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tax laws, the development of forestry by private capital is not apt to be exten- 

 sive enough to furnish a sufficient supply of timber in the future. 



An article by F. R. Fairchild on the economic problem of forest taxation is 

 appended almost in full. 



Shall States regulate the management of private forests? H, H. Chapman 

 (Amer. Forestry, 11 {1911), No. 2, pp. S2-88, pis. 2). — An examination of the 

 principles of state regulation with special reference to the control of private 

 forests. 



The author recommends the encouragement of private forestry through the 

 dissemination of forestry propaganda, the establishment of demonstration for- 

 ests, and improving the systems of fire protection and forest taxation. He also 

 advocates the state ownership and control of lands most in need of a perpetual 

 forest and a reasonable degree of regulation of lands where the indirect in- 

 fluence of the forest on streams and erosion is clearly proved. 



The National Forest manual. — Special uses {U. 8. Dept. Agr., Forest Serv., 

 1911, pp. 35). — This manual, which constitutes a part of the Use Book (E. S. R., 

 24, p. 548), consists of regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture and instruc- 

 tions to forest officers relating to and governing special uses of the National 

 Forest lands. 



Fifth annual report of the Forest Park Reservation Commission of New 

 Jersey for the year ending October 31, 1909 (Atm. Rpt. Forest Park Reserv. 

 Com. N. ./., 5 {1909), pp. 56, pis. 5). — This report deals chiefly with the ques- 

 tion of forest fires. A summary is given of forest fires in 1909, violations of the 

 law, and the cost of the fire service, together with a discussion of fires in other 

 States, railroad fires, the forest fire service, state forest reserves, educational 

 work, forest planting, shade trees, tree enemies, the needs of the state forest 

 service, and a financial statement for the year. 



[Forestry in North Carolina], J. H. Pkatt and J. S. Holmes (N. C. Oeol. 

 Survey, Bicn. Rpt. 1909-10, pp. 53-105). — ^This consists of a progress report on 

 operations along various lines of forestry conducted by the North Carolina 

 Geological and Economic Survey during the fiscal years 1909 and 1910. The 

 work under way consists of an investigation of the forest conditions of North 

 Carolina, studies of forest fires and of the wood-using industries of the State, 

 the examination of timber areas in regard to practicing scientific forestry, the 

 examination of watersheds belonging to municipalities as to their protection 

 against fire and contamination, and investigations regarding the reforestation 

 of abandoned farm lands and cut-over lands. 



Forestry in Russia, L. S. Wood (Quart. Jour. Forestry, 5 (1911), No. 2, 

 pp. 101-119). — This consists of a report on the examination of about 309,951 

 acres of timber land in the Province of Perm, Russia, including data relative to 

 the nature of the stands and growth measurements of sample areas and trees. 



The climatic differences upon northern and southern slopes in their rela- 

 tion to the water content of clean-cut and forest- covered soils, R. Wallen- 

 BOCK (Centbl. Gesam. Forstw., 37 (1911), No. 2, pp. 51-63). — The results are 

 given of soil moisture determinations made in the years 1909 and 1910 on 

 clean-cut areas and on soils covered with mature beech stands, both on northern 

 and on southern exposures. The season of 1909 was classed as a dry season 

 and 1910 as a wet season. 



The results secured from the determinations as a whole show that the water 

 content of the soils is greater on clean-cut areas than on beech stands, both on 

 northern and southern slopes and in dry and wet years. In wet years the 

 clean-cut areas take up more moisture on southern slopes and less moisture on 

 northern slopes than mature beech stands on the corresponding slopes. The 

 difference in water content of the cleared areas and the forest soils is greater 



