The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-03-14
TREE PLANTING By
QUARTER MILLION
REPORT OF FoREswnv BOARD
SHOWS THAT MUCK HAS
BEEN DONE.
Anon sataraayis Adyerllaer.l

(From Saturdays Adycrtiser,)
Tree planting in Hawaii is not alto.
gcther a matter Of government effort.
The biennial report issued by the board
Of commissioners Of agriculture and
forestry, presented in the legislature
yesterday, shows that during last year,
725oOO trees were set out in tho Ter.
ritory.
Commenting on this fact the report
says: "This proves that the leading
corporations are awake to the desirable
ity of tree planting, but It can also
well be used as an argument for more
work of like character. There is much
need in Hawaii for the planting Of for.
est of commercial character. There is
also need for the better protection of
the native forest and for the extension
of the algaroba forest.
"In having this tree, Hawaii is in
deed fortunate, but there are large
areas of land on each island which are
now almost barren, or at any rate of
AuM NdAuet thab OukhS W uc BIOWAhb
algaroba. The algaroba can be prop
agated very easily and when once es-
tablished win take care Of itself. Not
only win it pay corporations to assist
its spread; it win bring them a large
return on the comparatively small
amount of money that needs to be in.
vested to help this tree get started. =
Division Of Forestry.
The activities of the division Of for.
estry can be divided into two parts
First, the creation and administration
of forest reserves, for the most part
areas of native Hawaiian forest Gov
ering important watersheds that it is
advisable be kept intact for the pro-
! tection of the supplies of water needed
for irrigation, power development or
domestic uses. Second, the extension
of a forest cover, over areas of waste
or barren lands, or in sections that can
be used to better advantage for grow
ing trees than for any other purpose.
During 1909 four new forest reserves
were set apart by proclamation Of the
Governor, aggregating a total of 10l,-
GA acres, of which 1924 acres, or
eighty-two per cent, are ON government
set apart, all government land, aggre-
eating 29,lS2 acres. Altogether there
are now established forest reserves in
Hawaii with a total area OF 575, 1854
acres, of which sixty-seven per cent
is government land.
Need More Money.
One Of the pressing needs Of the
board is for more money for the pub
LEGATION of bulletins giving the results
of the various Investigations carried
out The manuscript for four such re-
ports now lies in the safe because of
/ lack of funds and all of them are bulle-
tins that when published will DO of
direct practical assistance to the PEG
pie of the Territory. The commission
ers make recommendations that this
side of the work should be better pro
vided for in the future.
They report: 4Of the needs of the
division of forestry in general for the
future, the special demand is for sui,
fcient money adequately to protect the
natice forest in existing forest reserves
through the fencing of forest reserve
boundaries, the protection of the forest
from trespass by means of forest ran.
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forest fire, should that need unfor-
tunately arise. Next, provision ought
| to be made for the extension of fores.
planting by the government in open
places in the forest reserves and Oh
| other government land which ought t.
be brought under forest cover. il
is the established policy of the board
to start and maintain sub-nurseries fol-
the distribution of trees on each of the
main islands. Provision should be made
for this work and also for the intro.
duction and trial of plants and shrubs
new to the Territory, and for the con
tinuation of the investigations of the
botanist, including the care of the ma
terial collected by him in an enlarged
herbarium.
Division of Entomology.
The work in this department is to
control the introduction of insects into
the Territory, the devising and appli-
cation of methods to check the spread
and reduce the damage done by injuri.
GUS insects
Albert Koebele, who is consulting
entomologist, has been absent from
the Territory during the last two years
and is making a collection of the horn
fly and its parasites in Europe, with
the idea of securing some means Of
checking this cattle pest.
During 1910 the greater part of the
work of the division consisted in in
spection. The inspection list show
about eighteen and one-half per cent
increase in packages and forty-two and
one-half per cent increase in different
marks or lots received. The total mum
Der of packages inspected in 1910 wai
2l0,059, of which number some 427
packages were destroyed on account Of
pests or disease or prohibition of entry
into the Territory. The appearance OF
new pest, the Mediterranean fruit
fly, has caused the passage of a new
REGULATION which prohibits the ship
ment Of soft-meated fruits to the Other
islands of the Territory.
A rule has been passed by the board
prohibiting the entry into the Terri
tory of banana fruit and plants from
Central America and other sections
where exists a disease which has killed
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