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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Land, Log and Lumber Company, of Mil- 

 waukee. The State has been negotiating for 

 these lands for over a year. They were cut 

 over about twenty years ago, and the area 

 comprises nearly two townships. Another 

 large deal will be made soon, when the H. 

 W. Wright Lumber Company, of Merrill, 

 will transfer 16,000 acres of cutover land to 

 the State. In addition to these two large 

 purchases, the State forest reserve has been 

 increased by the acquirement of 500 acres 

 comprising 250 small islands donated by Con- 

 gress and located in inland waters in the 

 northern part of the State, giving the State 

 a complete forest reserve of about 400,000 

 acres, not including the lands held by the 

 State for sale to be used for agricultural 

 purposes. 



Louisiana. 



Reports from the overflow section of Lou- 

 isiana and Mississippi indicate much damage 

 to logs and down timber by a black beetle 

 that has flourished unusually well since the 

 overflow set in. The beetle is a borer which 

 goes through the wood as if it was dust. 



A number of lumber companies operating 

 in overflowed sections have called off their 

 men in the woods until all logs on hand 

 have been put through the mills. Several 

 concerns, especially in Northeast Louisiana, 

 report that the beetle has caused them thou- 

 sands of dollars of damage. The damage is 

 greater in some sections than others, seem- 

 ingly depending upon present ground condi- 

 tions. 



CURRENT LITERATURE 



MONTHLY LIST FOR SEPT., 1912. 



(Books and periodicals indexed in the 



Library of the United States Forest 



Service.) 



Forestry as a Whole 



Chapman, Herman H. Forestry; an elemen- 

 tary treatise. 79 p. Chicago, American 

 lumberman, 1912. 



Holmes, J. S. A forester's notes from 

 Europe; Germany. 4 p. Chapel Hill, 

 N. C, 1912. (N. C— Geological and 

 economic survey. Press bulletin 87.) 



Mumford, George D. The world's timber 

 problem, with some conclusions. 56 p. 

 N. Y., 1912. 



Proceedings and reports of Associations, 

 Forest Offices, etc. 



Canadian forestry association. Report of the 

 thirteenth annual convention and meeting 

 held at Ottawa, Feb. 7th and 8th, 1912. 

 123 p. Ottawa, 1912. 



India — Bombay presidency — Forest dept. 

 Administration report of the forest cir- 

 cles including Sind, for the year 1910- 

 1911. 176 p. Bombay, India, 1912. 



India — Burma — Forest dept. Reports on the 

 forest administration in Burma for the 

 year 1910-11. 206 p. Rangoon, India, 

 1912. 



India — Central provinces — Forest dept. Re- 

 port on the forest administration of the 

 Central provinces for the year 1910-11. 

 150 p. Nagpur, India, 1912. 



India — Coorg — Forest dept. Progress report 



of forest administration for 1910-1911. 

 23 p. Bangalore, India, 1912. 

 Minnesota — State forester. First anual re- 

 port, 1911. 16 p. il., map. Duluth, 

 Minn., 1912. 



Forest Education 



Arbor Day. 



Oregon — Dept. of public instruction. Oregon 

 arbor and bird day manual. 32 p. il. 

 Salem, Ore., 1912. 



Forest schools 



New York state college of forestry, Syracuse 

 university. Announcement of ranger 

 _ school. 16 p. Syracuse, N. Y., 1912. 



University of Idaho — Dept. of forestry. An- 

 nouncements concerning the courses to 

 be offered in forestry, 1912-1913. 16 p. 

 Moscow, Idaho, 1912. 



Forest Description 



Cameron, D. Roy. Report on timber con- 

 ditions around Lesser Slave lake. 54 p. 

 il., map. Ottawa, 1912. (Canada— Dept. 

 of the interior — Forestry branch. Bulle- 

 tin 29.) 



Forest Botany 



Trees, classification and description 

 Maiden, J. H. The forest flora of New 

 South Wales, pt. 48. 12 p. pi. Sydney, 

 N. S. W., Gov't printer, 1912. 



Woods, classification and structure 



Record, Samuel J. Identification of the 

 economic woods of the United States, 

 including a discussion of the structural 



