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I AMERICAN FORESTRY | 



I THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION | 



I PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor | 



I September 1919 Vol. 25 CONTENTS No. 309 | 



^ III ^ 



The Pines — Poem, by Lew. R. Sarett Frontispiece 



Forest Losses on the Italian Front — By Nelson Courtlandt Brown 1315 



With twenty-six ilhistrations. 



The Fir— Poem, by Donald A. Fraser 1328 



The Guardian of Our Forests — By Alice Spencer Cook 1329 



With nine illustrations. 



National Honor Roll, Memorial Trees 1333 



"Roads of Remembrance" 1334 



With five illustrations. 

 A National Forest Policy — Discussion of the Proposed Legislation: 



Forest Economics: Some Thoughts on an Old Subject — By Wilson 



Conipton 1337 



Mandatory Control Opposed— By E. A. Sterling 1339 



Publicity Education Necessary — By R. S. Maddox 1340 



A Lumberman's Viewpoint — By Everitt G. Griggs 1340 



Lease Holds Interfere — By G. L. Hume 1341 



No Half- Way Policies— By J. E. Barton 1341 



A Forest Policy Badly Needed— By Ellwood Wilson 1342 



Terms Used in Farm Forestry 1342 



The Uses of Wood— Floors Made of Wood— By Hu Maxwell 1343 



With ten illustrations. 



Erosion in the Appalachian and Piedmont Regions 1350 



With five illustrations. 



Why and How Some Forest Fires Occur 1354 



With two illustrations. 



Conservation of Paper 1355 



Tree Planting Taken up by Many Editors 1356 



Summer Walks in the Woodland — Along the Palisades in Interstate Park 



—By J. Otis Swift 1358 



With six illustrations. 



Mexico as a Source of Timber — By Austin F. Macdonald 1361 



Spruce Tree 573 Years Old 1363 



Book Reviews 1363 



State News 1364 



California Louisiana North Carolina Pennsylvania Texas 

 Colorado Michigan Oregon Virginia Wisconsin 



Canadian Department — By Ellwood Wilson 1371 



Airplanes Find Forest Fires 1371 



Forest School Notes 1372 



Bouquets 1375 



Entered as second-class matter December 21. 1909, at the Postoffice at Washington, under the Act of March 3. 1879. Copyright, 1919, by the American 

 Forestry Association. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section UOS, Act of October 3, 1917. authorized July 11, 1918. 



