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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



January 1919 Vol. 25 



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CONTENTS 



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IN THE WASHINGTON NATIONAL FOREST 



A beautiful waterfall, with a drop of five hundred 

 feet, on a tributary of the Skagit River 



No. 301 



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Entered as second-class matter December 24, 1909, at the 

 Postoffice at Washington, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 

 Copyright, 1919. by the American Forestry Association. Accep- 

 tance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in 

 Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized July 11, 1918. 



Frontispiece — "A Mighty Tree" — Poem. 



Victory Gardens — By Charles Lathrop Pack 771 



With eighteen illustrations. 



Theodore Roosevelt — Conservationist 778 



With one illustration. 



Trees For Memorials 779 



With three illustrations. 

 Care For the Birds in Winter 781 



Uses of the Brazil Nut Tree— By C. H. Pearson 782 



With five illustrations. 



The Possibilities of Farm Woodland Development Under the Smith- 

 Lever Act— By C. R. Tillotson 785 



With four illustrations. 



Digest of Opinions on Forestry 788 



To Help Reforest France 789 



With one illustration. 



Forestry for Boys and Girls — By E. G. Cheyney 790 



Gather Walnuts for Planting 792 



The Timber Census in the Northeastern States 792 



The Sandpipers— By A. A. Allen 793 



With eleven illustrations. 



Pruning for Profit— By Will C. Barnes 798 



With tvifo illustrations. 



To Purchase Additional Lands for Eastern National Forests 806 



How Wood Compares With Coal in Heating Value 806 



The Uses of Wood — Wooden Artificial Limbs — By Hu Maxwell 807 



With twenty-one illustrations. 



The National Army and Training in Forestry— By James W. Tourney. . 816 



Sale of Surplus Farm Timber 817 



Control of Private Forest Cutting— By W. Darrow Clark 818 



Renascence of the Wooden Meeting House— By Joy Wheeler Dow 819 



With seven illustrations. 



Secretary Houston Urges Protection of Forests 822 



Alphabet Grown on Trees— By H. E. Zimmerman 823 



With one illustration. 



Canadian Department — By EUwood Wilson 825 



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