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this program. In the first place he has found conservative cut- 

 ting a risky business involving loss through wind. Next he has 

 found that marking for the loggers was beset with such difficulty 

 and aroused so much opposition that better results were gained 

 by other means. The methods of the loggers under him do not 

 seem to have been so modified as yet that young growth has been 

 perceptibly favored. On the other hand genuine economy of 

 merchantable lumber does seem to have been secured. Stumps 

 are cut low, tops high, windfalls and dry timber picked up, and 

 this on a large scale, throughout a big lumber business. We 

 gather that in this direction alone there is in most large lumber 

 businesses, enough to occupy trained men for some time. 



Altogether Maine is in a hopeful condition. There seems to be 

 an awakening among the large owners of land and mills, and the 

 ideas of forestry are getting hold upon them gradually but 

 effectually. 



First Anmial Report of the Society for the Protection of New 

 Hampshire Forests, igoi-1902. Concord, N. H. Pp. 75. 

 Illustrated. 



The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests was 

 founded in 1901, to study the forest situation in the state and to 

 point out methods by which it may be improved. Its first activ- 

 ity was to place placards in public places calling attention to the 

 need of preserving the forests. It inaugurated a lecture course 

 under which a series of meetings were held in the mountain region. 

 It now permanently employs a forester, Dr. Philip W. Ayers, to 

 investigate timber growth, visit vvoodlands and advise upon them 

 when requested, and to address various meetings throughout the 

 state. The work of the Society has been excellent and deserving 

 of the greatest praise. 



Report of the Neiv Hampshire Forestry Covwiissioyi for the Years 

 ipoi-ipo2. Concord, N. H., 1902. Pp. 109. 



The first forty pages of this report contain a rambling descrip- 

 tion of inspection trips taken through the state and of meetings 

 with various friends and acquaintances. The second forty pages 

 contain statistics, taken from the Twelfth Census, of the allied 

 forest industries. Among various discussions in the remainder of 



