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CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1909 



COVER DESIGN— By Charles E. Cartwright. 



TYPICAL ORCHARD HOME IN THE INLAND EMPIRE Frovtispiecc 



IRRIGATION IN THE INLAND EMPIRE 385 



A FOREST CONFERENCE IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS 391 



THE BIG BANYAN OF KEY WEST, FLA.— By Mrs. R. A. Ellis 393 



A FIELD FOR INVENTIVE GENIUS— By Mrs. L^'dia Adams-Williams 394 



WORK ON A NATIONAL FOREST— No. 11, by Charles Howard Shinn 397 



PRACTICAL FOREST WORK FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS IN NEBRASKA.. 402 



FORESTRY IN MASSACHUSETTS— By F. W. Rane 405 



NATURAL TAXATION OF TIMBERED MINING LAND— By Robt. B. Brinsmade.. 408 



WATER CIRCULATION AND ITS CONTROL— By Bailey WiKis 413 



CHEMISTRY AND CONSERVATION 42-' 



THE PRESIDENT FOR CONSERVATION 426 



ORGANIZATIONS FAVORING APPALACHIAN NATIONAL FORESTS 427 



EDITORIAL— 



Edward Everett Hale 



Forestry a Germ of the Con.servation Movement. 



Let Us Hear from the Schools 



Legislative News Bureau for Consbrv.\tion. . . 

 The Point of View 



430 Water-power Grahs in Wiscousin 432 



430 The National Irrigation Congress 434 



431 President Hill on Conservation 435 



431 Destruction of Fish 437 



431 Resiionsiliility for Forests 43S 



BACK NUMBERS WANTED 438 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Government to Study Eucalyptus Planting 430 



Timber Seasoning and Wood Preservation 430 



Forest Conservation in Germany and the United 



States 439 



Mr. Weyerhaeuser on Forest Taxation 44n 



Taxing a Forest Grant 440 



Government Encoura.: ing Willow Culture 441 



Seasoning Eucalyptus Poles 441 



Forest Resources of South America 442 



Over-cutting of Connecticut's Forests 442 



Fire Waste Through Carelessness 443 



Needless Work Is W'aste 443 



Two Projects in Eastern Oregon 44! 



Governors Expected at Irrigation Congress 444 



Forestry the Schools 444 



Mr. I'in( on Foresti'y in Arkansas 44 1 



The Moral Aspect of Forestry 444 



Saving the Bis Trees 44.5 



A New Pest 44.j 



Micl i'-an Forest Fires 44" 



Pursuing Timber Thieves in Michigan 44."p 



Forest Work in Virginia 44."i 



Afforestation by Newark 41f> 



Forestry Work in Vermont 44(1 



A Ci air of Silviculture at Yale 44G 



Annual Meeting of Connecticut Forestry Associ- 

 ation 416 



Dry Farming 447 



Natural Resources to Produce Revenue 447 



Face to Face with a Water-power Trust . . . 447 



The Water-power Monopoly 447 



Water-power Sites 44S 



A Conservation Commission for Iowa 440 



Favors a Conservation Commission for Canada.. 440 



Conservation of Daylight 440 



Forest Fires in Maine 440 



Bark Affects Penetration of Wood Preservatives 440 



Government Studying Yellow I'ine 4.10 



Magazines Pushing Conservation 450 



Vanishing Forest Giants 450 



Wood-waste Distillation 450 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS 4.=-0 



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