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This means that 93 per cent has been 

 burned over at least once during the past 

 century. About 8.5 per cent carrys timber 

 from 50 to 100 years old, the average age 

 being about TO years, while about 14 per 

 cent bears timber of small pole size averag- 

 ing 23 years old. In some places the soil 

 cover has been entirely burnt off and in 

 other places the heavy slash endangers the 

 young growth and the little remaining old 

 forest. The damage has been about eight 

 million dollars. 



Current Literature 



Some tests of the weight of freshly cut 

 woods have just been made by the Lauren- 

 tide Company and show that brown ash 

 weighs 50.26 pounds per cubic foot, yellow 

 birch 64.40 pounds, white birch 55.62 

 pounds, elm 71.31 pounds, and sugar maple 

 73.36 pounds. 



British Columbia Notes. 



Ever since war broke out members of 

 the British Columbia Forest Service have 

 been leaving on furlough for the bigger 

 job over seas, and they are still doing so. 

 Out of the regular or permanent staff, 

 which in the summer of 1914, before the 

 war, numbered about 170, including female 

 clerks and stenographers, almost one-third 

 have enlisted to date. In addition, over 

 twenty members of the temporary or sum- 

 mer staff of guards, patrolmen, etc., are 

 known to have enlisted, and it is very 

 probable that as many more have joined 

 of whom no information is now available. 

 The recent enlistments are as follows : A. 

 H. Black, Jack Thompson, O. J. Sangar, 

 W. Ross Flumerfelt, E. F. W. Heath, R. 

 Jobson, J. J. Donnelly, N. F. Murray, R. 

 L. Condy, J. R. Chamberlin, Clarence Fer- 

 ris, H. S. Laughlin, G. R. A. Ball, G. H. 

 Llewellyn, and C. I. McKenzie. 



Mr. P. Z. Caverhill, Deputy District For- 

 ester in the Vancouver Forest District, has 

 accepted the position of chief forester for 

 New Brunswick. Mr. Caverhill is a native 

 of that Province, a graduate of the Uni- 

 versity of New Brunswick, and has had a 

 wide experience and been a valued officer 

 both in the Dominion and British Colum- 

 bia forest service. His many friends will 

 wish him every success in his new work. 



Mr. J. D. Gilmour, recently District For- 

 ester at Cranbrook, has been transferred 

 to the head office, Victoria. 



Mr. H. B. Murray, formerly District For- 

 ester, Kamloops, is now in charge of the 

 Cranbrook District, and Mr. E. B. Prowd 

 is acting district forester for the Kamloops 

 District. 



Mr. L. R. Andrews, formerly district for- 

 ester at Vernon, is now in England, a lieu- 

 tenant in the Canadian Expeditionary 

 Force. Mr. G. P. Melrose is now acting 

 district forester for Vernon District. 



MONTHLY LIST FOR JANUARY, 1916 



(Books and periodicals indexed in the 

 library' of the United States Forest Service) 



FORESTRY AS A WHOLE 



Proceedings and reports of associations, forest 

 officers, etc. 



Georgia state forest school — Forest club. 

 Forest club annual, v. 1, 1916. 73 p. il. 

 Athens, Ga., 1916. 



Hawaiian sugar planters' association — Com- 

 mittee on forestr\'. Report for the year 

 ending September 30, 1915. 22 p. 

 Honolulu, 1915. 



Forest Education 



Forest schools 



India — Imperial forest college, Dehra Dun. 



Progress report for the year 1914-15. 



24 p. Calcutta, 1915. 

 Yale forest school. Prospectus, 1915-16. 



33 p. New Haven, Conn., 1915. 



Forest Description 



Doucet, J. Andr^. Timber conditions in 

 the Smoky river valley and Grande- 

 Prairie country. 55 p. il., map. Ottawa, 

 1915. (Canada — Dept. of the interior — 

 Forestry branch. Bulletin S3.) 



Silvical Studies of Species 



Guttenberg, Adolf von. Wachstum und 

 ertrag der fichte im hochgebirge. 153 p. 

 il., tables. Wien & Leipzig, F. Deuticke, 

 1915. 



Lamb, George N. Willows; their growth, use 

 and importance. 52 p. pi. Wash., 

 D. C, 1915. (U. S.— Dept. of agricul- 

 tiu-e. Bulletin 316.) 



Sterrett, Wm. D. The ashes; their char- 

 acteristics and management. 88 p. pi., 

 map. Wash., D. C, 1915. (U. S.— 

 Dept. of agriculture. Bulletin 299.) 



Forest Protection 



Insects 



Garman, H. The locust borer, Cylene 

 robiniae, and other insect enemies of the 

 black locust. 34 p. pi. Frankfort, 

 Ky., State forester, 1915. 



Imms, A. D. On the structure and biology of 

 Tachardia lacca, with observations on 

 certain insects predaceous or parasitic 

 upon it. 42 p. pi. Calcutta, 1915. 

 (Indian forest memoirs, v. 3, pt. 1.) 



Fire 



California — State board of forestry. A hand- 

 book of forest protection; California 

 forest fire laws, 1915. 87 p. Sacra- 

 mento, Cal., 1915. 



Forest Administration 



Maury, Mrs. Mason. Forestry for Kentucky. 



3 p. Frankfort, Ky., n. d. (Kentucky 



— State forester. Circular no. 1.) 

 United States — Dept. of agriculture — Forest 



service. Report of the forester, 1914-15. 



31 p. Wash., D. C, 1915. 



United States — Dept. of agriculture — Forest 

 service. Water power projects, tele- 

 phone, telegraph, power transmission 

 lines on the national forests. 90 p. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. 



United States — National forest reservation 

 commission. Report for the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 1915. 23 p. maps. 

 Wash., D. C, 1916. 



Forest Utilization 



Arnold, John R. Rattan supply of the 

 Philippines. 40 p. Wash., D. C:, 1915. 

 (U. S. — Dept. of commerce — Bureau of 

 foreign and domestic commerce. Special 

 agents series, no. 95.) 



Lumber industry 



Smith, Franklin H. AustraUan markets for 

 American lumber. 48 pp. Wash., D. 

 C, 1915. (U. S. — Dept. of commerce — 

 Bureau of foreign and domestic com- 

 merce. Special agents series, no. 109.) 



Stailey, S. C, comp. Lumber inspection 

 rules; containing rules governing the 

 manufacture and inspection of different 

 kinds of lumber, weights of lumber 

 comparative strength of building timbers 

 and other information useful to buyer 

 and consumer of lumber. 234 p. il. 

 N.Y., A. D. Beeker, 1915. 



United States — Interstate commerce commis- 

 sion. In the matter of rates on and 

 classification of lumber and lumber 

 products, docket no. 8131. Answers of 

 the lumber manufacturing, lumber whole- 

 saling, lumber retailing and allied inter- 

 ests to questions asked by the Interstate 

 cornmerce commission under date of 

 Aug. 2, 1915. 121 p. Chicago, 111., 1915. 



Wood using industries 



Nellis, J. C. & Harris, J. T. Wood-using 



industries of West Virginia. 144 p. 



Charleston, W. Va., Dept. of agriculture, 



1915. 



Auxiliary Subjects 



Description and travel 



American geographical society. Memorial 

 volume of the transcontinental excursion 

 of 1912. 407 p. il.,pl. New York, 1915. 



Parks 



American scenic and historic preservation 



society. Twentieth annual report, 1915. 



887 p. pi. N. Y., 1915. 

 Buffalo, N. Y. — Park commissioners. Forty- 

 sixth aimual report, 1914-15. 118 p. il. 



Buffalo, 1915. 

 United States — Dept. of the interior. The 



Wind Cave national park, season of 1915; 



general information. 12 p. il., maps. 



Wash., D. C, 1915. 



Water supply and irrigation 



Oregon — State engineer. Water resources of 



the state of Oregon. 353 p. il., map. 



Salem, Ore., 1915. (Bulletin no. 4.) 



