American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



EDWIN A. START, Editor 



April 



CONTENTS 



1911 



30VER DESIGN— By Charles Cartwright. 



A VERMONT PLANTATION OF NORWAY SPRUCE 



STATE OWNERSHIP OF FORESTS-By Austin P. Hawes. 

 WOODNOTES (poem)— By R. W. Emerson 



.Frontispiece 

 191 



19G 



NEW IDEAS IN CONTROLLING FOREST FIRES-By Samuel J. Record 197 



With illustrations from photographs. 



THE PRUNING OP WHITE PINE— By F. B. Knapp 



MICROSCOPIC WORK ON THE STRUCTURE OP WOOD-By H. D Tiemann 



With illustrations from photographs. 

 THE FOREST AND THE FARM 



TYPICAL WHITE MOUNTAIN FOREST CONDITIONS 



^" iSs^hi?e"Vortf °*°'^''^'^' °' Societyfor the'protectlon of New 

 FOREST FIRE LEGISLATION PROPOSED BY WISCONSIN-By E. M. Griffith 

 SOME THINGS A FOREST RANGER SHOULD KNOW-By C. H. Shattuck. ....'. 

 EDITORIAL— 



Work Under the New Forest Law 820 



.\n Unfriendly Appointment 287 



The Report on the Lumber Industry 287 



CURRENT LITERATURE— 

 Reviews — 



Chambers: The Mississippi River 230 



KclloRg and Ziegler: Cost of Growing Timber 230 

 Tucker: Handbook of Conservation 231 



NATIONAL FOREST WORK— 



I'lans for Buying Kastcrn Forest Land 233 



STATE WORK— 



Keport of the Forest Commissioner of Maine 237 



.\ Ciift to Vermont 23& 



Commissioner Conklin's Report in I'ennsyl- 



204 



206 



214 



215 



219 



224 



The Secretaryship of the Interior 22S 



A Jiourbon of Bourbons 229 



The Crawford Notch in Danger 229 



.Monlhly List for Marcli ggj 



New Crazing Regulations. 



The (Jregon 

 Forests . . 



Con 



servalion Commis 



239 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Consumption of Tanning Materials 340 



The Southern Appahichian Rivers 240 



.\ Canadian View o i - 



.\ (lift to tlie Yale Forest School 24S 



onservation in Hawaii 343 



C. 



To Get In Under the New Lav 



Hardy Catalpas for Iowa 



Tublieations of the United States Geological 



249 



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