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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Current Literature 



MONTHLY LIST FOR DECEMBER, 

 1915 



(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. 



India — Forest dept. Quinquennial review of 

 forest administration in British India for 

 the period 1909-10 to 1913-14, to which 

 is appended the annual return of forest 

 statistics for the year 1913-14. 43p. 

 diagr. Simla, 1915. 



Forest Education 



Georgia, University of— State college of agri- 

 culture — Extension division. Corre- 

 spondence courses in agriculture: farm 

 forestry, lesson 1. — The tree. 8 p. 

 Athens, Ga., 1915. 



Idaho, University of — School of forestry'. 

 Announcements concerning the courses 

 to be offered in forestry. 1915-1916. 16 p. 

 il. Moscow, Id., 1915. 



Minnesota, University of— College of forestry. 

 Announcement, 1915-1916. 26 p. Minne- 

 apolis, Minn., 1915. 



Montana, University of— Forest school. Short 

 course for forest rangers: announcement, 

 7th, 1916. Missoula, Mont., 1915. 



Washington, University of — College of for- 

 estry. Announcement, 8th session, Jan- 

 uary 3 to March 28, 1916; practical short 

 courses in forestry, logging and lumber- 

 ing. 4 p. Seattle, Wash., 1915. 



Forest Description 



Barton, J. E. The forests ofiKentucky. 2 p. 

 Frankfort, Ky., 1915. (Kentucky— State 

 forester. Circular 3.) 



Forest Investigations 



Japan — Dept. of agriculture and commerce — 

 Bureau of forestry. Extracts from the 

 bulletin of the forest experiment station, 

 MeguTO, Tok-yo. 221 p. il., pk, diagr. 

 Tokyo, Japan, 1915. 



Studies of species 



Mattoon, Wilbur R. Shortleaf pine: its 

 economic importance and forest manage- 

 ment. 67p. il., pi. Wash., D. C, 1915. 

 (U. S. — Dept. of agriculture. Bulletin 

 308.) 



North Carolina— Geological and economic 

 survey. Loblolly or North Caroline pine. 

 2 p. Chapel Hill, N. C, 1915. (Press 

 bulletin 149.) 



Stuckey, H. P. Pecans: varieties, influences 

 of climate, soil, and stock on cion. 30 p. 

 il. Experiment, Ga., 1915. (Georgia- 

 Agricultural experiment station. Bulle- 

 tin 116.) 



Forest Influences 



Wicks, Moye. Deforestation and reforesta- 

 tion as affecting climate, rain and pro- 

 duction. 11 p. Austin, Tex., 1915. 



(Texas — Dept. of agriculture, 

 n. ser., no. 17.) 



Bulletin, 



Forest Mensuration 



McKenzie, H. E. A discussion of log rules: 

 their limitations and suggestions for cor- 

 rection. 56 p. Sacramento, Cal., 1915. 

 (California— State board of forestry. 

 Bulletin no. 5.) 



Forest Protection 



Insects 



Glenn, Pressley A. The San Jos6 scale. 

 24 p. ik, pi. Urbana, 111., 1915. (Illinois 

 — Agricultural experiment station. Cir- 

 cular no. 180.) 



Diseases 



Fawcett, Howard S. Melaxuma of the wal- 

 nut, Juglans regia: a preliminary report. 

 16 p. il. Berkeley, Cal., 1915. (California 

 — Agricultural experiment station. Bul- 

 letin 261.) 



Smoke and vapors 



Holmes, J . A. , and others. Report of the Selby 



smelter commission. 528 p. il., pk, 



maps, diagr. Wash.. D. C, 1915. (U. 



S.— Dept. of the interior — Bureau of 



mines. Bulletin 98.) 



Forest Legfislation 



United States— Dept. of agriculture— Forest 

 service. State forestry laws; Idaho, 

 through regular session,', 1915. 5 p. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. 



United States— Dept. of agriculture— Forest 

 service. State forestry laws ; New Jersey, 

 through regular session, 1915. 7 p. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. 



Forest Administration 



Femow, Benihard Eduard. Cooperation in 

 forestry. 9 p. Ottawa, Canada, Com- 

 mission of consen.'ation, 1915. 



Kentucky— State forester. Progress of for- 

 estry in Kentucky. 6 p. Frankfort, 

 Ky., 1915. 



United States — Dept. of agriculture — Forest 

 service. Government forest work. 19 p. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. 



United States— Dept. of agriculture — Forest 

 service. National forests by districts. 

 9 p. map. Wash., D. C, 1915. 



Forest Utilization 



Forest products federation. Report of com- 

 mittees 1 and 3. Chicago, 111., 1915. 



Lumber industry. 



Smith, Franklin H. Teak in Siam and Indo- 



China. 21 p. Wash., D. C, 1915. 



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



foreign and domestic commerce. Special 



agents series no. 108.) 



Wood-using industries 



Lockwood's directory of the paper, stationery 



and allied trades. 41st ed. N. Y., 



Lockwood tr. jour, co., 1916. 



Forest by-products 



Vermont Maple Sugar Makers' Association 

 Proceedings of the 21st annual meeting, 

 January 6-7, 1914. 48 p. St. Albans, 

 Vt., 1914. 



Auxiliary Subjects 



Irrigation 



United States — Reclamation service. Coop- 

 erative investigations in California: U. S. 

 Reclamation service in cooperation with 

 the Northern California irrigation associa- 

 tion. — Report on Lower Pit River project. 

 55 p. pi., maps. Wash., D. C, 1915. 



Erosion 



Miller, M. F. The control of soil washing. 

 12p. il. Columbia, Mo., 1915. (Miss- 

 ouri — Agricultural experiment station. 

 Circular 78.) 



Periodical Articles 



Miscellaneous periodicals 



Annals of botany, Oct., 1915. — On the ribbing 

 of the seed of Ginkgo, by M. F. A. 

 Affourtit and_H. C. C. La Ri^-i^re, 

 p. 591-5. 

 Botanical Gazette, Nov., 1915. — The influence 

 of the tannin content of the host plant 

 on Endothia parasitica and related 

 species, by Melville Thurston Cook, and 

 Guy West Wilson, p. 346-61; Studies of 

 Diospyros kaki, by Kono Yasui, p. 

 362-73; The influence of ether on the 

 growth of Endothia, by Melville Thurs- 

 ton Cook and Guy West Wilson.p. 412-13. 

 Bulletin of the Pan American union, Nov., 

 1915. — The saman or rain tree, p. 680-4. 

 Canadian magazine, Nov., 1915. — Our great 

 national waste, by F. M. Turner, Jr., 

 p. 1-8. 

 Conservation, Dec, 1915. — Forestry' in Japan, 



by A. Nakai, p. 47. 

 Country gentleman, Nov. 20, 1915. — Planting 



idle pastures, by F. F. Moon, p. 1773. 

 Far eastern review, Oct., 1915. — The defores- 

 tation of China, p. 167-70. 

 Gardeners' chronicle, Oct. 30, 1915.— Cupres- 

 sus lawsoniana, by A. Bruce Jackson, 

 p. 272. 

 Harper's weekly, Oct. 9, 1915.— Fire fighters, 



by W. P. Lawson, p. 350-1. 

 House and garden, Nov., 1915. — Forestry at 

 home; the work to do in any woodlot, 

 by F. von Hoffman, p. 15-17, 60. 

 In the open, Oct., 19 15.— The Norway spruce : 

 its value, how to plant it, facts about 

 growth, advice on cultivation, by George 

 H. Wirt, p. 43-7. 

 Reclamation record, Oct., 1915.— Tree plant- 

 ing on the Umatilla project, p. 466-7. 

 Science, Nov. 19, 1915.— The effect of cyanide 

 on the locust-borer and the locust tree, by 

 Wesley P. Flint, p. 726-7. 

 Technical world magazine, July, 1915. — 

 Making the plains into forests, by A. 

 Fullerton, p. 647-8. 

 Technical world magazine, Aug., 1915. — 

 Finding uses for waste wood, by Rend 

 Bache, p. 757-9. 



