The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-30
INTERESTS OF
AGRICUL TURISTS
MANY MATTERS DISCUSSED BY
THE TERRITORIAL BOARD OF
AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY.

anu rOlSSJly hSlu al Important meet
ing yesterday afternoon in the throne
room of the Capitol building, at which
a number of important matters were
discussed, and some interesting reports
received from different branches of the
department
A reply was received from the Ha-
waiian Planters Association to a re-
quest of the board to nave the Asso-
cations entomologist f. Muir, who is
at present en- route from Java to New
Guinea in search of some of the ma
tural enemies of the borer beetle go to
China or India to look for some para
site or insect which might destroy the
destructive melon fly The Planters
Association was not in favor of taxi
ing Mr.. Muir from his present mission
in search of the borer's enemy to have
him look after melon pest antidotes.
AN opinion was also received form
Attorney General Peters to the effect
that the Board Of Agriculture and For
estry would not be justified by law in
using money appropriated to it's gem
eral fund by the Legislature, to as
sist in work of the United States Agri-
cultural Experiment Station. Former
Legislatures have made appropriations
for this purpose, but the last Legisla-
ture failed to do so, on Governor Car
ter's refusal to recommend such action.
Director Jared Smith, of the Expert
ment Station thereupon asked the
Board for aid from it's general appro-
priation, but this the Attorney General
refused to approve The matters which
Director Smith wanted assistance for
especially, and which Governor Carter
refused to recommend, were tobacco
experiments, rice growing experiments,
and methods of handling and shipping
fruits to the mainland
Alexander Craw, the entomologist.
reported at length on the experiments
with and distribution of the Arizona
horn fly parasites. The results attain
ed have been very encouraging, ac-
cording to the report and the work OF
propagating the parasite has been 60
ing on rapidly at the King street sta
: ton.
Veterinarian Norgaard and Entomo-
logist Jacob Kotinsky were granted
permission to go to the American Su-
gar Company's ranch, on Molokai, to-
day in company with Prof. Froggatt of
Australia, who is going there to study
the sheep pests and diseases. Mr..
Kotinsky takes with him a colony of
the Arizona horn fly parasite which
he will distribute on the island.
Entomologist Craw reported on the
discovery of a dangerous rice moth in
a consignment of rice coming in on the
Mongolia recently and the method by
which it is being fumigated at the U.
S. fumigation plant.
Forester Hosmer reported that the
following district forester and fire war
dens had resigned: A. NJ. Novel;, Wal
alua, Oahu; Eric H. Edwards, South
Kona, Hawaii; David Forbes, Hama
kua, Hawaii; E. e. Conant, South Ko-
hala, Hawaii. The following were ap-
pointed to fill the vacancies: District
forester, Waialua, Oahu, w. w. Good
ale; district fire warden, Waialua,
Oahu, w. M. Templeton, manager oil
the Wahiawa Water Company at Wa
hiawa; district forester and district
fire warden, South Kona, Hawaii, R.
Won L. Domkowitz; district forester
South Kohala, Hawaii, A. w. Carter;
district fire warden, South Kohala,
Hawaii and district fire warden for
the western part of the District of Ha-
makua, August Ahrens.
The committee on Forestry recon-
mended the approval of a forest re-
serve on Maui, to be known as the
Makawao Forest Reserve, adjoining
the Koolau Forest Reserve.
Forester Hosmer's report was ex-
haustive, giving a detailed description
of the lands on which the reserves are
rac0ce:rs:G& OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
great an amount for Great Britain to
pay" said Lord Strathcona, "for the
bring. And Canada could we'll afford
it. Canada is exceedingly prosperous,
and it's prosperity will not be evanes-
cent. 1t will last and grow. Great
as has been the prosperity of the Do
minion in the past decade, the rate of
progress will be still more rapid in the
future. See how rapidly the United
States has increased in population and
in industrial progress during the last
quarter of a century. Progress in
Canada will be comparatively more
rapid than in the United States,
Things move altogether more quickly
in the twentieth century than in the
later part of the nineteenth. Canada
is a country with a magnificent future.
It is only just beginning to recognize
its provincial greatness"
RELIEVE your MIND.