American Forestry 



The Magazine of the A^nerican Forestry Association 



July 



CONTENTS 



1910 



COVER DESIGN— By Charles E. Cartwright. 



THE FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY Frontispiece 



THE NEW FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY— By Edwin A. Start. Illustra- 

 tions from Photographs 3^7 



THE WORK OF THE GOVERNMENT IN FOREST PRODUCTS— By Henry S. 

 Graves. Address delivered at the opening of the Forest Products Laboratory — 

 With portrait 40S 



SOME EXAMPLES OF TIMBER TESTS— Five Illustrations 409 



THE PAPER AND PULP INDUSTRY AND CONSERVATION— By B. R. Goggins. 



Address delivered at the opening of the Forest Products Laboratory 415 



TENNESSEE RIVER IMPROVEMENT AND SEDIMENTATION— By L. C. Glenn. 419 



EDITORIAL— 



What Is CJonservation ? 423 



The Reply of Professor Glenn 425 



The Proposed Morton Memorial 4.26 



NATIONAL FOREST WORK— 



Boundary Changes in National Forests 430 



The Fire Protection Work with the Railways . . . 431 



THE WEEKS BILL 43i 



The East and Irrigation 4'27 



Our Spendthrift Reputation 428 



Protection from the Canadian Side 42S 



District No. 1 431 



STATE WORK— 



The Louisiana Forest Law 432 



Forestry for Profit 432 



New Hampshire 432 



Private Forestry in Pennsylvania 433 



Washington 433 



EDUCATION— 



University of Wisconsin 433 



Michigan Agricultural College 434 



CURRENT LITERATURE— 



Monthly List for .Tuly, 1910 435 



Reports and Bulletins from Massachusetts 438 



LUMBERMEN AND LUMBER JOURNALS— 



The Lumberman's Attitude Toward Forestry 440 Chicago as a Lumber Market 444 



National Hardwood Lumber Association 442 JIaking the Most of the Log 444 



The Grading Conference 443 More Money for Fire Protection 444 



Washington State Agricultural College 434 



A Tree Manual for Kentucky 439 



A Fire Protection Handbook 439 



NEWS AND NOTES— 



Railroad Cooperation in Fire Protection 439 



Forests as Gatherers of Nitrogen 445 



Eucalyptus for Railway Ties 445 



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