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Overland monthly, May 1912. — Conservation 

 and the farmer, by C. B. Lipman. p. 

 473-8. 



Plant world. July 1912.— The behavior of 

 the nectar gland in the cacti, by Fran- 

 cis E. Lloyd and Chas. S. llidgway, p. 

 145-56. 



Quarterly journal of economics, May 1912. — 

 Lumber grading in the Pacific northwest, 

 by V. Curtis, p. 538-44. 



Scientific American, May 11, 1912. — Zapote 

 tree as a source of chicle, p. 528. 



Scientific American, May IS, 1912. — Most ex- 

 pensive wood in the world ; cabole, p. 

 444. 



Scientific American, May 25, 1912. — Method 

 of making pulp lumber, by M. T. S., p. 

 475. 



Scientific American, June 15, 1912. — How we 

 can utilize $250,000,000 worth of wasted 

 timber, p. 537, 547-9. 



Trade journals and consular reports 



American lumberman, June 15, 1912. — Inci- 

 dental features of logging operations, p. 

 58-9. 



American lumberman, June 29, 1912. — Some 

 construction timbers of the Philippines; 

 tanguile, by H. N. Whitford, p. 37. 



American lumberman, July 6, 1912. — Some 

 construction timbers of the Philippines; 

 apitong, by H. N. Whitford, p. 29 ; Dura- 

 bility of wood, p. 29; Merits of wood 

 blocks for street paving, p. 49. 



Canada lumberman, June 15, 1912. — Modern 

 methods of timber estimating, by T. 

 Read, p. 48-9. 



Canada lumberman, July 1, 1912. — Interesting 

 facts about timber cruisers, p. 50-2. 



Engineering magazine. May 1912. — Refrac- 

 tory building material; a new non-com- 

 bustible wood substitute for building 

 purposes, by C. L Norton, p. 279-81. 



Hardwood record, June 25, 1912. — Forests 

 as climate regulations, p. 31; Increasing 

 kiln capacity, p. 32-3 ; Cell structure of 

 oak and gum, p. 33-4; Forest fires; what 

 they cost, how they start, how to pre- 

 vent them, by Chas. H. Flory, p. 35 ; 

 Wooden pails and shoe pegs, p. 38-9 ; 

 Cherry birch for gunstocks, by S. J. R., 

 p. 39 ; Burls and bird's-eye, by S. J. R., 

 p. 41-2. 



Hardwood record, July 10, 1912.— Making 

 wood distillation history, p. 26-8 ; Yellow 

 poplar and cucumber, p. 33; Splash 

 damming on the Big Sandy, p. 34a-36. 



Lumber world review, June 10, 1912. — For- 

 estry work in the state of Massachu- 

 setts, by John M. Woods, p. 19-20; Sugi 

 finish applied to cypress, p. 18-19, 27. 



Naval stores review, June 27, 1912. — The 

 naval stores industry of France ; its 

 origin, development, acreage, annual 

 crops, home consumption and exports, 

 p. 3-13 ; The working of the French pine 

 forests; the prices of turpentine; the 

 values of the lands, p. 13-14; What the 

 maritime pine has done for France, p. 

 16-22; The maritime pine in the United 



States, p. 26; The naval stores industry 

 in Spain, p. 28-31; The naval stores in- 

 dustry in Greece, p. 33-4; Developing 

 naval stores industry in Japan ; worked 

 in a petty way by numerous small 

 farmers, p. 34; Rosin production in Prus- 

 sia, p. 50. 



Paper, July 3, 1912. — Bamboo as papermaking 

 material, by William Raitt, p. 17-18; 

 Forest workers in Germany, p. 19. 



Paper, July 10, 1912. — Mechanical pulp from 

 Jack pine and hemlock, p. 15-16; Wood- 

 pulp yarn ; its manufacture and uses, by 

 W. P. Dreaper, p. 17-18. 



St. Louis lumberman, June 15, 1912. — The 

 Yale forest school in Arkansas, p. 79. 



Southern industrial and lumber review, June 

 1912. — Standing timber values; Texas 

 forests and their values, by F. A. Briggs, 

 p. 37. 



Southern lumber journal, June 15, 1912. — 

 Wood for car wheels ; timber faults 

 pointed out by odd names to the wheel- 

 wright, p. 35. 



Southern lumberman, July 13, 1912. — 

 Methods for utilization of wood waste, 

 by George Walker, p. 41-2. 



Timberman, June 1912.— Practical forestry 

 schools have ever broadening field of 

 usefulness, p. 20-1. 



United States daily consular report, June 

 20, 1912. — Chinese wood oil, by Roger S. 

 Greene, p. 1226-7. 



United States daily consular report, June 

 30, 1912. — Russian state forests, by John 

 H. Grout, p. 1231. 



United States daily consular report, July 12, 

 1912. — Chinese lackwood furniture, by 

 George E. Anderson, o. 202-3. 



Wood craft, July 1912.— Varying character- 

 istics of the same woods, by Samuel J. 

 Record, p. 108; Various tables; their de- 

 velopment, design and construction, by 

 John Bovingdon, p. 110-13; Microphoto- 

 graphs of the structure of wood, p. 114- 

 15; Refractory woods and some substi- 

 tutes for them, by Chas. L Norton, p. 

 116-18. 



Wood-worker, June 1912. — Manufacturing 

 piano sounding boards, by E. E. D., p. 

 27; Relative merits of red and white 

 oak, by George Keller, p. 35-6; The 

 Hawaiian cabinet wood, Acacia koa, by 

 J. S. Bailey, p. 40. 



Forest journals 



AUegemeine forst — und jagd-zeitung, May 

 1912.— Wald und sturm, by Vogl, p. 145- 

 51 ; Forstliche reisenotizen aus Siidi- 

 talien, by A. Miiller, p. 151-5 ; Die nor- 

 malertragstefeln im dienste der praxis, 

 by Eberhard, p. 155-62. 



AUegemeine forst — und jagd-zeitung, June 

 1912. — Die fiirstlich Isenburgischen wal- 

 dungen bei Birstein, by Reiss, p. 181-96. 



Canadian forestry journal, May-June 1912. — 

 A forestry students' camp, by R. B. Mil- 

 ler, p. 59-61 ; Les usages du Bouleau a 

 papier, p. 62-3; Quebec Province starts 

 forest planting, p. 63-5; Our forest re- 



