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CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER, 1909 



COVER DESIGN— By Charles E. Cartwright. 



FALLS OF ELK CREEK, NEAR CRANBERRY, N. C Frontispiece 



FORESTRY IN JAPAN— By J. Barrington Moore 727 



THE SOUTH'S CONCERN IN THE APPALACHIAN PROJECT AND HOW 

 TO MAKE ITS INFLUENCE FELT— By John H. Finney 741 



A BEGINNER IN FORESTRY— By Anne Warner (Paper 6) 75J 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT, DYNAMIC GEOGRAPHER— By Frank Buffington 

 Vrooman 754 



STORIES TOLD IN RANGER CAMPS (No. i)— By Charles Howard Shinn 763 



EDITORIAL— 



The National Conservation Association 767 



Prevention of Timber Waste 7*)7 



Who Is Able to Stand Before Envy? 768 



Labor for Public Improvements 769 



Trouble in Illinois for tlie Deep-waterways 

 Movement 770 



ALL THINGS DECAY-By Herrick 



The Cost of Waterways Improvement 771 



The "Expense" of Conservation 77-T 



Let the Reclamation Service SiifTer No Harm.. 77 1 



Rally for the Appalachian Bill 775 



The Glavis Case 777 



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NEWS AND NOTES— 



Waterways and the National Defense 779 



The Swiss Water-power Legislation 779 



Economical Water Supply 779 



Secretary Ballinger's Recommendations 780 



The Reclamation Outlook 780 



Mr. Pinchot at the New Orleans Meeting 781 



Southern Forestry and Conservation 782 



Republican Club for Conservation 783 



Forestry Chairman, Federation of Women's Clubs. 783 



The Corpus Christi Inland Waterways Meeting.. 783 



Meeting of American Mechanical Engineers 783 



The Wonder of It All '83 



Good Roads Propaganda "84 



The Biltmore School Peripatetic 784 



Hurricane Destruction on the Mississippi Coast.. 784 



Mr. Herbert A. Smith at Brattleboro 7SJ 



Commercial Importance of New Hampshire 



Forests 78.'> 



Louisiana Forestry Association 785 



Practical Work for Minnesota Forestry Students. 78.' 



Fighting Moths with Searchlights and Fans 786 



Forester Gaskill at Work 786 



Maine Forestry Law a Success 786 



Germans Planting Forests in China 787 



Forester Hawes Utters a Warning 787 



To Merge Nova Scotia Timber Lands 787 



Preventing Adirondack Forest Fires 788 



President Hill for Conservation 788 



Forestry on Private Estates 788 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS- 



Fourteenth Annual Report, Forestry Commis- 

 sioner, Minnesota "89 



Andaman Marble- wood '^89 



National Hickory Association Circular 780 



Practical Farm Drainage "89 



Transactions Royal Scottish Arborlcultnral So- 



790 



780 



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Recent Books on Forestry. 



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