American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



. PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



Herman H. Chapman Frederick S. Underh>ill 



Ernest A. Sterling John E. Rhodes 



S. T. Dana S. N. Spring 



April CONTENTS 1918 



COVER — Sierra Point, Yosemite Valley, California 



FORESTERS IN THE GERMAN ARMY— By T. R. Helms 527 



With three illustrations. 

 SWEDISH FOREST FIRE INSURANCE, From " Skogen "—Translated by C. A. 



Lindstrom 531 



UNCLE SAM IN THE MOVIES— By C. J. Blanchard 532 



With thirteen illustrations. 

 ANOTHER LARGE ELM 541 



With one illustration. 

 FORESTS AND RECREATION— By Warren H. Miller 542 



With six illustrations. 

 HENRY S. DRINKER, LL.D., President of the American Forestry Association 550 



With one photograph. 

 CAPT. J. B. WHITE, Director of the American Forestry Association 551 



With one photograph. 

 CHARLES W. ELIOT, Vice-President of the American Forestry Association 552 



With one photograph. 

 BOMBARDMENT OF PAPEETE— By A Tahitian of High Rank 553 



With six illustrations. 



FORESTRY IN WISCONSIN— By E. M. Griffith, State Forester 559 



PHILIPPINE ISLANDS' FORESTER 563 



With one photograph. 

 CHINESE TREES DO WELL HERE 564 



With four illustrations. 

 JAMESTOWN 100 ACRE LOT 567 



With four illustrations. 

 WOODLOT FORESTRY— By S. B. Detwiler 571 



With four illustrations. 

 O. T. SWAN'S NEW POSITION 575 



With one photograph. 



THE AMERICAN LUMBER MARKET— By E. B. Hazen (Part II) 576 



A TALE OF THE TRAIL— By Matt Daly— Poem 581 



CARE OF BIRD HOUSES— By Ned Dearborn 582 



With eight illustrations. 

 FOREST FIRE WARNINGS 587 



Showing eight samples. 



ROOM FOR 5,000,000 SHADE TREES 590 



SELECTING TREES AND SHRUBS— Lists covering all sections of the United States.. . 591 

 NOTICE OF MEETING OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION IN SAN 



FRANCISCO 593 



CONNECTICUT FORESTRY MEETINGS 594 



EDITORIAL: 



No Politics in This Forester's Work 596 



Forestry and Independence 595 



CANADIAN DEPARTMENT— By Ellwood Wilson 597 



BRITISH COLUMBIA NOTES 599 



FOREST NOTES 600 



BOOK REVIEWS: 



Our National Defense, The Patriotism of Peace — By George H. Maxwell 602 



Some Lumber Problems — Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers Associa- 

 tion 602 



CURRENT LITERATURE 603 



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-oflSce at Washington, under the 



Act of March 3. 1879. 



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