CURRENT LITERATURE 



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Interesting accounts of trench fighting 

 in Belgium came from Ranger Turnbull, of 

 tlic Princess Patricia's Light Infantry. No 

 word has been received from Ranger 

 Brewer, Forest Assistant Pickup, Draughts- 

 man Stone, Scaler Milroy and other of 

 tlie B. C. Forest Service now at the front. 



James Eddie, clerk, has been wounded 

 and is in the hospital, with the prospect of 

 remaining there for several weeks, suffer- 

 ing from a compound fracture. 



Assistant Forester H. K. Robinson, who 

 holds a commission in the 5th Regiment, 

 Royal Canadian Artillery, is leaving for 

 tbe front in charge of a detachment pro- 

 vided by that regiment for active service. 



Forest Assistant F. McVickar, of the 

 Royal Canadian Dragoons, who has been in 

 tiie trenches for several months, is now in 

 England recovering from sickness. 



Current 



Literature 



MONTHLY LIST FOR SEPTEMBER, 

 1915. 



(Books and periodical articles indexed in the 



Library of the United States Forest 



Service.) 



FORESTRY AS A WHOLE 



Bibliographies 



Arnold Arboretum. Catalogue of the library 

 of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard 

 University, v. 1. 782 p. Cambridge, 

 Mass., 1914. (Publication no. 6.) 



Proceedings and reports of associations, state 

 forest officers, etc. 



Canada — Dept. of the interior — Forestry 

 branch. Report of the director of 

 forestry for the year 1914. 133 p. il. 

 Ottawa, 1915. 



India — Bengal — Forest dept. Annual pro- 

 gress report on forest administration, 

 1913-14. 56 p. Calcutta, 1914. 



Nebraska — State forestation commission. 

 Biennial report, 1st, 1913-14. 8 p. 

 Lincohi, Nebr., 1914. 



Royal Scottish arboricultural society. Trans- 

 actions, v. 29, pt. 2. 124 p. pL Edin- 

 burgh, 1915. 



Biographies of Foresters 



Iowa park and forestry association. Major 

 John F. Lacey: memorial volume. 

 454 p. pi. Ames, la., 1915. 



Forest Aesthetics 



Street and park trees 



Newark, N. J. — Shade tree commission. 



Eleventh annual report, 1914. 61 p. il. 



Newark, 1915. 



Forest Education 



North Dakota state school of forestry. 

 Ninth annual catalog, 1914-15, with 

 announcements for 1915-16. 48 p. pi. 

 Bottineau, N. D., 1915. 



Silvics 



Ecology 



Morozov, G. F. Lyes kak rastitel'noe 

 soobshchestvo (The forest as a plant 

 community). 44 p. il. S.-Peterburgh, 

 1913. 



Sukachev, V. N. Vedenie v uchenie o 

 rastitel'iuikh soobshchestvak (Introduc- 

 tion to the study of plant associations). 

 127 p. il. Petrograd, 1915. 



Silviculture 



Planting 



Haughs, David. Instructions for propagat- 

 ing forest, shade and ornamental trees. 

 11 p. Honolulu, 1915. (Hawaii — Board 

 of commissioners of agriculture and 

 forestry — Division of forestry. Circular 

 no. 2.) 



Pruning 



Atwood, W. M. and others. Pruning. 72 p. 

 il. Corvallis, Ore., 1915. (Oregon- 

 Agricultural experiment station. Bul- 

 letin 130.) 



Forest Protection 



Insects 



Collins, C. W. Dispersion of gipsy-moth 

 larvae by the wind. 23 p. pi., maps. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. (U. S.— Dept. of 

 agriculture. Bulletin 273.) 



Miller, John M. Cone beetles; injury to 

 sugar pine and western yellow pine. 12 

 p. pi. Wash., D. C, 1915. (U. S.— 

 Dept. of agriculture. Bulletin 243.) 



Diseases 



Giddings, N. J., and Berg, A. Apple rust or 

 cedar rust in West Virginia. 16 p. il. 

 Morgantown, W. Va., 1915. (W. Va.— 

 Agricultural experiment station. Cir- 

 cular IS.) 



Stewart, V. B. Some important leaf diseases 

 of nursery stock. 60 p. il. Ithaca, 

 N. Y., 1915. (Cornell university — 

 Agricultural experiment station. Bul- 

 letin 358.) 



Studhalter, R. A., and Ruggles, A. G. In- 

 sects as carriers of the chestnut blight 

 fungus. 33 p. pi. Harrisburg, Pa., 

 1915. (Pennsylvania — Dept. of forestry. 

 Bulletin 12.) 



Forest Legislation 



Kalbfus, Joseph, ed. Digest of the game, 

 fish and forestry of Pennsylvania, 1915. 

 342 p. Harrisburg, Pa., 1915. 



Forest Utilization 



Wood-using industries 



Lewis, R. G., and Boyce, W.'G. H. Forest 

 products of Canada, 1914: poles and 

 cross-ties. 15 p. il. Ottawa, 1915. 

 (Canada — Dept. of the interior — Fores- 

 try branch. Bulletin 55.) 



Grade One 



Creosote Oil 



Cuts wood preserving 

 bills in half — 



For preserving telephone 

 poles, telegraph poles, cross 

 arms, railroad ties, fence 

 posts, mine timbers, under- 

 ground sills, sleepers, bridge 

 timbers, planking, ice 

 houses, wood tanks, shing- 

 les, poultry houses, silos, 

 boat timbers or any exposed 

 woodwork. 



Especially adapted for brush 

 and open tank treatment of 

 structural timbers of aU 

 kinds. 



Booklet on request. 



Barrett Manufacturing Co. 



New York 



Boston 



Cincinnati 



Detroit 



Kansas City 



Salt Lake City Seattle 



Lewis, R. G., and Boyce, W. G. H. Forest 

 products of Canada, 1914: pulpwood. 18 

 p. pi., map. Ottawa, 1915. (Canada — 

 Dept. of the interior — Forestry branch. 

 Bulletin 54.) 



New Jersey — Forest park reser\'ation com- 

 mission. Wood using industries of New 

 Jersey, by Albert H. Pierson. 63 p. 

 Trenton, N. J., 1914. 



Wood Preservation 



Humphrey, C. J., and Fleming, Ruth M. 

 The toxicity to fungi of various oils and 

 salts, particularly those used in wood 

 preservation. 38 p. pi. Wash., D. C, 

 1915. (U. S.— Dept. of agriculture. 

 Bulletin 227.) 



Auxiliary Subjects 



Agriculture 



Pearson, R. A. Agricultural organizations 

 in European countries. 186 p. pi. 

 Albany, N. Y., 1914. (New York— 

 Dept. of agriculture. Bulletin 66.) 



Irrigation 



Robertson, Ralph D., and Nelson, J. W. 

 Irrigation and soil conditions in the 

 Sierra Nevada foothills, CaL 56 p. il. 

 Berkeley, Cal., 1915. (California— Agri- 

 cultural experiment station. Bulletin 

 253.) 



Grazing 



Darlington, H. T. A study of grazing con- 

 ditions in the Wenaha national forest. 

 18 p. pi., map. Pulhnan, Wash., 1915. 

 (Washington — Agricultural experiment 

 station. Bulletin 122.) 



