American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestri; Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



Herman H. Chapman Frederick S. Underbill 



Ernest A. Sterling John E. Rhodes 



S. T. Dana S. N. Spring 



March CONTENTS 1915 



COVER— Falls on Rock Creek, Polk County, Tennessee. 



THE GREAT WAR'S DESTRUCTION OF FRENCH FORESTS— By Jean-Paul Alaux, 



A.D.G '.. : 155 



With eleven illustrations. 



THE CRISIS IN NEW YORK— By H. H. Chapman 168 



FORESTRY AT THE EXPOSITION 171 



HUNTING ON THE NATIONAL FORESTS— By Herbert A. Smith 172 



With twelve illustrations. 



FARMERS' WEEK AT CORNELL 183 



With one illustration. 



JOHN MUIR— By George B. Sudworth 184 



With one illustration. 



BERMUDA'S LITTLE TREES— By W. R. Brown 186 



With twelve illustrations. 



BEAUTIFYING BATTLE CREEK 198 



With one illustration. 



TREE PLANTING IN THREE BOROUGHS— By J. Gerry Curtis 199 



With one illustration. 



MORE DURABLE PINE POSTS 200 



ANDREW CARNEGIE, Vice President of the American Forestry Association 201 



WILLIAM H. TAFT, Vice President of the American Forestry Association 202 



VIRGINIA'S STATE FORESTER 203 



With one illustration. 



MRS. EMMONS CROCKER— By Lydia Adams- Williams 204 



With one illustration. 



WISCONSIN'S FORESTRY TANGLE 206 



AIDING TIMBER OWNERS 207 



THE AMERICAN LUMBER MARKET— Part I, By E. B. Hazen 208 



TO PROMOTE THE USE OF WOOD 213 



FOREST FIRE LOSSES $677,816 214 



EDITORIAI 215 



CANADIAN DEPARTMENT— By EUwood Wilson 217 



WITH THE FORESTERS 219 



FOREST NOTES 220 



BOOKS RECEIVED 222 



CURRENT LITERATURE 223 



AMERICAN FORESTRY is published monthly by the American Forestry Association 



Subscription price, three dollars per year; single copies, twenty-five cents. 



Copyright 1915, 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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