Current Literature 721 



have been confined to secure protection against fire and the 

 running of hogs and cattle, with less wasteful use. 



A long, carefully prepared and fully illustrated article on the 

 locust borer, by H. Garman, acquaints us, incidentally, with 

 the existence of a number of commercial plantations of Black 

 locust in the State, aggregating some 300 acres, all more or less 

 attacked by the borer. The close relation between the damage 

 by the larvae in the trees and the abundance of goldenrod, on 

 which the beetles feed, was established. Destruction of the 

 goldenrod or spraying with arsenate of lead, also spraying of the 

 trees in September, when the beetle emerges from them, is sug- 

 gested as remedy. 



The article on marketing of woodlot products in Kentucky, by 

 W. D. Sterrett, which occupies half the volume, is particularly 

 praiseworthy for the thoroughness and comprehensiveness of pro- 

 cediire. As regards woodlot conditions, the State is divided into 

 five regions in which economic usefulness of the woodlot, sizes, 

 kinds, qualities of trees, and markets differ. The distribution of 

 cut among the various species in these different sections is given 

 in table 1 ; the consumption of wood-using industries and propor- 

 tion of supply from woodlots in table 2; a full directory of con- 

 cerns, with addresses of wood-using firms, classified into 13 uses, 

 covers 15 pages (part of this erroneously referred in the index to 

 Tennessee!). The use of different species (17 kinds) by different 

 industries is discussed in detail with prices for different assort- 

 ments, species by species, with reasons of favoring this or that 

 assortment ; price being given for various grades of limiber as well 

 as logs. 



In a chapter on "How to increase profits from woodlot sales," 

 there are discussed methods of sale; scaling and grading logs and 

 bolts; estimating standing timber; knowledge of markets; costs 

 and profits; contracts and supervision; and cooperation. In the 

 tabulations accompanying this chapter, tables 8 to 11 are of 

 special interest and, as far as we know, novel. Tables 8 and 9 

 are volume tables in board feet, the first lumped for any hardwood 

 trees over 75 years old, the second for any coniferous trees over 75 

 years old, in each case with correction factors for different species 

 and diameters. Apparently the basic hardwood table is that for 

 Yellow poplar, the basic conifer table that for White pine. 



This is a bold innovation and seemingly based on slim data, but 



