would be 7 inches long and 5 inches in diameter.
The cylinder has an opening, five-eighths of an inch wide, running the
whole length of the cylinder and exactly opposite this opening a handle
is riveted. This handle is of half inch round iron, 18 inches long with
a cross bar on top. The rod is bent outward in the form of a bow, so
that in working, the branches of the young tree may not be injured. The
mode of working the transplanter is as follows: the cylinder is placed
on the ground with the tree in the center of the cylinder. This can be
done by allowing the stem of the young tree to pass through the slot in
the cylinder. Then, by means of the cross handle, the cylinder is turned
and pressed into the soil until the upper end is level with the surface
of the ground. Then, by lifting on the stem of the tree and the handle
of the transplanter at the same time, the tree is taken from the ground
with its roots undisturbed. Should the end of the tap root project below
the end of the cylinder, the thready end should be pinched off with the
thumb nail. By placing the lower end of the cylinder on the bottom of a
box and inserting a wedge-shaped piece of wood in the slot, the cylinder
is sprung open and can be withdrawn, leaving the young tree, with a
cylinder of earth around its roots, standing on the bottom of the box.
This operation can be repeated until the box is full of the young trees,
when it is carried to the field and the trees placed one at each hole.
By using a duplicate transplanter a cylinder of earth is removed from
the spot where the tree is to be placed, and the tree with its cylinder
of earth is placed in the round hole, which it exactly fits, the earth
being slightly compacted around the roots. The tree is thus planted with
the absolute certainty that the roots are in their natural position.

[Illustration: PAUOA VALLEY RICE FIELDS.]

[Illustration: PINEAPPLE PLANTATION.]

WEEDING.

The old adage, "a stitch in time saves nine," will bear its fullest
application in the care and weeding of a coffee estate. From the time
the land is first cleared, weeding should commence, and it is
astonishing how little it will cost if care is taken that no weed be
allowed to run to seed. The bulk of Hawaiian coffee lands is situated in
the forests where the land is covered with a dense undergrowth of ferns
and vines and there are no pernicious weeds to bother. But soon after
clearing, the seeds of weeds are dropped by t