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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



1 September 1917 Vol. 23 



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CONTENTS 



No. 285 



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The First Forest Regiment Goes Across — By Bristow 

 Adams 



Widespread Activity in Home Food Thrift — By Cliarles 

 Latlirop Pack 



Forest Fires Burn Much Timber 



War and the Food Problem — By Norman C. McLoud.. 

 With nineteen illustrations. 



What About Tree Surgery — By J. Horace McFarland.. 

 With thirteen illustrations. 



Value of Grazing Management on the Caribou National 



Forest— By C. H. Shattuck 



With four illustrations. 



The Mockingbird Family — By A. A. Allen . 

 With seven illustrations. 



Queen Anne's Lace; the Papaw Tree, and Self Heal — By 



R. W. Shiifeldt 



Witli eiglit illustrations. 



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Turning a Desert Into Fertile Soil — By Robert H. Moul- 



ton 549 



W ith lour illustrations. 



The Le Conte Oaks 551 



With one illustration. 



Forestry for Boys and Girls — By Bristow Adams 



Our Snakes a National Asset — By Gayne T. Norton.... 555 

 With seven illustrations. 



Forestry and the War — By Charles Lathrop Pack 559 



The Blue Mesa Forest Fire — By Henry L. Spencer 560 



With seven illustrations. 



Fighting the Pine Blister Rust 562 



Western Quails Being Exterminated — By R. W. Sliufeldt 565 

 Willi five illustrations. 



Canadian Department 567 



Extension of Lacey's Organization . 569 



Current Literature 570 



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SPECIAL OFFER TO MEMBERS ONLY 



One of the following described books will be presented free of charge to any member of the 

 American Forestry Association who secures ONE NEW subscribing member: 



No. 1 — Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs, 465 pages, 275 illustrations of trees, leaves, 

 blossorrs, fruits, seeds, area of growth, etc. 



No. 2— Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music, 262 pages, 38 colored and 15 other full- 

 page i'-lustrations. 



No 3 — Field Book of American Wild Flowers, 587 pages, 24 colored plates and 215 full-page 

 illustrations. 



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AMERICAN FORESTRY is published monthly by the American Forestry Association. 



Subscription price wfithout membership, three dollars per year; single copies, twenty-five cents. 



Entered as second-olMss mail matter December 24. 1909. at the Post-offlce .it Washington, under the Aet of March y. 1879 



Copyright. 1917, by the American Forestry Association 



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