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lengths, trimmings, defective tops and the American Wood Preservers Associa- 



butts. tion to find that over 2C committee mem- 



bers answered the call to meet at 



L. G. Johnson, formerly Deputy State Chicago during the recent convention of 



Forester of California, has accepted the the American Railway Engineers' Asso- 

 position as yard manager with the Frazer ciation. There was a time, not long ago, 

 Lumber Company of Sacramento, Cali- when less than 20 attended the annual 

 fomia. Johnson is from Michigan Agri- meetings. The growth of the wood 

 cultural College, where he received his preserving industry and the rapidly 

 forestry training. G. M. Romans, State growing realization of the value of 

 Forester, has appointed Alex W. Dodge treating wood for commercial use is 

 to take the office made vacant by John- now concentrating interest on the wood 

 son's resignation. Dodge is a Califomian preservers' association and the important 

 and graduated from the Yale Forest work it is doing. At the Chicago meet- 

 School in 1912. ing committee reports were heard and 



arrangements completed for the exhibit 



It was most gratifying to President at the Forest Products Exposition and 



George E. Rex and the other officials of for the plan ot the next annual meeting. 



BOOK REVIEWS 



Logging, by Ralph Clement Bryant (John French & Co., Boston, $1.20). A story of the 



Wiley & Sons, $3.50). Mr. Bryant's series of poetry of rural life, the value of getting back 



articles in AMERICAN FORESTRY have attract- to Mother Nature and at the same time a 



ed so much attention that it is idle to state that cleverly woven romance, make this book enter- 



his book on the principles and general methods taining, instructive and restful, and a strong 



of logging in the United States is also heartily plea for the back-to-the-land movement, 



praised. It supplies a demand which for years 



asl teS brk?o?u Jta\re'rirsAS?Xft Trees in Winter, by Albert F. Blakeslee and 



has had a njuch wider sale and is of interest ^^^^^cLJSl 'Sy peopTe'deiveTo 



and undoubted value to every one connected , U4-** i t. c ■ 



with the logging industry. ^"°^ \^^* ^'""f ^9, ^^^f ^ ^°^ Y^^^^^ purposes, 



"'^ *= -^ where, how and when to plant them, and how 



Economic Woods of the United States, by J° ^^^^ ^^^ f 'I protect thern This book aims 



Prof. Samuel J. Record (John Wiley & Sons, J° ^^^^ ^J^^ g^"f ^^ know edge of trees and 



$1.25). The need of foresters, timber inspectors tree conditions. It is well i llustrated. 

 and wood users to be able to distinguish the 



woods with which they deal inspired this book. The Commuter's Garden, by W. B. Hayward 

 The number of such woods is so large and the (Crowell Co., New York, $1.00). This is a 

 difference between many of them so slight book for those who love gardens and take care 

 that mere familiarity with their general of them. In an interesting manner is given 

 appearance is not always sufficient for their information about care of lawns, flowers, 

 proper identification. This book supplies infor- plants, vines, shrubbery, hedges, and in fact 

 mation and illustrations which largely solve about everything in relation to a garden which 

 the problem of identification. may prove of value. There are also hints 

 about care of hens, cows and bees. It is good 



A Forest Idyl, by Temple Oliver (Sherman, reading. 



Fifteen small sawmills are cutting timber from the Powell national forest in southern Utah, more 

 than 100 miles from the nearest railroad. They are run by settlers during time that can be spared 

 from the crops, and supply local needs, since there is no opportunity to ship limber in or out. 



That a serious decline in the carrying capacity of vast areas of western grazing lands, due largely 

 to the fact that stockmen fail to give the range plants a chance to keep growing, can be remedied without 

 closing these areas to cattle and sheep, is the statement made by the Department of Agriculture in a 

 bulletin recently issued on range improvement. Excessive grazing in the spring before the forage 

 crop is mature, and such grazing continued year after year, says the department, are the main causes 

 of range deterioration. 



