438 Forestry Quarterly. 



contributions to the only too limited knowledge of certain tech- 

 nical as well as general phases of forest distribution, growth, 

 forest utilization and protection. 



Mr. Rosenbluth's bulletin entitled woodlot forestry, admirably 

 fills the need for a complete up-to-date manual as well as treatise 

 for woodlot owners not only in New York State but in a good 

 portion of the northeastern section of the country. It also serves 

 as an excellent model for investigations of similar nature in the 

 woodlot regions. Much of the subject is generally known and 

 understood by foresters, it is intended presumably for the use of 

 owners of woodlots, estates, and small timber tracts and is ex- 

 pressed in simple, direct and readily understood phraseology. 

 And in this very particular lies the great strength, value and use- 

 fulness of the publication. Naturally very little claim may be 

 laid to originality and investigative research. As stated in the 

 acknowledgments much of the material has been suggested and 

 contributed by others. However, Mr. Rosenbluth's extensive ex- 

 perience over the State of New York in various associated lines 

 of work have been of great assistance to him in collecting and 

 collaborating the material embodied in it. 



On page 7 it is stated that there are over 4,436,000 acres in 

 woodlots in the state and 2,750,000 acres of unimproved land. 

 This latter, presumably may be classed as abandoned pastures, 

 waste land, etc. and therefore belonging in the same class as the 

 woodlot for general forestry purposes. It is unfortunate that 

 the planting up of waste lands has not received more attention in 

 the bulletin, in as much as according to these figures one-third of 

 the farm areas are not used for purely agricultural purposes. 



On the whole too much space is devoted to elaborating the 

 principles involved in woodlot management and too little to the 

 actual application of these principles. It is a well accepted fact 

 that woodlot owners do not often get the full market value of 

 their forest products and the bulletin would be of much greater 

 usefulness had there been more discussion of the practicability 

 and methods of utilizing the products of the woodlot both to 

 assist in perpetuating the timber supply and to benefit the wood- 

 lot owners. The space given to utilization is excellent, however, 

 as far as it goes inasmuch as it gives at least approximate prices 



