The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-12-06
FORESTRY NEEDS
DISCUSSED by
PLANTERS
Chairman Horner, of Committee,
Makes His Report and
Recommendations.
VISIT THE WAIPIo STATION
Fungus Disease Killing Off the
Eucalyptus Trees on
TantaluS.

(From Thursday AdverJlsef)
Only morning session was held by
the members Of the Hawaiian Sugar
Planters Association which met in
their headquarters in the Judd building
Yesterday, under the leadership of Pres.
ident J. =. Cooke. But the session was
an exceedingly busy one and as soon as
business was completed there was
rush for the squadron of automobiles
which was to carry them TO the great
experiment station at Waipio, which
was inspected with the greatest inter.
est by all.
The morning session was devoted al
most entirely to questions of forestry,
the planters realizing that in the pre-
servation of the forests lies the con.
servation of the water supply in the
mountains.
A. Honer, chairman of the commit
tee on forestry, in his report to the as
ISOLATION made the following recon-
mendation, which will be acted upon,
the cooperation between the Territory
and associations men being promised:
'Your committee recommend that
this association appoint a special com.
mittee to confer with the Governor and
with the board of agriculture and for
estry with the object in view of formu
lating a suitable plan or bill to be pre-
scented to the coming legislature, so that
more of the monies received from water
licenses may be made available for the
systematic extension and protection of
the forests of the Territory. At pres.
emit, almost, if not quite all, of the
monies received from the above source
Int Ahn nd
but little is used for either the extern
sion or the preservation of the forests
as it should be.
"The writer has had an interview
with the Governor upon this matter and
wishes to state that he favors most
strongly the idea of special committee
being appointed by the II. s. P. A: to
confer with him and with the board Of
agriculture and forestry, as suggested
abOve.'
Fatal Tree Disease.
The question which particularly in.
terested the meeting was a report by
Harold l.. Lyon, pathologist of the
planters experiment station, in regard
to a strange fungus disease which he
stated is destroying the eucalyptus
trees on Tantalus and elsewhere in the
Islands. Doctor Lyon presented sew
eral exhibits in illustration of his re-
port. He also spoke briefly on the
striped disease which has appeared in
cane.
They might have noticed, DR.. Lyon
said in opening, the dead patches in
the Tantalus forest. "These trees
are dead from the recent drought, -
they might have said on first sight.
But there was no drought in Manoa,
where irrigated trees on the Long es.
tate were also dying. Besides the
eucalyptus, the black waffle and cedar
trees on Tantalus were dying. AS to
the black waffle, old age might account
for it. Cockroaches attacking the bark
and twigs of some of the trees had
killed them. A great many young
trees at the experiment station had
died from this cause.
The eucalyptus trees on Tantalus
were not dying from either of these
causes, but from fungus and more
of the eucalyptus globulus than the
eucalyptus robusta were being at.
tackled. As the robusta, or swamp
gum, favors moist land this fact indi,
Gates that another cause than drought
is the cause. The disease usually be
gins at the xtremities-sOmetime iso
lated branches, and sometimes one side
of tree will be infected and not the
other. DIR. Lyon showed n withered
branch from Manoa tree. If the
disease starts at the top it will work
its way down until it enters the trunk
''Folly to Go on Planting"
Dr. Lyon could not say it would bt
folly to go on planting eucalyptus trees
If they were going to plant them il
large groves, they would have to pay
more attention to them. There wert
other trees that would serve their pur
poses better for forest cover. At al
events they should not be planted il
pure culture-that is, exclusively on
large scale.
In answer to +. Faxon Bishop, tn
speaker said the disease was not tn
same as the dying bark disease o
rubber and cacao trees, disease tina
was causing n great deal Of damage 4
the West Indies,
"What is the remedyp asked w.
Smith.
DIR, Lyon said the only remedy wa
to clean out the dead trees as fast a
possible, If they wished TO save 70,
trees they might do II by pruning bac
the branches and painting over IN
wound. In a large forest such trea
ment was impraeticable,
In reply 10 a question hy Mr. Smit
n the disease spread from conieTs d
infection, DR. Lyon said the infectio
Was rather scattered ono tree mB
be attacked at the top, another AZ N
bottom, n the vital parts were Nh
afeeted the tree would ie quickly
Nj Rlshop asked " the disease ha
appeared on the other Islands also. M
was anything Ike tho chestnut tr.
disease 10 which thr lecturer Tfpl,
that ii bad hpen found 0H Mani m
Investigation hai NOT hrm maip ,
anY of the either .shnis llf hoped
would npi pf0Yr Ha iesim.tIfe as q
shefluui iTfe disease ou ilr m6iulau
fur Mhlrh bother federal uuf sta
apihorlilor had been nhf ia ful
FemfdY n looked ba lftle thr.iu.
groves 8efe aosHfl