Ramie (Boehmeria nivea) grows splendidly in this country and after being well established will yield 4 to 6 crops per annum. Whenever a machine is invented that will economically decorticate the Ramie fiber, its cultivation will become an important industry in this country. Ramie will grow and do well wherever the coffee tree will grow, and whenever the machine is available, the coffee planter will have a profitable industry, to go hand in hand with coffee and employ the slack time between the coffee picking seasons. Cocoa (Theobroma Cacao) is the tree that produces the fruit from which chocolate is made. It grows and bears well in moist humid districts, and many of the coffee planters are setting out numbers of the trees. There are many other economic plants that are well suited for culture in this country. The country is entering on a new era, and as the lands become settled and population increases, many small cultures will become possible, which will afford many persons the opportunity of making an easy living in a land of eternal summer. CHAPTER VI. DIGEST OF THE LAND ACT OF 1895. (With reference to unoccupied lands.) The Land Act of 1895, having for its special object the settlement and cultivation of the Government agricultural and pastoral land, vested the control and management of Public Lands in a Board of Three Commissioners, composed of the Minister of the Interior and two persons appointed and removable by the President, one of whom is designated the Agent of Public Lands; but excepting from the control of the Commissioners, town lots, landings, tracts reserved for Public purposes, etc., which remain under the control of the Minister of the Interior. For the purposes of the Act, the Republic of Hawaii is divided into Six Land Districts, as follows: 1st. Hilo and Puna on the Island of Hawaii. 2d. Hamakua and Kohala on the Island of Hawaii. 3rd. Kona and Kau on the Island of Hawaii. 4th. The Islands of Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe. 5th. The Island of Oahu. 6th. The Island of Kauai. The Commissioners are represented by a Sub-Agent in each District. Public Lands for the purposes of this Act are classified as follows: I. Agricultural Lands. First Class: Land suitable for the cultivation of Fruit, Coffee, Sugar or other perennial crops with or without irrigation. Second Class: Land suitable for the cultivation of annual crops only. Third Class: Wet lands such as kalo and rice lands. II. Pastoral Land. First Class: Land not in the description of Agricultural land but capable of carrying livestock the year through. Second Class: Land capable of carrying livestock only part of the year, or otherwise inferior to First Class Pastoral land. III. Pastoral Agricultural Land: Land adapted in part for pasturage and in part for cultivation. IV. Forest Land: Land producing forest trees but unsuitable for cultivation. V. Waste Land. Land not included in the other classes.