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Parks, state parks, 214. 



Pasturage in forests, 178 ; damage 

 by browsing and trampling, 

 where practiced, 178 ; where 

 advisable, where it should be 

 forbidden, 179. 



Persimmon, 279. 



Physical properties of wood, 227. 



Pine, white pine, yellow pine, etc., 

 as lumber, 154 ; how to distin- 

 guish pine, 240 ; list of different 

 pines and description of their 

 wood, 264. 



Pith rays in woods, 222. 



Plantations of trees on prairies, 195; 

 much has been accomplished, 197; 

 kinds raised and success, 196, 

 197. 



Planting, see Nursery work, 87 ; 

 tools, 89 ; on prairies, 89 ; diffi- 

 culties, 89 ; spring and fall plant- 

 ing, 90. 



Poles and piling, 146. 



Poplars and cottonwood, in the 

 Key, 246 ; in the list of woods 

 and kinds, 279. 



Pores in wood, 219. 



Posts, 144. 



Prairie plantations, see Plantations, 

 195. 



Protection of forest, 97 ; against 

 fire, 104 ; against storms, frost, 

 snow, and ice, 112 ; against 

 insects, 115; against larger ani- 

 mals, 130 ; against grazing ani- 

 mals, 131 ; against injurious 

 plants, 131. 



Protective forests, 203. 

 Pulp, wood pulp, how made, 140. 

 Pulp wood, 140 ; kinds, sizes, and 

 qualities, 140. 



Red fir, see Fir, 244, 267. 



Related topics, or matters akin to 

 forestry, 203. 



Reproduction of the forest, in wild- 

 woods, 2 ; in coppice, 45 ; in 

 ordinary selection woods, 58 ; 

 under seed trees, 64 ; by natural 

 seeding from the side, 71 ; by 

 artificial seeding and planting, 76. 



Ring-porous woods, 222. 



Resin and turpentine, 174 ; method 

 of bleeding or tapping, 174 ; 

 yield, 176. 



Rotation, 50. 



Run-off, surface and underground, 

 204. 



Sand dunes, 198; where we have 

 them, 198; what injury, 200; 

 how reclaimed, 201. 



Saplings, 16. 



Sapwood, see Wood, 217. 



Sassafras, 280. 



Scale insect, 121. 



Scaling timber, see Measuring, 172. 



Second-growth wood, 138. 



Seed beds, see Nursery, 82. 



Seeding from the side, method of 

 reproducing the forest, 71 ; how 

 nature has done this in our coun- 

 try, 71; how the timber should 

 be cut, 72 ; width of strips, 73 ; 



