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Pozvder-Post Damage by Lyctus Beetles to Seasoned Hardwood. 

 By A. D. Hopkins and T. E. Snyder. Farmers' Bulletin 778, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. Contribution from the Bureau of En- 

 tomology. Washington, D. C. 1917. Pp. 20. 



This bulletin describes the methods that have been found effective 

 in preventing loss of seasoned hardwood products liable to attack 

 by the powder-post beetles. The character and habits of these beedes 

 are touched upon and the four species of Lyctus described. 



Conditions favorable for attack are an accumulated stored stock 

 of second-growth sapwood materials or refuse, and mixing species 

 liable with less liable, when the latter will also be attacked. Sapwood 

 seasoned for less than eight to ten months will not be attacked, and 

 hardwood is never attacked. 



Stock should be rehandled in November or February ; refuse sap- 

 wood be burned ; heartwood and sapwood, and species kept separate ; 

 the oldest stock utilized first ; hardwood piling sticks be used ; infested 

 wood be removed; slightly infested be treated with kerosene, with 

 brush or in vats, or with a mixture of kerosene and creosote; infested 

 parts be cut away. A few other remedies for infested material are 

 gfiven. 



Grass and Woodland Fires hi Texas. By J. H. Foster. Bulletin 

 1, Department of Forestry, Agricultural and Mechanical College of 

 Texas. College Station, Tex. 1916. Pp. 16. 



Tree Planting Needed in Texas. By J. H. Foster and H. B. 

 Krausz. Bulletin 2, Department of Forestry, Agricultural and Me- 

 chanical College of Texas. College Station, Tex. 1917. Pp. 32. 



First Annual Report of the State Forester. By J. H. Foster, H. 

 B. Krausz, and G. W. Johnson. Bulletin -1, Department of Forestry, 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. College Station, Tex. 

 1916. Pp. 16. 



The profession will welcome these reports from the new State 

 Forester of Texas, J. H. Foster. In his first publication he has rightly 

 emphasized the fire problem, the laws governing Texas forest adminis- 

 tration, and the need for tree planting. In "Grass and Woodland Fires 

 in Texas" he describes the more serious fire problems, the damage 

 resulting, and the possibility of future wood famine, if the forests are 



