out an ex-
tensive system of demonstration, some
what on the plan successfully pursued
in Germany. 1t was too early to go into
details, he said, but the President and
his colleagues were satisfied with the
practicability of the scheme and i'm
pressed with the results which could
be achieved in restoring the rapidly dis
appearing woodlands of the country.
Secretary Wilson reported on the work
of his department at the Cabinet meet
ing likewise. Afterward he said: II told
my associates what we are doing Now,
in tobacco, this country sells $50 900, 900
worth of tobacco, and buys $4,000, 600
worth of high priced varieties We
have to pay $5,OO0,OOO for Sumatra wrap
pers. Now, our department is teaching
the American people how to produce
that in the United States We took the
gold medal at the Paris Exposition for
the finest Sumatra tobacco. We have
been paying SS,O00000 for filler tobacco,
mostly Cuban We are conducting ex-
periments now i'm this line of produc-
ton with the result that we hope to
see most of the filler tobacco produced
in the United States. For some of the
very finest varieties we may have to
go to the tropics, to Porto Rico, Hawaii
or the Philippines, but it will be only a
question of time when the United States
will produce all the tobacco it wants
We have been importing wheats to
improve our own crops in the United
States. American-mad macaroni has
been thought inferior to the imported,
and the reason for this was that we did
not have suitable macaroni wheats. We
have corrected this, so that 100 900 bush
els Will be grown in this country this
year solely for the macaroni mills. 1t
will be only few years before we make
all our own macaroni.
The Agricultural Department is now
sending man to the rice-g growing
countries of the East. A scientist who
has already returned from Japan has
brought specimens of rice so much
more suitable for the Gulf Coast than
what we formerly had that we are now
producing most of the rice that we
need, and shall soon produce all that
we use. The second quality, or broken
rice we are already sending to Porto
Rico.
There will be over forty beet sugar
factories in operation this year. They
have thrown out the imported machin-
cry, both in field and factory, and are
using American inventions that are so
much superior that we expect a great
development in the business. The sugar
men have borrowed an idea from the oil
companies At one of the Oldest fac
tories in the United States, in Utah,
they have built three mills around the
factory one of them twenty-thre miles
away, from which they run the juice
from the factories in pipes to the CEN
trail station. Eastern capital is rapidly
developing the beet sugar industry in
the arid States through irrigation. In
the Arkansas valley for instance, ST.
100000 factories have been put up"