1920] FORESTRY. 839 



cultural rules, and formulas, including the control of posts and dlsojisos, and 

 giving .spccitif- directions lor growing coniniercial plants and llowers botli under 

 glass ;iu(l in the open. 



FORESTRY. 



National forest policies: A critical review of the .several plans, F. E. 



Olmstkd (Jonr. Forestry, J8 {1920), No. 6, pp. 5f>8-60'J).—A critical review of 

 National Forest programs advocated by the Forest Service of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, the American Paper and Pulp Association, the National 

 Lumhcr Manufacturers' A.ssociation, and the Society of American Foresters. 



Annual report of the National Forest Reservation Commission for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, H)lf) {[U. <S'.] \a(l. Forest Reserve. Comn. Ann. 

 Rpt., 1910, pp. 20).— The report contains tabular data as f)f June 30. 1919, as 

 to purchase areas and lands being acquired under the Watershed Protection 

 Act of March 1, 1911, together with a statement of expenditures. It also dis- 

 cusses the future purchase policy, establishment of new areas, consolidation of 

 »'<iablished areas, development of the purchased forests, and the status of ex- 

 penditures and purchase. 



Sixteenth annual report of the State forester [of Massachusetts], F. W. 

 Rane {Ann. Rpt. Slate Forester Mass., 16 {1919), pp. 61, pis. 5, fif/s. 3). — This is 

 the usual annual report relative to the administration and management of the 

 State nurseries, plantations, and forests in Massachusetts, including accounts of 

 general reforestation activities in the State and moth and fire control work, 

 lii^ether with recommendations relative to needed legislation. 



[Report on forestry investigations at the North Central Minnesota Sub- 

 station, 1915-1919], O. I. Beegh {Minnesota Sta., Rpt. Grand Rapids 

 Sub.sta., 1915-1919, pp. 56-58, figs. 2). — A brief review of tree planting opera- 

 tions conducted since 1897, including data showing the growth of pines planted 

 at varying distances in plats of one species and in mixed plats. 



Twenty years of forest tree planting, J. S. Illick {Canod. Forestry Mag.. 

 16 {1920), No. 8-9. pp. 391-Wh ftd^- 7).— A contribution from the Pennsylvania 

 Department of Forestry, sketching the progress of tree planting operations on 

 State and private lands in Pennsylvania since 1899, and briefly describing 

 nursery experience gained in the State work. 



Forestry {Ann. Rpt. Reforms and Prog. Chosen {Korea), 1917-18, pp. 98-101, 

 pi. 1). — A brief report on forestry activities in Korea, with special reference to 

 the administration of the State fore-sts and nurseries andwork in afforestation. 



Annual report of tlie forest department for the year ending March 31, 

 I 1919, including report on railway sleeper plantations for the same 

 period, C. R. Ross {Union So. Africa, Ann. Rpt. Forest Dcpt.. 1919, pp. 34). — 

 This is the usual progress report relative to the administration and manage- 

 ment of the State forests in the Union of South Africa, including data showing 

 operations on plantations, nurseries, and drift sand areas, artificial reproduc- 

 tion in the indigenous forests, yields of major and minor forest products, reve- 

 nues, expenditures, etc. 



West African forests and forestry, A. H. Unwin {London: T. Fisher Vnwin, 

 Ltd., 1920, pp. 527, pis. Jfl). — A compiled work de.scribing the various forest 

 types, the principal timber trees, the conditions of working timber, forest in- 

 dustrieai and products, forest exports, etc., in the following countries of West 

 Africa: Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Gold Coast. Togo, Nigeria, 

 and in the British sphere of the Kamerun, including a note on the French and 

 Belgian Congo and Spanish Guinea. Concluding chapters discuss the oil beans, 

 8eed.s, and nuts of the forest, the oil palm and palm kernel industry, the forest 



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