AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 

 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



Herman H. Chapman 

 Ernest A. vSterling 



S. T. Dana 



Frederick S. Underhill 



John E. Rhodes 

 S. N. Spring 



August 1916. Vol. 22 



CONTENTS 



No. 272 



The Mockernut Hickory — Cover Picture. 



Photo Ijy Rome^n Hough. 

 The Hickories — Identification and Characteristics — By 



Samuel B. Detwiler 451 



With six ilhistrations. 



Commercial Uses of the Hickory 455 



With three iUustrations. 



Yellowstone National Park — By Mark Daniels 458 



With six illustrations. 



The Bird Department— By A. A. Allen 464 



The Coloration of Birds. 

 The Classification of Birds. 

 With nine illustrations. 

 The Alternate Hosts of the White Pine Blister Rust— By 



Lawrence R. Grose 469 



Witli eighteen illustrations. 



White Pines of Lenox Menaced 472 



With one illustri-ition. 

 Three Million Dollars for New England and Appalachian 



Forests 473 



Forestry for Boys and Girls — By Bristow Adams 474 



About Swimmin' Holes and Such. 

 Southern Floods and their Forestry Lessons — By Herman H. 



Chapman 476 



With nine illustrations. 

 The New Louisiana Forestry Law 479 



An Example in Conservation Work 4tS0 



With seven illustrations. 



Washington's Trees Criticized— By Frank A. Cutting 482 



Boys, Gims, Birds and Trees 483 



With two illustrations. 

 Forest Conservation — By Joshua L. Baily 484 



With one photograph. 



Ornamental and Shade Trees — By J. J. Levison 485 



Taking Care of Shade Trees. 



With three illustrations. 

 A Logging Engineering Course 488 



With one photograph. 

 The First Record of a Sequoia — By Donald Bruce 489 



With one illustration. 



Two Hundred Dead in Forest Fires 492 



The Nation's Wishing Tree 493 



Forestry Board's Secretary — By General C. C. Andrews 494 



Editorial 495 



The Flaw in Indiana's vState Forestry Organization. 



The Vital Issue. 



Ten Million Dollars for Forest Roads. 



Lumber Uses— By Warren B. Bullock 498 



Wood Preserving Department — By E. A. Sterling 499 



Canadian Department — By EUwood Wilson 502 



Current Literature 503 



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