American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



Herman H. Chapman Frederick S. Underbill 



Ernest A. Sterling John E. Rhodes 



S. T. Dana S. N. Spring 



February CONTENTS 1914 



THE PANAMA CANAL AND THE LUMBER TRADE— By R. C. Bryant 81 



With ten illustrations. 



THE TORREY PINE— By Eloise Roorbach 92 



With eleven illustrations. 



FORESTRY ON THE COUNTRY ESTATE— By Warren H. Miller 101 



With eight illustrations. 

 IMPROVEMENT IN RANGE CONDITIONS— By A. F. Potter 110 



With seven illustrations. 

 WOODLOT FORESTRY— By R. Rosenbluth, M.F 118 



With twelve illustrations. 

 INITIATING A STATE FOREST POLICY IN KENTUCKY 135 



With five illustrations. 



EXHIBIT AT THE FOREST PRODUCTS EXPOSITION 141 



THE^SPRAG INDUSTRY OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA— By John L. Strobeck 142 



With one illustration. 



FORESTRY COMMITTEE REPORTS 145 



THE ANNUAL MEETING 146 



PRIZE FOR AN ESSAY ON FORESTRY 149 



HETCH HETCHY TIMBER AFFECTED 150 



FORESTRY LAW FOR VIRGINIA 151 



GOVERNOR GLYNN FOR FORESTRY 151 



A SOUTH CAROLINA FORESTRY LAW 152 



A SYLVAN MEMORIAL— By William R. Fisher 153 



FULL TITLE UNDER THE WEEKS ACT 153 



GOVERNMENT MAKES LARGEST OFFERING OF TIMBER 154 



WHAT A FORESTER SHOULD BE 154 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEW YORK STATE FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 155 



MASSACHUSETTS WANTS STATE FOREST 155 



ANNUAL REPORT ON YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 156 



THE FIRE FOOL— Poem— By A. J. Jackson . 156 



FOREST NOTES 157 



STATE NEWS . 159 



CURRENT LITERATURE 160 



AMERICAN FORESTRY is published monthly by the American Forestry Association. 

 Subscription price, two dollars per year; single copies, twenty cents. 



Entered as second-class mail matter December 24, 1909, at the Post-office at Washington, under the 



Act of March 3. 1879. 



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