EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 837 



FORESTRY. 



Laws, decisions, and opinions applicable to the National Forests, compiled 

 by R. F. Feagans {U. S. Drpt. Agr., Office Solicitor, Laws, Decifiions, and Opin- 

 ions Applicable to the Nati^mal Forests, I'JIG, pp. 151). — This comprises ;i com- 

 pilation of laws and parts of laws of a general nature alTecting the adminis- 

 tration and protection of the National Forests, with citations to acts of special 

 or local application, and references to the more important decisions of the 

 courts, the Interior Department, the Attorney General, the Comptroller of the 

 Treasury, and the Solicitor of the Department of Agriculture. 



Seventh annual report of the state forester. — Forestry in Vermont, A. F. 

 Hawes {Ann. Rpt. State Forester 17., 7 (I'Jl.")), pp. 55, pis. 6). — This report 

 includes a description of some of the more interesting examples of forestry 

 throughout the State, together with an account of nursery planting operation.s 

 for the year and activities on the different State forests. A brief note is given 

 on white pine blister rust inspection for 1915. A report on forest fires in 1914 

 by R. M. Ross and a report on an examination made by B. A. Chandler on land 

 willed to the United States Government are also included. 



Eighth annual report of the Washington Forest Fire Association, 1915 

 (Ami. Rpt. Wash. Forest Fire Assoc, 8 {1015), pp. 20). — A report of the activi- 

 ties of the association for the year 1915 in the protection of some 2,586,409 acres 

 of forests from fire. 



Report of committee on forestry, Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, 

 for the year ended September 30, 1915, L. A. Thurston {Honolulu: Hawaiian 

 Gazette Co., Ltd., 1915, pp. 22). — This report contains short reports by C. S. 

 Judd (pp. 6-14), D. Forbes (pp. 15-20), and L. von Tempsky (pp. 21, 22), in 

 which consideration is given to the desirability of forest protection and forest 

 extension for the conservation of water and the protection of watersheds, the 

 prevention of sand or dust drifting, and the production of the major and minor 

 forest products. Lists are given of trees suitable for these various purposes 

 in Hawaii. 



The Eberswalde forest-seed testing station and the methods of testing the 

 seeds, Schwappach {Ztsclir. Forst u. Jaydw., 47 {l'J15), No 11, pp. 631-651, 

 fig. 1). — A descriptive account of the seed-testing work of the Eberswalde seed- 

 testing station. 



Progress report of forest administration in Baluchistan for 1914-15, 

 MuLRAj {Ifi)t. Forest Admin. Baluchistan, 1914-15, pp. 6+11+28). — The usual 

 progress report of the administration of the state forests of Baluchistan, in- 

 cluding data relative to alterations in areas, forest surveys, working plans, 

 forest protection, revenues and expenditures, etc., for the year 1914-15. 



Annual progress report on forest administration in the Province of Bihar 

 and Orissa for the year 1914:-15, H. H. Haines {An7i. Rpt. Forest Admin. 

 Bihar and Orissa, 1914-15, pp. II +52+5). — A report similar to the above rela- 

 tive to the administration of the state forests of the Province of Bihar and 

 Orissa for the year 1914-15. 



Annual administration report of the forest department of the Madras 

 Presidency for the twelve months ended June 30, 1915, A. W. Lushington, 

 S. Cox, P. M. Lushington, C. D. McCarthy, et al. {Ann. Admin. Rpt. Forest 

 Dept. Madras, 1915, pp. 81 + LXXII+18). — This comprises separate reports on 

 the administration of the state forests in the Northern, Central, Southern, and 

 Western Circles of the Madras Presidency, together with a summarized report 

 on the administration of the forests in the Presidency as a whole. Data rela- 

 tive to alterations in forest areas, forest surveys, protective and miscellaneous 



