592 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



The author beheves that the results of his study on the Coconino 

 Forest are appHcable over the entire yellow-pine type in the Southwest. 

 He states that under present conditions all yellow-pine reproduction 

 should be protected against serious damage by grazing. Overgrazing 

 should be avoided. Sheep should be expelled from cutting areas on 

 which they are causing severe damage until reproduction is well estab- 

 lished. 



The evidence presented by the author, in the reviewer's opinion, 

 clearly proves the enormous damage done to yellow-pine reproduction 

 by cattle and sheep. Unfortunately the means for overcoming this 

 damage is mostly set forth in generalizations which are of little value 

 in solving one of the most important silvicultural problems with which 

 the National Forest Service has to deal, namely, regeneration of west- 

 ern yellow pine in the Southwest. Some day the ''bull will be taken by 

 the horns" and the necessity for areas closed to grazing during the 

 period of regeneration will be more fully appreciated than at present. 



J. W. T. 



Report of the Minister of Lands and Forests of the Province of 

 Quebec for the Twelve Months Bnded June jo, ipiy. Quebec, Que. 

 1917. Pp. 133. 



The perusal of the portion of this report headed "Woods and For- 

 ests" (on 45 pages) impresses one with the fact that in the ninth year 

 of its existence the forest service is still rather carrying on a timber- 

 land administration than practicing forestry. We should, however, be 

 satisfied with the fact that in Quebec this timber-land administration 

 is at least under the direction of technical men, while in the large sister 

 province, Ontario, a careful avoidance of such logical arrangement is 

 to be noted. 



Mr. Piche, Chief of the Forestry Service, in very simple language, 

 recites the accomplishments as well as the hopes. 



Among the accomplishments stands first of all the collection of a 

 revenue amounting to $1,568,157 in ground rents, stumpage dues, 

 bonuses, etc. But the report foreshadows a reduction in 1917-1918 to 

 not exceeding one million dollars, due to lack of labor and other dis- 

 turbances caused by the war, which are reducing the cut. Closer 

 utilization, due to closer inspection, is noted ; "the proportion of waste 

 continuously decreases to a remarkable extent." Closer inspection also 

 reduces illegal cutting. The forest service is also engaged in land 

 classification, township by township, to segregate the lands fit for agri- 

 cultural settlement. 



