The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-01
PRACTICAL
FORESTRY
Mr.. Hannestad Submits
Views From His
Experience.

soon will he the time that the ieglsla-
4ure will lie asked for an aPproprla-
tion for forestry. it probably VIII be OF
some interest to the public to know
little about what has been done at IA
iIfiIi in that line 1t may help lit
tie to convince people that an appro-
priation to forestry does not mean
waste Of money.
It is well known. that H. ?. Baldwin
is a pioneer in forestry as well as IN
manv things else. but it has to be no
ticed that when Mr.. Baldwin started
his forest planting, his object only
was to provide for watershed, and,
as it never has been run on any larger
scale. the expenses could not cut any
figure in the account of plantation
as Maui Agricultural Co.
Now, when it probably will be plant
ing by millions, the question of econo-
nv will come to the front, and that is
what | intend to write about today.
About two years ago, when | was sent
up to Kailiili to look after the forest
and plant trees, the first thing that
puzzled me was. | could not make out
which system had been followed. |
made verbal report of it to the man
ager ami suggested to ask for assist
ance from the government forestry of
ficials to have the forest properly sur
veyed and a complete planting plan
made.
around and took a peep into the for
est. but what he thought about it | do
not know | received orders to start
planting at my own discretion. and
later, when / was about half through
| the planting for that year, there came
kind of advice, how to experiment
with planting trees different dis
tances.
This ] found little ridiculous at that
time, but now / think | see the point
, in it. | suppose Mr.. Hosmer already at
that time was planning his forest re-
serve on Maui, and thought | could not
do much harm by planting a few thou
sand trees, no matter how I did it.
Meantime, again the time was there
for planting, and ] had to start. So /
thought the best / could do was to
/ make a planting plan myself for a
small part of the forest and try to do
it so that it might fit in general plan
later. AS this plan was approved by
the manager, it is the plan we are
working on yet.
But then | soon found that the ex-
penses were such that it could not well
be called practical forestry. The plan
tation paid Be. apiece Tor common for
est plants. In Norway, where | had
oIo ba &c
about $50 a thousand. Now, when
the cost of planting was 90. apiece. and
{ one cent is allowed for the caring of
a plant. we will have the total cost to
&C., and still nothing is figured to the
salary of the one in charge of the
tree planting. ! suppose. that can be
spared to the account of watershed.
If we now reckon that - per cent of
the trees reach maturity and that ma
turity is reached in 80 years (Which
is too short time for most kinds of
trees) then we will find that the start
of each mature tree costs SO cents,
which. with 4 per cent interest and
interest s interest in 80 years, will be
about SLIP.
But so much is such tree not worth
on tie root in this forest, where all
transportation necessarily has to be
eA IitIiSlNe on account bI the GulcHtS.
If the income by the thinning of the
forest can balance the expenses, then
it IS all that can be expected.
1t is not here as in Norway. for in
stance. where every inch of the forest
can demand paying price. What is
too small for the sawmlll, can be sold
for mining timber or pulp. And then
all logging is done in winter time. and
all transportation by morse Is on snow,
and at q time when the farmers have
no other use for horses. Indeed, many
"A small farmer could not make a living
without it. All transportation by horse
is only to the nearest river or railroad.
Happily, though, such expenses for
planting. as mentioned above. have
turned out not to be necessary. BY
using a little more practical way of
working. we have succeeded in cutting
down the planting expenses to ST.
thousand, and by using the same meth
oil in the nursery as is used in other
parts of the world we have so far
succeeded in raising plants of two kinds
of useful trees Blue Gum and Pride of
India) at 81 a thousand
The Blue Gum tree has about the
same commercial qualities as ohia. and
the Pride of India gives a splendid
ture.
Besides these two we are experiment.
ing with number of trees. fit for
regular building material, but it is too
soon yet to come TO any calculation.
The plants raised have proved to
stand transpIanting at least as well as
those paid 5 cents piece for.
If anybody takes interest enough IN
forestry to come up mere and see for
himself, he will be very welcome Ka-
iliili is only three miles from the gov
eminent road at Makawao. An auto
mobile can easily go right up to my
house. The nursery is close to the house
and the trees concerned are about 1000
feet distant. How far our plants can
stand transportation wall soon be tested
And now ] only wish it understood
that what is done here. is nothing but
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