The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-22
LUNCHEON
and WORK
Continued from Page One.)

| to make economic use OF the land, CT
fence posts, etc.
smith said that he had had some
thing to do with this, and there ha
been considera bic difficulty.
Hosmer said that in this case it ha
been understood that rubber, Manil
Ihemp and other such plants whicl
needed forest cover, could be plante
on the land by the plantation.
Smith said the difficulty was to de
termine what would be the proper eco
nomic use of the land.
Hosmer replied that the establish
ment of outing house sites in limited
numbers, as was done in the Waiana'
reserve, and the planting of Other
plants was allowed
| Smith said that he knew of many
cases in which plantations were watch
ing the Maui forest reserve matter
with interest to see how it worked, be-
fore they ventured to surrender any
Hand 1t was therefore well to have a
full and clear understanding of the
matter
Hosmer said that if the owner wished
to reserve other rights, when he set
aside his land, there would be no OBJ
jections to it. These points could be
| covered in the contracts.
| Smith said that another difficulty
encountered was that the Governor
could, with the consent of the Land
| Commissioner, take out any portion of
| the government forest land. The OBJ
| lection had been made that 1t was not
| fair that the government could with
draw land from it's own reservations
while the private concerns, which set
side land could not do so
| Hosmer answered that there could
be no impropriety in a Plantations
putting similar provision in it's con,
tracts. There was one plantation on
Oahu which was considering a surren-
der of land but reserved the right to
take back such portions as it might
need for homesteads or cultivation
F. S. Dodge said that while the
Bishop Estate had not entered into any
contracts with the government it had
created forest reserves on it's own
hook which amounted to about $4,000
to $4,000 acres.
T. Give Davies said that he under
stood that IS acres of blue gum at
Paauhau, planted Is years ago, yielded
300 cords per annum. He wanted to
know how long this could be kept up.
David Haughs answered that with
a little replanting this could be kept
up Indefinitely.
c. NJ. Cooke asked if 1t was the idea
to ask the Legislature to appropriate
for the planting of trees and estab-,
fishing nurseries, or just to fence
tracts, and let the trees come up by
themselves.
Hosmer said that there was but lit
tie chance of getting enough appro- !
priation to set out trees, but money !
should be appropriated for a ranger i
system and fencing. He also recon- |
mended that lumber trees be planted |
on the high mountain reserves, as, for |
instance Ha1eakala, which would later |
on be valuable as source of lumber. |
A matter of singular Importance was
the suggestion by John A. Scott, man |
ager of the Hilo Sugar Co., that the |
plantations form q corporation and es- |
tahlish a central distillery for the man |
ufacture of denatured alcohol This |
followed the reading of an interesting |
paper by J. n. S. Williams on the sub |
ject, wherein he showed that the plan |
tations would derive a splendid income |
from the sale of the molasses for that |
purpose. E. d. Tenney said he favored |,
incorporating the association for the |
purpose suggested by Mr.. Scott.
John L. Moir, one of the most popu, |
lar managers on the Island of Hawaii |
said they might also go into other |
business and do up the storekeepsrA |
who are doing them every day." and |
he added that they might also start |
newspaper. 1t is unnecessary to say |
that Mr.. Moir dearly loves joke and |
his colleagues Watt and Horner delight
in playing one
In the opinion of Mr.. Tenney, Pearl
City is the most desirable point on this
island for a distillery. The old subject |
of the planters having their own steam
er was brought up as a side issue.
The afternoon session began at the
Experiment Station shortly after two
O'Clock, a half hour later than sched-
ule, the delay being caused by the
luncheon at the Young.
A pleasant half hour was spent in
the Division of Entomology where
Prof. Perkins and the others of that
division were present to explain by OBJ
ject lessons, the different cane pests
and their enemies. A number of diff
ferent species of lantana bugs were
shown, some of them good and others
bad for the country but all of them
dangerous to the lantana. Under mi
croscopes We're some of the latest Fiji
enemies to the leaf hopper and in |
case were a number of young hoppers
with live Fijian enemies at work. This
enemy has the appearance OF an ant.
1t siezes the hopper and inf1icts a
sting, laying its eggs in the puncture
from which the hopper ultimately dies
The eggs are then consumed by anoth-I
ar egg eating insect so that practically
Two birds are killed with one stone"
The collection of bugs in this room
is most interesting one as it COM
prises all of the enemies to cane so far
found here and the parasites which de-
stroy those enemies.
EXPERIMENTS.
Mr.. Tenney then announced when the
party had got together. that Mr.. Eek
art would conduct them through the