The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-10-02

time, but now think see tho point
IN 1t. l suppose Mr.. Hosmer already at
that time was planning his forest re-
serve on Maui, and thought could not
40 much harm by planting fow thou
sand trees, no matter how I did it.
Meantime, again the time was there
FOR planting, and j had to start. So I
thought the best / could do was tn
make planting. plan myself for a
small part of the forest and try to do
II so that it might fit in general plan
iater. AS this plan was approved by
Tue manager, 1T 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
tatlon paid DC. apiece for common for
est plants In Norway, where / had
eleven years experience, the price is
about $3.50 thousand. Now, when
the cost of planting was Sc. apiece, and
one cent is allowed for the caring of
plant, we will have the total cost to
Be-, and still nothing is figured to tho
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 25 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 tho start
of each mature tree costs 80 cents.
which, with per cent interest and
interest g interest in 80 years, will be
about SLIP.
But so much is such a tree not worth
N m tIn
transportation necessarily has to be
expensive ON account of the gulches.
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 tho forest
can demand paying price. What il
too small for the sawmill, can DO sold
for mining timber or pulp. And then
al logging is done in winter time, and
all transportation by morse is on snow,
and at time when the farmers have
no other use for horses. Indeed. many
small farmer could not make q 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 little more practical way Of
working, we have succeeded in cutting
down the planting expenses to $17
thousand, and, by using the same meth
cd 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 So thousand.
hn
same commercial qualities as ohia, and
the Pride of India gives splendid
lumber for house finishing and furni-
tnre.
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 transplanting at least as well as
those paid cents piece for.
If anybody takes interest enough in
forestry to come up mere and see for
himself, he will be very welcome. Ka-
iiii is only three miles from the gov
mobile can easily go right up to my
house. The nursery il close to the house
and the trees concerned are about 1000
feet distant. How far our plants can
stand transportation will soon be tested.
And now ! only wish it understood
that what is done here, is nothing but
a very little start in forestry, and that
here Is any amount OF work to do for
the government foresters. But to
start anything they need money; they
need big heavy appropriation.
All my object by this writing In to
II 10 ah tk.t
heavy appropriation to forestry viii
pay in the long run.
W. HANNESTAD.