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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



THE 3IAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



i November 1917 Vol. 23 



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CONTENTS 



No. 287 



Relief Fund for the Forestry Regiments 643 



Foresters in World's Largest Regiment 644 



With fifteen illustrations. 



American Foresters in Military Service. 

 Forestry at Bates College 



652 



655 



Tree's Long Journey on Truck 655 



With one illustration. 



The Pine — By Mabel Powers (Yah sen noli vvehs — One Who 



Tells the Stories) 656 



With one illustration. 



"Doctor Mountain" — By Mark Daniels. 

 Witli Seven Illustrations. 



-Bv -A. A. .\llen. 



657 

 .663 

 667 



The Nuthatches and the Chickadees- 



With eleven illustrations, 



A Trail Marker — By Lena B. Hunzicker. 

 With one illustration. 



A Quaint Bit of Sentiment— By Gayne T. K. Norton 668 



With one illustration. 



W. Shufeldt 669 



Flowers, Feathers and Fins — By R. 



With twelve illustrations. 



674 



Women Help to Fight Forest Fires 



With tliree photographs. 



Conservation in Autumn Leaves 675 



Tree Saved by a Governor — By Allen H. Wright 675 



With one illustration. 



Urban and Suburban Food Production — Its Past and its 

 Future — By Charles Lathrop Pack 676 



Forestry for Boys and Girls — "Shoes and Ships and Sealing 



Wax"— P.y Bristiiw Adams 678 



Children's Playgrounds in Parks and Forests — By Smith 



Riley 



With six illustrations. 



Hybrid Oaks — By George B. Sudworth. 

 With five illustrations. 



A Tree That Produces Soap 



With one illustration. 



680 



683 



686 



687 

 688 

 689 



Edible Fruits of Forest Trees 



Fighting the Pine Blister Disease 



Our Forest Resources and the War — By E. A. Sterling. . 



Editorial 691 



i^'orestry as a Profession for Young Men in the United 

 States. 



Bad Forest Fire Season 692 



How a Successful Suburban House is Built — Bv Rawson W. 



Haddon 693 



With four illustrations. 



Book Reviews 



Canadian Department. 

 Current Literature... 



695 

 697 

 699 



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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, 

 blossoms, 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 illustrations. 



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

 illustrations. 



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 including American Forestry Magazine, and enclose $3.00 for the 1917 fee — 



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$2.00 of above fee is for AMERICAN FORESTRY for One Year. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY is published monthly by the American Forestry Association. 



Subscription price without membership, three dollars per year; single copies, twenty-five cents. 



Entered as second-cI.Tss mail matter December 24, 1909. at the Post-offlce at Washington, under the Act of March 3. 1879 



Copyright. 1917, by the American Forestry Association 



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