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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The Department of Lands and Forests 

 of Quebec, in cooperation with the Lauren- 

 tide Company, Ltd., have set aside a tract 

 of about four square miles of practically 

 virgin timber to be used as an experi- 

 mental tract. The Chief Forester, Mr. 

 Piche, and the Company's Forester will 

 decide on methods of cutting and brush 

 disposal and these will be carried out 

 under careful super\-ision, and the costs 

 of different methods and their effects on 

 the stands and on regeneration will be 

 carefully studied. Much valuable informa- 

 tion should be obtained. 



Current 



An order-in-Council will soon be passed 

 by the Quebec Government making it 

 obligatory on all timber operators to 

 clean up their lands to a depth of 100 

 feet from the edge of the right-of-way of 

 any railroad passing through their land 



The Laurentide Co., Ltd., will finish its 

 season's planting operations b}' planting 

 90,000 Norway Spruce, three-year-old seed- 

 lings. Plantations previously made have 

 made exceptionally good growth this 

 season. 



British Columbia Notes. 



Another result of the efforts made by 

 the Provincial Government on behalf of 

 the lumber industry is announced by the 

 Minister of Lands, the Admiralty having 

 agreed to turn over to the British Co- 

 lumbia Government, for one voyage from 

 this Coast to the United Kingdom, the 

 steamer "Grahamland" now at the Falkland 

 Islands. The "Grahamland" has an in- 

 teresting history, having been, until the 

 destruction of Admiral von Spee's squad- 

 ron, the German collier "Josephena," 

 when she surrendered to one of the 

 British warships. The ship was offered 

 through the Agent-General, to the British 

 Columbia Government for the transport 

 of a lumber cargo to the United Kingdom, 

 not necessarily for amiralty purposes, and 

 this being so, all timber shippers were 

 notified and asked to make offers for the 

 vessel, the amount of the charter being 

 £6,600, The bid of the Cameron Lumber 

 Company, of Victoria, was accepted, and 

 the "Grahamland" is expected to arrive 

 for August loading. Her capacity is 

 given as 550 standards equal to 1,100.000 

 feet, and the securing of such a vessel 

 at a time when tonnage is scarce by a 

 British Columbia firm even at such a high 

 figure is a matter for congratulation. 



The last weekly telegraphic reports re- 

 ceived by the Minister of Lands concern- 

 ing the forest fire hazard were very en- 

 couraging, every district reporting several 

 days of rain accompanied by cool weather. 

 A few fires occurred in slash, but were 

 extinguished without trouble and expense, 

 the fire stopping in every instance as soon 

 a? green timber was reached. 



Literature 



MONTHLY LIST FOR AUGUST, 1915 



(Books and periodicals indexed in the Library 

 of the United States Forest Sen'ice.) 



Forestry as a Whole 



Lawson, William Pinkney. The log of a 

 timber cruiser. 214 p. pi. X. Y., 

 Duffield & Co., 1915. 



Proceedings and reports of associations, forest 

 officers, etc. 



India — Assam — Forest department. Progress 

 report of forest administration for the 

 year 1913-19U. 92 p. maps. Shil- 

 iong, 1914. 



India — Coorg — Forest department. Progress 

 report of forest administration in Coorg 

 for 1913-1914. 28 p. Bangalore, 1915. 



Nigeria, Southern — Forest department. An- 

 nual report on forest administration for 

 the year 1913. 17 p. Olokemeji, 1914. 



Philippine Islands — Forestry, Bvu-eau of. 

 Annual report of the director of forestry' 

 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 



1914. 78 p. Manila, 1915. 



Rhode Island — Commissioner of forestry". 

 Ninth annual report, 1914. 16 p. 

 Providence, R. I., 1915. 



Forest Aesthetics 



Elwood, P. H. Director for planting trees, 

 shrubs and flowers about the home. 4p. 

 il. 23 cm. Amherst, Mass., 1915. 

 (Mass. agricultural college — Extension 

 service. Facts for farmers, v. 5, no. 8.) 

 Forest Education 



.4 rbor day 



North Carolina — Geological and economic 

 survey. Suggestions regarding arbor 

 day program. 3 p. Chapel Hill, N. C, 



1915. (Press bulletin 148.) 



Forest Description 



Tkachenko, M. Lyesa, lyesnoe khozyaistvo 

 i drevoobrabatuivayushchaya promui- 

 shlennost Syevero-Amerikanskikh Soe- 

 dinennuikh Shtatov. . . . (Forests, 

 forestry and wood-using industries of 

 the United States of North America.) 

 273 p. pi. maps. Petrograd, 1914. 



Forest Botany 



Trees: classification and description 

 Sudworth, George B. The cypress and 



juniper trees of the Rocky Mt. region. 



36 p. pi., maps. Wash., D. C, 1915 



(U. S. — Dept. of agriculture. Bulletin 



207.) 



Silvical Studies and Species 



Ashe, W. W. Loblolly or North Carolina 

 pine. 176 p. pi. , map. Raleigh, N. C, 

 1915. (North Carolina — Geological and 

 economic survey. Bulletin no. 24.) 



Mason, D. T. Utilization and management 

 of lodgepole pine in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. 54 p. pi., map. Wash., D. C, 

 1915. (U. S.— Dept. of agriculture. 

 Bulletin 234.) 



Mattoon, Wilbur R. Life history of shortiea: 

 pine. 46 p. il., pi. Wash., D. C, 

 1915. (U. S. — Dept. of agriculture. 

 Bulletin 244.) 



Silviculture 



Planting 



Hawes, Austin F. Forest planting in Ver- 

 mont as an investment. 34 p. pi. 

 Burlington, Vt., 1915. (Vermont — Agri- 

 cultural experiment station. Bulletin 

 no. 188. Forestry publication no. 17.) 



Massachusetts — State forester. The older 

 forest plantations in Massachusetts; 

 conifers, by J. R. Simmons. 38 p. pi. 

 Boston, Mass., 1915. 



Forest Protection 

 Insects 

 Brunner, Josef. Douglas fir pitch moth. 



23 p. il. Wash., D. C, 1915. (U. S.— 



Dept. of agriculture. Bulletin 255.) 

 Burgess, A. F. The Calosoma beetle, 



Calosoma sycophanta in New England. 



40 p. il., pi., map. Wash., D. C, 1915. 



(U. S. — Dept. of agriculture. Bulletin 



243.) 



Mosher, F. H. Food plants of the gipsy 

 moth in America. 39 p. pi. Wash., 

 D. C, 1915. (U. S.— Dept. of agricul- 

 ture. Bulletin 250.) 



Diseases 



Hedgcock, George G. A disease of pines 



caused by Cromartium pyriforme. 20 p. 



pi. Wash., D. C, 1915.' (U. S.— Dept. 



of agriculture. Bulletin 247.) 



Forest Administration 



United States — Dept. of agriculture — Forest 

 service. July field program, 1915. 27 p. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. 



United States — Dept. of agriculture — Forest 

 service. The use book; a manual for 

 users of the national forests, 1915. 160 p. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. 



Forest Engineering 



United States — Dept. of agriculture — Forest 

 ser\-ice. Telephone construction and 

 maintenance on the national forests. 

 83 p. il. Wash., D. C, 1915. 



Forest Utilization 



Wood-nsing industries 



Creosoted wood paving block bureau. Creo- 



soted wood block pavements. 4 p. il. 



Chicago, 111., 1915. 



Eckles, C. H. The silo and its uses. 19 p. 

 il. Columbia, Mo., 1915. (Missouri — 

 Agricultural experiment station. Bulle- 

 tin no. 133.) 



Southern pine association. What the cities 

 say about creosoted wood block pave- 

 ments. 24 p. il. New Orleans, La., 

 1915. 



United States — Dept. of commerce — Bureau 

 of foreign and domestic commerce. 

 Paper and stationer}' trade of the 

 world. 458 p. Wash., D. C, 1915. 

 (Special consular report no. 73.) 



