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 



August CONTENTS 1914 



OUR VANISHING FOOD FISH— By Hon. J. Charles Linthicum 543 



With eighteen illustrations. 



NEW YORK CITY'S TREES 560 



With nine illustrations. 



COMBINE AGAINST FIRES 567 



THE LOOKOUT ON MOUNT LASSEN— By William C. Hodge 568 



With four illustrations. 



ARREST FIRE LAW VIOLATORS 571 



CRUISING IN CUBA— By E. V. Preston .572 



With five illustrations. 



MY HEROES— ( Poem )— By J. R. Simmons 576 



THE STORY OF HEMLOCK— By Hu Maxwell 577 



With nine illustrations. 



PESTS IN FOREST SEEDS .588 



\\'ith three illustrations. 



FORESTRY AT CHAUTAUQUA .591 



TROUT IN FOREST STREAMS.... 591 



PRIVATE TREE PLANTING 592 



A CHANCE FOR THE GAME— By Smith Riley .594 



With eight illustrations. 



THE MISSOURI OUSTER CASES 6n2 



USING BLIGHTED CHESTNUT 604 



THE CANADIAN DEPARTMENT- By Elwood Wilson 605 



EDITORIAL 607 



FOREST NOTES 609 



CURRENT LITERATURE 612 



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-ofRce at Washington, under the 



Act of March 3. 1879. 



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