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138S. Pettis, C. R. Legislative machinery for enforcement of private forestry measures. 

 Jour. Forestry 18:6-8. 1920. — An attempt should be made to make lumbering operations and 

 cut over lands more safe from fire. This may be done in New York by leaving strips and 

 bands of uncut timber along roadways and creeks to create fire breaks, by the construction of 

 6re lines, by burning the slash. Demons! raf ion forests and foresters are needed to show what 

 can be accomplished. — E. N. Mun 



1389. Pinchot, Gifford. National or state control of forest devastation. Jour. Forestry 

 18: 106-109. 1920. — State control does not offer the surest and strongest control of forest 

 devastation; national control does and has proved its point in the past. — E. N. Munns. 



1390. Pool, Raymond J. The fuel situation in Nebraska and the need for greater wood 

 production. Publ. Nebraska Acad. Sci. 10: 17-28. 1920. — The author discusses the need of 

 wood, the shortage of wood, and the value of woodlots in Nebraska. He urges thinning of 

 groves and wind-breaks, and cutting off when the crop is mature. — //. S. Conard. 



1391. Potts, II. W. The honey locust tree. Agric. Gaz. New South Wales 31: 85-90. 

 7 fig. 1920. Gives chemical analysis of seeds. — L. R. Waldron. 



1392. [Pratt, Geo. D.] New York's forestry program. Amer. Forestry 26: 51-52. 1920. 



1393. Rafn, Johannes. Skovfr0analyser i Saesonen 1917-18. [Analysis of forest seed 

 1917-18.] Dansk Skovforenings Tidsskr. 4:8-12. 1919. 



1394. Rafn, Johannes. Skovfr0analyser i Saesonen 1918-19, samt lidt om Egern. [Tests 

 of forest seed, 1918-19, with notes on the oak.] Dansk Skovforenings Tidsskr. 5: 55-64. 1920. 



1395. Rao, B. Inamati Sham. Brief note on the artificial raising of sandal in the Akola 

 Division of the Berar Circle, Central Provinces. Indian Forester 46: 1-10. PI. 1-2. 1920. — 

 Sandal seed was dibbled in the brush of Akola and in good years an excellent stand resulted. 

 As the sandal coppices and spreads by root suckers, the future stands are well assured. — E. 

 N. Munns. 



1396. Recknagel, A. B. Inspection, supervision and control of private forestry measures : 

 methods and costs. Jour. Forestry 18: 23-25. 1920. — There are nearly 300 timber land own- 

 ers in New York with more than 500 acres in their holdings. To administer these properly 

 would require technical supervision. Working plans for each tract should be prepared by a 

 forester and filed with the Conservation Commission, failure to do so to be punished and 

 violations of the plan carry fines. An office for handling these operations on 2,182,000 acres 

 is needed with a mobile field force. — E. N. Munns. 



1397. Record, S. J. Possum wood. Sci. Amer. 122: 569. 1920. — Descriptive of the tree 

 and its wood, known by many common names, and botanically as Hura crepitans. This is 

 one of the most recent introductions to the American timber market that seems certain to 

 find a place. — Chas. H. Otis. 



1398. [Ridsdale, P. S.] A decade of progress in the Forest Service. Amer. Forestry 26: 

 131-132. 1920. — An editorial, occasioned by the retirement of Henry S. Graves as head of 

 the U. S. Forest Service, in which is reviewed the progress made during the ten years in 

 which he has directed the forestry activities of the national government. — Chas. H. Otis. 



1399. [Ridsdale, P. S.] Increase in forest research necessary. Amer. Forestry 26: 

 69-70. 1920. 



1400. [Ridsdale, P. S.] Light burning is a mistake. Amer. Forestry 26: 68-69. 1920. — 

 Light burning means nothing more nor less than the continuance of the frequent surface fire, 

 which steadily and irresistibly destroys the western pine forests. At its best, the practice is 



