' iiiRARY 

 NEW YORK 

 tiOTANICAL 



American Forestry 



The Mag;aziue of the Ainerican Forestry Associaiiofi 



January 



CONTENTS 



1910 



COVER DESIGN— By Charles E. Cartwright. 



TRUNK EORA[ AND BARK OE JUNIPERUS MEGALOCARPA Cover llluslvatiou 



GROUP OE CHESTNUT TREES ON PRIESTEORD FARM, MARYLAND. .Fro/^/Z^/'/ac 



J'ERPETUA'ITNG Till': TIMBER RESOURCES OE THE SOUTH— By R. S. 



Kellogg ^ 



THE EORESTS OE LOUISIANA— By Erederick J. Grace 13 



THE CRISIS IN THE SOUTHERN FORESTS— By Henry E. Hardtner 21 



THE COMMERCIAL POSSIBILITIES OF SHALLOW STREAMS— By John L. 



Mathews 32 



TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING— PROGRAM 4t 



THE WEEKS BILL 4^ 



MAJESTIC WOODS— /'oc/;/ 44 



]<:ditorial— 



AiiKTk'an Forestry 



A Greater Union Tlirongli a (Jreater Soutli.. 



Inaugurating State Forests in the South 



National Forests as a Business Proposition. 

 The Weeks Forestry Bill 



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 45 

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 49 



A Cougressit>nal Investigation 



Secretary Ballinger on the Power-site Question. 



The Milk in the Cocoanut 



The Interest of "Tlie Interests" in Irrigation.. 



THE ^lONARCH OAK— Poem. 

 state WORK- 



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Massachusetts Forestry As.sociation 



Annual Meeting of Vermont Forestry Association. . 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Mr. Pinchofs Latest Shot 



Mr. Garfield Speaks at Last 



Another Bombshell for Ballinger. 



Billions of Treasure 



Coming Out into the Open 



Waning Opposition 



Lining Up for Conservation 



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Louisiana Forestry .Association. 

 State Interest in Watcn- powers. 



Regulating Construction of Dams 



The Fight for the Pnl)lie Domain 



"Let the Future Take Care of Itself 



Attacking the Forestry Policy 



Water-power Sites in tlie Grip of the Trust ■ 

 The National Kivers and Ilartiors Congress. . 



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RECENT PUBLICATIONS— 



Fourteenth Annual Report of the Forestry Com- 

 missioner of Minnessota for tlie Year 1908 



64 



Aids to Sliippers. Oelriehs & Co., New York 

 City 64 



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