American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestri; Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



Herman H. Chapman Frederick S. Underhill 



Ernest A. Sterling John E. Rhodes 



S. T. Dana S. N. Spring 



January CONTENTS 1915 



COVER — Homesteaders Home on a National Forest. 



PHILIPPINE FOREST WEALTH— By Dean C. Worcester 1 



With fifteen illustrations. 



SELECTING SHADE TREES— By S. B. Detwiler 18 



THE FORESTS OF BELGIUM— By Charles Harris Whitaker 22 



With twelve illustrations. 



SHADE TREES WORTH $17,000.000.00 32 



THE DRYAD'S MESSAGE— Poem— By Louise Morey Bowman 33 



THE STORY OF WHITE PINE— By Hu Maxwell 34 



With eleven illustrations. 



TREE PLANTING IN NEWARK— By Carl Bannwart 46 



FIRE PROTECTION ON THE NATIONAL FORESTS IN 1914— By 



Henry S. Graves 47 



THE MT. LASSEN ERUPTION— By Richard H. Boerker 51 



With four illustrations. 



FOREST PRODUCTS FEDERATION— By E. A. Sterling 55 



THE ANNUAL MEETING 57 



THE FOREST RANGER'S PRAYER 58 



MORTGAGING NATIONAL FORESTS— By Henry S. Graves 59 



THREE MILES OF FLAME— By Allen Chamberlain 64 



EDITORIAL 68 



THE CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 69 



FOREST NOTES 75 



FOREST EDUCATION IN MARYLAND 78 



CURRENT LITERATURE 79 



AMERICAN FORESTRY is published monthly by the American Forestry Association 



Subscription price, two dollars per year; single copies, twenty cents. 



Copyright 1914, by the American Forestry Association 



Entered as second-class mail matter December 24, 1909, at the Post-office at Washington, under the 



Act of March 3, 1879. 



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