1084 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



them. At the end of the second season's growth the trees are said to have averaged 

 10 ft. in height. 



The planting of catalpas was made in Marshall County on land valued at S100 to 

 $125 per acre for agricultural purposes. The beginning of the plantation was made 

 in 1902 and continued in 1903 and 1904, the hardy catalpa being used. The older 

 trees have been cut back to stumpa so as to secure a single straight shoot, and this 

 method is recommended by the writer for the handling of catalpa for timber 

 production. 



The report concludes with articles on The Relation of Forests to Stream Flow, by 

 J. W. Tourney, and Recent Progress in Timber Preservation, by H. von Schrenk, 

 reprinted from C. S. Department of Agriculture Yearbook for 1903 (E. S. R., 16, pp. 

 163, 166). 



Forest conditions in the Little Belt Mountains Forest Reserve, J. B. Lei- 

 berg i U. S. Geol. Survey Professional Paper No. 30, ?>/<. 7-''. m<n< l, dam. 1). — The 

 location and extent of the Little Belt Mountains Forest Reserve are described. This 

 reserve is situated in southern Montana and embraces 501,120 acres of forested, 

 wooded, and nontimbered lands. A comparatively large area of this tract has been 

 badly burned, more than one-fifth of the total area being so reported. 



The topography of the region is described, and the timber species are mostly the 

 lodgepole pine, red fir, and Engelmann spruce, these .'! species furnishing more than 

 90 per cent of the forest trees. Notes are given on the distribution, age, and rate of 

 growth of the trees, and figures presented which show the volume of mill timber in 

 the reserve to he approximately 250,000,000 ft. B. M., while there is 411,810,000 

 cu. ft. additional of pole and fuel timber. 



Forest conditions in the Lincoln Forest Reserve, F. < i. Plummek and M. < i. 

 Gowsell ! U. S. Geol. Survey Professional Paper No. 33, pp. 47, pis. 9, map l,dgms. £). — 

 A description is given showing the location and boundaries of the Lincoln Forest 

 Reserve in New Mexico, after which its topography is discussed and the distribution 

 of timber and foresl /.ones described. The principal species are: yellow pine, which 

 furnishes about ill per cent of the entire forest stand, followed by red fir, white fir, 

 Engelmann spruce, and Mexican white pine. Notes are also given on a number of 

 species of deciduous trees. Statements are given regarding the agricultural and 

 grazing lamb embraced within the reserve, and detailed descriptions of the different 

 townships. 



Forestry in California (Forestry and Irrig., 11 (1905), No. 2, pp: 84> 85). — A 

 description is given of the extent of the forest areas of California, about one-third of 

 the entire wooded area being now embraced in the Federal forest reserves. For the 

 remaining forest area, amounting to some 20,000,000 acres, the State has, through 

 cooperation with the Bureau of Forestry of this Department, worked out a system 

 of forest management, which is briefly described. 



Studies have been made of the different types of timberland, and attempts are 

 being made to secure protection from fire. The results of some of the studies are 

 briefly given. 



investigations with chaparral have already shown that it encroaches upon and 

 spreads over the open country in California and makes a satisfactory watershed cover 

 wherever it occurs. Its composition varies with the elevation, previous damage by 

 fire, etc. 



The natural reproduction of forest trees has been investigated and the value of 

 such studies is pointed out. 



Practicability of forest planting in California, E. A. Sterlinc; ( Water mid 

 Forest, 5 (1905), No. /, pp. 1-3, figs. ..'). — The necessity of timber planting for the 

 protection of irrigation interests as well as for the production of a future timber 

 supply is pointed out. Forest planting is recommended on barren or brush-covered 

 areas which have never supported a forest growth as well as over those areas which 



