Excerpt from The Sugar-Cane Insects of Hawaii The acreage devoted to sugar-cane culture in the southern United States has increased rapidly in recent years. Some of the cotton lands, abandoned because of the depredations of the cotton boll weevil, are being planted to cane. New lands are being planted to the crop in the Rio Grande valley and in the reclaimed areas in the lower Mississippi valley. It is stated that quite an area of land in process of reclamation in the State of Florida will be planted to sugar cane. It is desirable that the experience obtained through investigations of insects injurious to sugar cane in the Hawaiian Islands be placed at the disposal of the planters in our Southern States in order that the sugar industry in those States may receive practical benefit therefrom. The Hawaiian planters are well provided with expert advice and have at hand numerous reports dealing with the subject, which latter, unfortunately, are not available for general distribution. This report is written primarily, therefore, for the information of our mainland planters. Acknowledgment should be made of the courtesies extended to the writer by the members of the entomological staff of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experiment Station during his return visit to the Hawaiian Islands in March and April, 1909. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.