Current Literature. 453 



Annual Fire Report, ipij. California State Board of Forestry. 

 Sacramento, 1914. Pp. 94, illus. 



This is a review of the forest fire situation in CaHfornia during 

 the past year. 



The State Forester points out that his office must rely upon 

 Federal Forest officials for reports on fires in the National For- 

 ests and upon 1,300 voluntary unpaid fire wardens for all reports 

 of fires outside of the National Forests. The latter class of men 

 fail to make reports, hence the statistics given probably do not 

 come very near the actual truth so far as the whole State is con- 

 cerned. 



The year 1913 appears to have been more unfavorable than any 

 for some time past, a total of 559,370 acres being burned over at 

 a loss of $511,077. The reported acreage burned during 1912 was 

 156,241 acres with a loss of $31,906. 



The most unfavorable months for fires are September, August, 

 July and October. 



Several pages are devoted to a description of a few average 

 fires which occurred during the year 1913. This is followed by 

 a discussion of protective associations operating within the State ; 

 the character of assistance rendered by the Federal Government 

 and to proposed legislation. 



An appendix contains a copy of the early and also the present 

 forest laws of the State. 



R. C, B, 



Flumes and Fluming. By Eugene S. Bruce. Bulletin 87, De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 1914. 



Contains an analysis of the methods of constructing box and 

 V-shaped flumes, cost of construction and upkeep. The bulletin 

 is well illustrated and contains tables showing the amount of water 

 required to fill flumes at the various depths with given grade per- 

 cents, weight of water, velocity of water when filled to various 

 depths at different grades, and estimates of material. Besides 

 being of interest to the profession itself, the bulletin unquestion- 

 ably contains material which would be of great value to lumber- 

 men. T. S. W., Jr. 



