American Forestry 



The Magazine of the American Forestry 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 



May CONTENTS 1915 



COVER PICTURE— Water-falls in Yosemite Park. 



THE GREAT WAR AND GERMAN FORESTS— By Poultney Bigelow 607 



With four illustrations. 



WAR NOTES FROM FRENCH FORESTS 612 



FLUSHING'S OLDEST TREE— By Everett P. Martin 614 



With one illustration. 



TEXAS FORESTRY LAW 615 



WOODLOT IMPROVEMENT 616 



TREE FRUITS AND FLOWERS— By Warren H. Miller 617 



With ten illustrations. 



JOSEPH N. TEAL 626 



DR. B. E. FERNOW 627 



LAKING— By W. R. Brown 628 



With eleven illustrations. 



GEORGIA STATE FOREST SCHOOL 636 



THE PINE-SHOOT MOTH 637 



With seven illustrations. 

 WOMEN'S WORK IN CONSERVATION— By Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman 641 



With one illustration. 

 IS THIS THE LARGEST ELM ? 643 



With one illustration. 

 DEVELOPING BRITISH COLUMBL\ 644 



With one illustration. 

 HON. CURTIS GUILD DEAD 645 



With one illustration. 



MAKING PRIVATE FORESTRY PAY— By James Upham 647 



A SLEDDING LOG HAULER 648 



With two illustrations. 

 COLORADO SCHOOL OF FORESTRY 650 



With two illustrations. 

 A CLERK'S WORK ON A NATIONAL FOREST— By Julia T. Shinn 653 



With two illustrations. 



THE FORESTRY ISSUES IN THE LAKE STATES— By H. H. Chapman 656 



BUILDING BIRD HOUSES— By Ned Dearborn 660 



With forty illustrations. 



EDITORIAL 670 



FOREST NOTES 672 



CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 674 



CURRENT LITERATURE 676 



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w Copyright 1915, by the American Forestry Association 



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



^ Act of March 3. 1879 



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