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latter price for oak. Chestnut pole prices run from $1 for 20-foot 

 to $6 and $8 for 55-foot. And so the various kinds of materials are 

 discussed from the market point of view, and finally marketing sug- 

 gestions are appended. 



The object of the bulletin of informing the farmer of market condi- 

 tions is undoubtedly successfully accomplished, but we regret that the 

 opportunity of telling him how to use his woodlot silviculturally could 

 not be improved at the same time. B. E. F. 



Flat-headed Borers Affecting Forest Trees in the United States. 

 By H. E. Burke. Bulletin 437, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 Contribution from the Bureau of Entomology. Washington, D. C. 

 1917. Pp. 8. 



, The larger part of this bulletin is occupied with the structural 

 features and systematic classification of these buprestid beetles; only 

 a brief account of life history and habits in general is given, no sug- 

 gestion of how to combat them ; and the claim that these borers are 

 "among the most important infesting forest trees in the United States" 

 seems fortunately only a phase and hardly substantiated. 



A Preliminary Report on the Occurrence of Western Red-Rot 

 in Finns Ponderosa. By W. H. Long. Bulletin 490, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. Contribution from the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry. Washington, D. C. 1917. Pp. 8. 



An old enemy, red-rot, newly defined, however, and as yet not 

 named, is described as infesting Finns ponderosa. in Arizona and New 

 Mexico over large areas. It is not Trametes pini with its woody, 

 brown, perrennial fruiting bodies on the boles of standing trees, 

 but forms annual fruiting bodies of white encrusting layers on the 

 underside of logs lying on the ground. It attacks sapwood as well 

 as heartwood of dead branches of living trees and from there travels 

 down into the heartwood and gives no constant external sign of its 

 presence. .Since it does not frequently attack younger stock (black- 

 jack), but is an old-age disease, of trees over 150 to 200 years old, 

 the remedy is to cut these out. 



