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Mr. Gary takes a radical stand, and, contrasted with that of 

 other investigators under similar, almost identical conditions, it is 

 a startling one. Undoubtedly what our woods now need is less 

 theory and more practice, less poor measuring, more good silvi- 

 culture. 



Report of the Director of the Experiment Farms, Department of 

 Agriadttire, Canada, 1901. 



In this report will be found a short account of the experiments 

 in tree planting on Sable Island, an attempt at the fixation of 

 shifting sands. 



Report of the Con7iecticut Board of Agricidture 1901. Pp. 320. 



In this report are reprinted two interesting addresses before the 

 Agricultural Convention : 



Forestry for the Farmer, by Walter Mulford, State Forester, 

 and The Yale Forest School and Its Purposes, by Henry S. 

 Graves, Director of the Yale Forest School. 



Special Report of Capt. George P. Aher7i, in Charge of Forestry 

 Bureau Philippine Islands. Government Printing Ofl&ce, 

 Washington, D. C, 1901. Pp. 60, PI. 33. 



This report gives an excellent idea of the forest and lumbering 

 conditions in the islands. The forest service consists of the offi- 

 cer in charge and the following assistants ; four Foresters at $200 

 per month, four Inspectors at $150, ten Assistant Foresters at $50, 

 thirty Rangers at $30, a Chief Clerk at $100, a Botanist at $100 

 and a Translator. 



All timber cut on public land is cut by license. Each ship- 

 ment of forest products must be classified, measured, and orders 

 of payment issued, all of which requires considerable training, 

 inasmuch as one hundred and sixty varieties of native tree species 

 are received in the market, not to mention many varieties of dye- 

 woods, gums, resins, etc., with all of which the official must be 

 thoroughly acquainted and able to promptly classify and appraise ; 

 this in addition to his duties in charge of the forests of his district, 

 running his office, and instructing ignorant native loggers in the 

 rudiments of the forestry regulations. 



Each shipment of forest products is inspected by a forestry 

 official and each log stamped with the Bureau mark. A manifest 



