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service. State forestry laws; Maryland, 

 tlirough regular session, 1914. 6 p. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. 



United States — ^Dept. of agriculture — Forest 

 service. State forestry laws; Missouri, 

 through regular session, 1915. 2 p. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. 



United States — Dept. of agriculture — Forest 

 service. State forestry laws; North 

 Carolina, through regular session, 1915. 

 5 p. Wash., D.C., 1915. 



United States — Dept. of agriculture — Forest 

 service. State forestry laws; Texas, 

 through regular session, 1915. 3 p. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. 



United States — Dept. of agriculture — Forest 

 service. State forestry laws; Virginia, 

 through regular session, 1914. 6 p. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. 



United States — Dept. of agriculture — Forest 

 service. Forestry laws of Wisconsin, 

 through regular session, 1915. 16 p. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. 



United States — Dept. of agriculture — Forest 

 service. State forestry laws; Wyoming, 

 through regular session, 1915. ^ p. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. 



Forest Utilization 



Lumber industry 



Bams, W. E. Business and lumber trade 

 conditions, Nos. 42, 43. St. Louis, Mo. 

 St. Louis lumberman, 1915. 



National lumber manufacturers' association. 

 The modem lumberman; reports and 

 addresses presented at the 13th annual 

 meeting, in San Francisco, Cal., May 

 12-13,1915. 196p. Chicago, 111., 1915. 



Wood Technology 



Betts, Harold Scofield and Newlin, J. A. 

 Strength tests of structural timbers 

 treated by commercial wood-preserving 

 processes. 15 p. il. Wash., D. C, 

 1915. (U. S.— Dept. of agriculture. 

 BuUetin 286.) 



British Columbia — Department of lands — 

 Forest branch. British Columbia red 

 cedar shingles. 12 p. il. Victoria, B. C, 

 1915. 



British Columbia — Dept. of lands — Forest 

 branch. British Columbia timber and 

 other forest products for export. 40 p. 

 il. Victoria, B. C, 1915. 



British Columbia — Dept. of lands — Forest 

 branch. How to finish British Columbia 

 wood. 16 p. il. Victoria, B. C, 1915. 



National fire protection association. Report 

 of the committee on uses of wood in 

 building construe ion. 55 p. il. Bos- 

 ton, Mass., 1915. 



Wood Preservation 



MacDonald, G. B. Preservative treatment 

 of fence posts. 70 p. Ames, la., 1915. 

 (Iowa — Agricultural experiment station. 

 Bulletin 158.) 



Auxiliary Subjects 



Description and travel 



Darton, Nelson Horatio and others. Guide- 

 book of the United States, pt. C: The 



Santa Fe route, with a side trip to the 

 Grand Canyon of the Colorado. 194 p. 

 il., pi., maps. Wash., D. C, 1915. 

 (U. S. — Geological survey. Bulletin 613.) 



Botany , 



United States — Dept. of agriculture — Forest 

 service. Notes in national forest range 

 plants, pt. 1: Grasses. 224 p. Wash., 

 D. C, 1914. 



Irrigation 



International irrigation congress. Official 

 proceedings of the 21st International 

 irrigation congress, held at Calgary, 

 Alberta, Canada, Oct. 5-9, 1914. 402 p. 

 il. Ottawa, 1915. 



Engineering 



Los Angeles county, California — Board of 

 engineers, flood control. Provisional re- 

 port, submitted to the Board of super- 

 visors, Los Angeles county, June 3, 1914. 

 24 p. il. Los Angeles, 1914. 



Periodical Articles 



Miscellaneous periodicals 



Agricultural gazette of Tasmania, July, 1915. 

 — The stave silo, by F. H. Johnstone, 

 p. 259-62. 



Annals of botany, July, 1915. — -"Brown oak" 

 and its origin, by Percy Groom, p. 

 393-408. 



Capital, Sept., 1915. — Giant trees of Sequoia, 

 p. 13, 14. 



Country gentleman, Sept. 25, 1915. — Stop- 

 ping runaway waters; Mangum terraces 

 keep farms on hillsides, even when it 

 rains, by J. Russell Smith, p. 14S5-6; 

 That hedge fence; an asset that has 

 become a liability, by Herbert R. Cox, 

 p. 1493. 



Far Eastern review, Aug., 1915. — Philippine 

 woods for the China and foreign m rkets, 

 by W. F. Sherfesee, p. 88-92. 



Gardeners' chronicle, Aug. 21, 1915. — Forest 

 trees in trenched and untrenched grounds 

 by Vicary Gibbs, p. Ill; "Witche, 

 broom" on willow, by A. D. Webster 

 p. 123. 



Journal of industrial and engineering chem- 

 istry, Sept., 1915. — A new native dye- 

 wood; Robinia pseudacacia, by F. P. 

 Dunnington, p. 806. 



Journal of the Linnean society. Botany, 

 May 15, 1915. — Structure of the wood of 

 Himalayan junipers, by W. Rushton, 

 p. 1-13. 



National wool grower, Sept., 1915. — Grazing 

 sheep on range without water, by J. T. 

 Jardine, p. 7-10. 



Nation's business, Sept. 15, 1915. — What is 



wrong with the lumber business, p. 13. 



Nineteenth century and after, July, 1915. — 



Effect of six months' war on the timber 



supplies, by E. P. Stebbing, p. 204-17. 



Philippine trade review, Aug., 1915. — Export 



timbers of the Philippines, p. 7-12. 

 Plant world, Aug., 1915. — The dunes of Lake 

 Michigan, by Theo. J. Stomps, p. 205-16. 

 Scientific American, Sept. 4, 1915. — The war 

 and lumber, p. 194. 



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Southern planter, Sept., 1915. — Reclamation 

 of gullied land, by R. C. Jones, p. 493-4. 



Technical world magazine, June, 1915. — To 

 turn New York into a forest, by J. B. 

 Bell, p. 457-9. 



Trade journals and consular reports 



American lumberman, Sept. 11, 1915. — Test 

 wood for battleships; Forest products 

 laboratory searching for material to 

 use as backing for armor plate, p. 31; 

 A visual method of distinguishing long- 

 leaf pine, by Arthur Koehler, p. 34-5; 

 Silo preservatives that are safe, p. 50-1. 



American lumberman, Sept. 18, 1915. — 

 Failure of Tacoma bridge striking lesson, 

 by Paul P. Whitham, p. 29; Wooden 

 houses can be built to lessen fire risk, 

 p. 32-3. 



American lumberman, Sept. 25, 1915. — How 

 to make a good shingle roof, p. 40-1 

 Describes extracting discovery, by Her- 

 bert Newton Crites, p. 53. 



.American lumberman, Oct. 2, 1915. — -Profit 

 able field for use of wood is presented; 

 telegraph company can use millions of 

 feet of creosoted wood ducts, p. 30-1. 



Canada lumberman, Sept. 15, 1915. — Use of 

 Douglas fir ably advocated, by J. R 

 Chamberlain, p. 27; Lumber and its 

 interests at Canadian national exhibition, 

 p. 32-4; Tool handles used in Great 

 Britain, p. 34; The wooden pole market 

 in England, by H. R. MacMillan, p. 35. 

 Commercial importance of maple, by 

 A. H. D. Ross, p. 36-7. 



