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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Jones, Arthur F. Lumber manufacturing ac- 

 counts. 112 p. N. Y., The Ronald 

 press CO., 1914. 



National fire protective association. Lumber 

 and lumber drying, with notes on steam 

 jets; suggestions for improvement of the 

 fire hazards, prepared by the Committee 

 on manufacturing risks and special haz- 

 ards. 18 p. Boston, Mass., 1914. 



Wood-tising industries 



Bray, C. I., & Forrester, D. R. Silos in 

 Oklahoma. 83 p. il. Stillwater, Okla., 

 1914. (Oklahoma — Agricultural " experi- 

 ment station. Bulletin 101.) 



Stadler, J. Pulp and news paper manufacture. 

 14 p. il., pi. Montreal, Canadian society 

 of civil engineers, 1914. 



Auxiliary Subjects. 



Botany 



Piper, Charles Vancouver, and Beattie, Rolla 

 Kent. Flora of southeastern Washington 

 and adjacent Idaho. 296 p. Lancaster, 

 Pa., New Era printing co., 1914. 



Statistics 



Milner, Robert Teague. East Texas; its 

 topography, soils, timber, agricultural 

 products, people, rainfall, streams, climate, 

 etc, 40 p. Austin, 1914. (Texas — Dept. 

 of agriculture. Bulletin 38.) 



Periodical Articles. 



Miscellaneous periodicals 



Agricultural journal of the Union of South 

 Africa, Aug. 1914. — Prosopis juliflora, the 

 mesquite or algaraba tree, and Prosopis 

 pubescens, the screw bean, by C. C. 

 Robertson, p. 233-9. 



American botanist, Aug. 1914. — The cactus and 

 the desert, by Willard N. Clute, p. 86-90; 

 Osage orange as a dye-wood, p. 113. 



American sheep breeder, Oct. 1914. — Grazing 

 in national forests; better rates for sheep, 

 by A. F. Potter, p. 646. 



Bulletin of the Torrey botanical club, July 

 1914. — Observations on the edge of the 

 forest in the Kodiak region of Alaska, by 

 Robert F. Griggs, p. 381-5. 



Country gentleman, Oct. 17, 1914. — Don't 

 suffocate trees; when grading leave a 

 breathing space for the roots, by Phebe 

 Wescott Humphrey's, p. 1717-18. 



Country gcntelman, Oct. 31, 1914. — Does the 

 windbreak pay? by Samuel J. Record, p. 

 1776-7. 



Fire prevention news, Oct. 1914. — Fire situa- 

 tion in the national forests, by Bristow 

 Adams, p. 9-10. 



Gardener's chronicle, Sept. 12, 1914. — Tree- 

 planting in Uruguay, p. 192. 



Gardener's chronicle, Oct. 17, 1914. — A new 

 hybrid poplar, by A. Henry, p. 257-9. 



Journal of heredity, Oct. 1914. — Tree growth 

 and seed, by James B. Berry, p. 431-4. 



Nineteenth century, Sept. 1914. — Afforestation 

 and timber planting in Ireland, bv J. 

 Nisbet, p. 643-59. 



Popular science monthly, Nov. 1914. — Tree 

 distribution in central California, by W. A. 

 Cannon, p. 417-24; Rubber, wild, planta- 

 tion and synthetic, by John Waddell, p. 

 443-56. 



St. Nicholas, Oct. 1914.— The watch towers of 

 the forests, by Day Allen Willey, p. 1 132-5. 



Science, Nov. 6, 1914. — -Tricarpellary and tetra- 

 carpellary ash fruits, by Charles Edwin 

 Bessey, p. 679 



Scientific American, Sept. 26, 1914. — Fire 

 precautions in a California park, p. 251. 



Scientific American, Oct. 24, 1914.— Why a 

 girdled tree can continue to grow, p. 339. 



Torreya, Oct. 1914. — The vegetation of Connec- 

 ticut, by G. E. Nichols, p. 167-94. 



United States — Department of agriculture. 

 Journal of agricultural research, Oct. 

 1914. — Heart-rot of oaks and poplars 

 caused by Polyporus dryophilus, by 

 George C. Hedgcock, and W. H. Long, 

 p. 65-78. 



United States— Department of agriculture. 

 Weekly news letter to crop correspondents, 

 Oct. 21, 1914. — Wood ashes if stored and 

 kept dry may furnish a valuable source of 

 potash, p. 3-4. 



United States — Dept. of agriculture. Weekly 

 news letter to crop correspondents, Oct. 28, 

 1914. — Wood lot improvement, fuel, and 

 fertilizer go hand in hand, p. 3. 



Trade Journals and consular reports 



American lumberman, Oct. 17, 1914. — -The 

 manufacture of charcoal, p. 23; Commer- 

 cializing southern moss, p. 26. 



American lumberman, Oct. 24, 1914. — Utilizing 

 the national forests; plans for the Olympic 

 reserve, by Henry S. Graves, p. 29; 

 Potash from wood ashes, p. 35. 



American lumberman, Oct. 31, 1914. — Under- 

 writers' laboratories roofing tests, p. 24; 

 Proof of superiority of wooden truss roofs, 

 p. 34-5. 



Canada lumberman, Oct. 15, 1914. — The 

 telephone a great aid in the bush; logging 

 operations and fire ranging facilitated, by 

 Charles E. Read, Jr., p. 31; Lumber 

 consumed in a battleship, p. 40-1. 



Canada lumberman, Nov. 1, 1914. — Cableway 

 logging operating methods, by Asa F. 

 Williams, p. 34-5; Overhead yarding, by 

 James C. Hearne, p. 48. 



Engineering- record, Aug. 29, 1915. — Factors 

 affecting structural timber, by H. S. 

 Betts, p. 255-7. 



Engineering record, Sept. 26, 1914. — -Factors 

 affecting structural timber, by F. J. 

 Hoxic, p. 364. 



Gulf Coast lumberman, Nov. 1, 1914.— Re- 

 grading as a legitimate practice, by D. E. 

 Mead, p. 18, 234. 



Handle trade, Nov. 1914. — Making vehicles 

 and parts in Ohio, p. 3-4. 



Hardwood record, Oct. 25, 1914. — The lowly 

 buckeye, p. 21; Compression failures as 

 defects, by L. J. Markwardt, p. 24-5; 

 The lead pencil supply, p. 25; Effect of 

 locality on growth, by S. J. Record, p. 27; 

 Commercial uses of sabicu, p. 31. 



