American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestri; 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 



April CONTENTS 1914 



WOOD VERSUS SOME OF ITS SUBSTITUTES— By R. C. Bryant 239 



With five illustrations. 

 HARDWOOD FORESTS OF SOUTH AMERICA— By H. G. Cutler 248 



With eleven illustrations. 



WARNINGS AGAINST FOREST FIRES 260 



FORESTRY ON THE COUNTRY ESTATE— By Warren H. Miller 261 



With six illustrations. 



A MAN TO A TREE (POEM)— By Gertrude Cornwell Hopkins 267 



ONE VIEW OF THE FOREST RANGER— By Paul G. Redington 268 



With two illustrations. 

 PROGRESS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA— By Overton Westfeldt Price 273 



With four illustrations. 

 DEDICATION OF A FORESTRY BUILDING 279 



With one illustration. 

 A NEW TYPE OF FIRE LINE— By M. A. Benedict 281 



With six illustrations. 

 PLANTING AND SEEDING OF WOODLOTS— By George Latta Barrus 287 



With eleven illustrations. 

 THE HARDWOODS OF THE SPESSARTS— By F. F. Moon 298 



With three illustrations. 



SALT LAKE PRESERVES TIMBERS 302 



CARE OF SHADE TREES 302 



MARYLAND CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION 303 



GEORGE W. VANDERBILT DEAD 303 



HOW TO SAVE s$100,000,000 A YEAR 304 



A NEW SOAP MATERIAL 306 



WHITE PINE GROWING PROFITABLE 306 



BEST SEED YEAR FOR LONGLEAF PINE 307 



WINTER FOREvST FIRES 308 



THE FOREST RANGER (A POEM)— By P. C. Smith 308 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EXHIBIT 309 



FOREST NOTES 309 



BOOK REVIEWS 311 



STATE NEWS 312 



CURRENT LITER.A.TURE 314 



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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