CANADIAN DEPARTMENT 



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MODERN 

 PROPAGATION 



OF 



TREE FRUITS 



By 

 B. S. BROWN, M.S. 



PROFESSOR OF HORTICULTURE. UNIVERSITY 

 OF MAINE 



This book includes those portions 

 of propagation which are in gen- 

 eral use. It covers the following 

 subjects: Seed for propagation; 

 Growing for Seedlings; The Nurs- 

 ery; The Different Budding 

 Operations; Grafting Operations; 

 Propagation by Cutting; The 

 After Treatment of Nursery 

 Stock; Some General Considera- 

 tions. 

 185 pages, 5X734) illustrated. 

 Cloth, $1.25 net. 



Jusi Published 



FARM 

 FORESTRY 



By 



JOHN ARDEN FERGUSON, 



A.M., M.F. 



PROFESSOR OF FORESTRY, THE PENNSYLVANIA 

 STATE COLLEGE 



This book covers the subject of 



forestry as applied to the farm 



and woodlot. The subjects in- 



' eluded are those of essential 



interest to the agriculturist. The 



establishment of the woodlot, 



both by seeding or planting, and 



by natural methods, is discussed, 



with hints as to the best trees to 



plant in different sections. 



249 pages, 534 X 8, illustrated. 



Cloth, $1.25 net. 



USE THIS COUPOni 



John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 



432 Fourth Avenue. New York City 

 Gentlemen: Kindly send me for ten days' 

 free examination, the books indicated below: 



Brown-Tree Fruits 

 Ferguson-Farm Forestry 



It is understood that I am to remit the price of 

 these books, or return them, postpaid, within 

 ten days after their receipt. 



Name 



Address 



Member of 



( 1 ndicate here if you are a member of the American 

 Forestry Association. If not. Indicate the forestry 

 society with which you are connected.) 



Position; reference 



(Indicate which.) (Not required of Society Members.) 



AF-IO-16 



Abitibbi Paper Mills Not Burned 

 Newspaper reports of the great forest 

 fires in Ontario, Canada, some of which 

 were quoted in the August issue of Ameri- 

 can Forestry, declared that at Iroquois Falls 

 the great paper mills of the Abitibbi Power 

 and Paper Company were destroyed. It is 

 gratifying to announce upon information 

 from the officers of the Company that the 

 mills were not destroyed nor injured in the 

 least, that only a few buildings were burned, 

 and that there was no loss of life at Iroquois 

 Falls. The statement is also made that the 

 mills are not owned, as the newspapers said, 

 by Chicago Tribune capital. 



Book Reviews 



Farm Forestry by John Arden Ferguson, 

 A.M., M.F., Professor of Forestry, at the 

 Pennsylvania State College. 249 pages. 

 Price, $1.25. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 

 New York. 



This book covers the subject of forestry 

 as applied to the farm woodlot, and is espe- 

 cially intended for text-book use in agricul- 

 tural colleges and high schools. It is the 

 outgrowth of lectures delivered to agricul- 

 tural students throughout several years. 

 The author's aim has been to treat the sub- 

 ject from the broad standpoint of the wood- 

 lots in the great plains and prairie regions 

 as well as in more eastern regions. With a 

 teaching experience both in the central west 

 (he was formerly Professor of Forestry at 

 the University of Missouri), and in the east, 

 he is in a position to appreciate the varying 

 requirements in the different sections of the 

 country. The subjects included are those 

 of essential interest to the agriculturalist. 

 The establishment of the woodlot, both by 

 seeding or planting and by natural methods, 

 is discussed with hints as to the best trees to 

 plant in different sections. The care and 

 protection of the woodlot is treated and also 

 the very important subject of woodlot man- 

 agement. A conception of the woodlot as 

 forest capital is given with suggestions as 

 to the amount of wood to remove annually 

 and the methods of securing a sustained 

 annual yield. Chapters are also devoted to 

 the harvesting and marketing of woodlot 

 products and to wood preservation. In the 

 appendix, there is included a suggested list 

 of practical exercises for a course in farm 

 forestry. 



The Woodcraft Girls at Camp. By Lil- 

 lian Elizabeth Roy. Price $1.25, George 

 H. Doran Company, New York. 

 This is the story of the frolics and trib- 

 ulations of an actual outdoor camp of 

 Woodcraft Girls, the formation of the band, 

 their ceremonies, life and sport on a wood- 



TIMBER CRUISING BOOKLETS 



Biltmore Timber Tables. Including solution of 

 problems in forest finance. 



Sou them Timber Tables. How to estimate Southern 

 Pine, Southern White Cedar, and Southern Appala- 

 chian Timber — Spruce pulpwood. Hemlock bark. 

 Chestnut oak bark. Chestnut tannic acid wood. 

 Postpaid, 25 cents each 



HOWARD R. KRINBILL 



Forest Engineer Newbern, N. C. 



land farm in Jersey. Full description of 

 equipment used, woodcraft rites, member- 

 ship, etc. (accurate in every detail) ; writ- 

 ten by a member of the Woodcraft League 

 founded by Earnest Thompson-Seton. 



Mrs. Roy is well known as a writer of 

 books for young people. She has told a 

 jolly, rollicking story of more than ordin- 

 ary value because of its complete and de- 

 tailed description of the Woodcraft cus- 

 toms and instructions as to membership, 

 etc. 



Canadian 



Department 



By Ellwood Wilson 



Secretary, Canadian Society of 

 Forest Engineers 



During the forest fire at Abitibbi, we 

 are informed that the wood piled up for 

 winter use by the Abitibbi Pulp and Paper 

 Company was burnt and that they will 

 have to at once commence to cut a fresh 

 supply. During the fire all the people in 

 the neighborhood were compelled to take 

 shelter in the mill, a large, concrete-steel 

 building, which fortunately lay in a little 

 depression of the ground and gave protec- 

 tion from the fire and smoke. 



Dean Adams, of the Faculty of Applied 

 Science of McGill University, Montreal, has 

 been visiting Grand'mere, to look over the 

 plantations, nurseries and experimental for- 

 estry work of the Laurentide Company, 

 Limited. Mr. Adams is a member of the 

 Dominion Conservation Commission and 

 has written a good deal on conservation in 

 general. 



Price Bros. & Company, Ltd., have se- 

 cured funds for additions to their mills. 

 The new newsprint mill will be ready in 

 February of next year with a capacity of 

 62,000 tons per annum and the pulp pro- 

 duction will be increased to 55,000 tons 

 per annum. 



The St. Maurice Lumber Company, of 

 Three Rivers, P. Q., have just finished con- 

 structing fifteen miles of telephone line 

 connecting up their headquarters camp with 

 their river driving depots. 



Nine fires, which either partially or 

 wholly destroyed woodworking plants, were 

 reported during the past month. 



Sealed tenders were asked for by the 

 Minister of Lands for British Columbia 

 during July for the purchase of License 

 No. 90, to cut 7,130,000 feet of Douglas fir, 

 hemlock, cedar, white pine and balsam and 

 535 cords of shingle bolts. Three years will 

 be allowed for the removal of the timber. 



Messrs. D. A. Macdonald and G. R. Mel- 

 rose have been elected associate members of 



