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of crude rubber", "the compounding of India rubber", "India 

 rubber solvents", "gutta percha", "balata", and a series of chap- 

 ters on the production of all kinds of rubber goods. The work 

 is more comprehensive than any other in English on this subject. 



(From Bulletin American Geography Society.) 



Hints on Drawing Legislative Bills. By Ernest Bruncken, 

 California Legislative Reference Bulletin, No. 1. Sacramento, 

 12 pp., Dec, 1908. 



It is the contention of the reviewer that all professional men, 

 foresters included, should know and be taught systematically 

 at their schools or Universities principles of law, especially of the 

 laws of contract, real estate, trespass, etc. 



While the brief pamphlet of Mr. Bruncken's is evidently in- 

 tended for the use of legislators it will be useful to such forest 

 officers as the State foresters, who are called upon to draft bills, 

 but also to others who wish to eke out their neglected education 

 in this matter. 



The pamphlet is written in simple clear style, and while the 

 prescriptions are almost all self-evident, it is useful to have them 

 systematically brought together. Mr. Bruncken could do excellent 

 service in educational lines by following up this first issue by 

 others, elucidating the principles of the various bodies of law as 

 indicated in the same simple manner. B. E. E. 



The Lumber Tariff in Relation to the Value of Farms and to 

 the Property Interests of Farmers and Other Small Timber 

 Owners. By James E. Defebaugh. Filed before the Ways and 

 Means Committee, Washington, D. C, February 18, 1909. 



This brief aims at showing from the U. S. Government statis- 

 tics that the proposed change in the lumber tariff would injure 

 a large number of small timber owners for each individual heavy 

 stumpage owner. 



The writer points out that the average saw-mill is a small enter- 

 prise, 25,267 mills out of a total of 26,934, in 1907, cutting less 

 than five million feet each, or 20,604,500,000 feet out of a total cut 

 of 40,256,154,000 feet — one-half. These small mills represent an 

 average investment of $4,000, and seldom own their own limits 

 but are run on currently bought lumber. Only some 2,000, the 



