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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



What Readers Think 



" We have certainlj- enjoyed to the fullest 

 measure the wonderfully rich and varied 

 departments of the truly beautiful Ameri- 

 can Forestry. I regard it as especially in- 

 teresting and inspiring to all naturalists, 

 foresters and arboriculturists, and person- 

 ally I wish to heartily thank the editorial 

 staff for the very high standard of their 

 work." Ch.^rles S. M.\n.v, 



Hatboro, Pa. 



" Glad to see you expand and interest a 

 greater audience, for technical forestry 

 alone cannot hope to hold a general public 

 indefinitely." Filibert Roth, 



Ann Arbor, Mich. 



" Last Saturday I bought the February 

 edition of the American Forestry maga- 

 zine quite by accident, but am so delighted 

 with it that I am herewith sending a P. O. 

 money order for $3.00, for which please 

 credit me with a Subscribing Membership 

 in the American Forestry Association." 

 Lyle L. Allen, 

 Brooklyn, N. V. 



" I am glad to hear that The American 

 Academy of Arborists has chosen Ameri- 

 can Forestry as its official organ. Allow 

 me to congratulate you upon the splendid 

 magazine that you are now putting out. It 

 is a great improvement over the earlier 

 forms. It is certainly a good deal more 

 attractive in appearance and the subject 

 matter is equally more attractive." 



Charles S. Scott, 

 Manhattan, Kan. 



"American Forestry is grand. In 

 variety of subjects, method of presentation, 

 and whole ' make up ' it is on a high plane 

 — almost ideal. You are certainly to be 

 congratulated. If the present standard is 

 maintained, the subscription list can scarcely 

 fail to increase." 



William W. Lazenby, 

 Columbus, Ohio. 



" I surely am greatly interested in my " I have received American Forestry, 



magazine, and it is becoming wonderfully and am much pleased with it. It is well 



attractive and informing." worth the subscription price." 



Mrs. D. Willard. .\. K. Moody, 



Riverside. Cal. .Seattle, IVash. 



" I wish to congratulate you most heartily 

 on the continued attractiveness of the maga- 

 zine. It is certainly a very effective publi- 

 cation and does the Association and your- 

 self great credit." 



W. B. Greeley, 

 Washington, D. C. 



'■ Perhaps half my time is spent on publi- 

 cations of one sort or another, and I wish 

 to take this opportunity to say to you that 

 you are making a wonderfully attractive 

 and valuable magazine of American For- 

 estry, and I wish you all possible success." 

 Joseph W. T.\tum, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



" I am greatly pleased with the improved 

 appearance and valuable contents of Ameri- 

 can Forestry." 



J. D. Lacey, 

 Chicago, III. 



" The illustrations are exceptionally fine 

 and the articles are such as would appeal 

 to and interest all. The magazine fills a 

 long-felt want in American literature." 

 W. D. LUDWIG, 

 Joliiistoicn, Pa. 



" The American Forestry magazine has 

 within the last year improved in leaps and 

 bounds. The leading monthly articles on 

 the identification and characteristics, the 

 uses and products of our various trees, are 

 very instructive, and prove beyond a doubt 

 that forests are as necessary to the life of a 

 nation as its foreign trade. For, after all, 

 the finished or raw product has a direct 

 relation to the forest — in fact, they are first 

 cousins. I sincerely hope that the good 

 work of the Association may continue, and 

 that our present legislators may have the 

 vista of America to-morrow." 



■ E. Wheeler Whitmore, 



Nezv York City. 



Inspect Logging Operations 



To give the students of Wyman's School 

 of the Woods (Munising, Michigan) an op- 

 portunity to study the different logging 

 operations as actually carried on in the 

 north woods, the entire school went on a 

 week's packing trip through the Upper 

 Peninsula of Michigan and inspected some 

 of the largest camps now in operation in 

 that region and got many good " pointers," 

 some of which can never be taught in the 

 class-room. 



Planting Shade Trees 



" We have planted a number of orna- 

 mental shade trees on our country court- 

 house grounds with dynamite," writes C. N. 

 Morton, County Commissioner, Sterling, 

 Colorado. " Tlie soil was heavy clay loam. 

 The result of the action of the dynamite in 

 loosening and shattering the soil to a great 

 depth was very marked. The trees planted 

 in these dynamited holes made a surpris- 

 ingly greater growth than trees planted 

 previously in spade dug holes. 



The Pocono Association 



I The annual meeting of the Pocono Pro- 



I tective Fire Association of i\Ionroe County, 



I Pennsylvania, was held at Stroudsburg re- 



I cently. Receipts amounting to $1,416.69 and 



I expenditures amounting to $1,276.69 left a 



I substantial balance in the hands of the 



I Treasurer. This favorable condition was 



I due, in some degree to the cooperative 



I agreement existing between the State De- 



I partment of Forestry and the Association, 



I under Act of Assembly, by which the State 



I returns to the Association one-half of the 



I amount paid out by the Association for 



I forest protective work. About six hun- 



I dred dollars was returned by the State 



I under this agreement. Fifty-six new mem- 



I bers were elected during the year, the 



I roll of membership amounting to 244. For- 



I est fires, both spring and fall (to Novem- 



I ber 16), for the whole county, burned over 



I only 582 acres, a marked contrast to the 



I year 1915 when over 12,000 acres were 



I burned over in the month of April. The 



j general report of the directors enumer- 



i ated a series of activities that plainly 



I show-ed progress and prosperity for this 



I private forest protective organization. 



Tree-Planting Campaign 



I In connection with a tree-planting cam- 

 I paign recently instituted by the Rotary 

 I Club of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, an illus- 

 I trated lecture entitled " Trees as a Mu- 

 I nicipal Asset " was given in the Auditorium 

 I of the Pottsville Y. M. C. A., by E. D. 

 I Kains, through whose efforts the Pennsyl- 

 ; vania Shade-tree Act of 1907 was adopted 

 i in his home town, Wyomissing, near Read- 

 ; ing, Pennsylvania, and who is a very ear- 

 ; nest advocate of the principle of municipal 

 I control of shade-trees. The lecture has 

 been given in a number of Pennsylvania 

 towns and cities, and includes a very com- 

 plete series of lantern slides showing the 

 various activities of a municipal shade- 

 tree department, such as proper methods of 

 planting, tree butchery vs. scientific prun- 

 ing, injury of trees by horses, tree sur- 

 gery and the control of insect pests. The 

 ten best species for street planting were 

 illustrated by a series of beautifully colored 

 slides, including some of the finest streets 

 in -America and Europe. 



A Forest Enthusiast Dead 



Forestry lost an enthusiastic supporter in 

 the death on November 22 of Jacob Nolde 

 of Reading, Pennsylvania, a life member of 

 the American Forestry Association. Mr. 

 Nolde did much for the forestry movement 

 in Berks County, started two years ago and 

 now so successfully conducted by the Berks 

 County Conservation Association, while the 

 forest planting on his own estate, under the 

 charge of \\'illiam G. Kohout, is one of the 

 most extensive in the east and is a striking 

 example of what can be done by intelli- 

 gent reforestation. 



