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abandoned farm lands and cut-over lands. 

 This work was conducted by W. W. Ashe 

 until May, 1909, since which time J. S. 

 Holmes, formerly of the United States For- 

 est Service, has been the forester of the 

 state. 



The latest issues in the series of studies 

 of wood using industries in the several 

 states cover Kentucky and Oregon. The 

 former is by Roger E. Simmons, statisti- 

 cian of the Forest Service, and is published 

 under the direction of M. C. Rankin, chair- 

 man of the state board of agriculture, for- 

 estry, and immigration, and commissioner 

 of agriculture, labor, and statistics of the 

 Commonwealth of Kentucky, and H. S. 

 Sackett, chief of the oflBce of wood utiliza- 

 tion of the United States Forest Service. 

 The latter is by Howard B. Oakleay of the 

 Forest Service, published under the direc- 

 tion of A. B. Wastell, secretary of the Ore- 

 gon Conservation Association, and J. B. 

 Knapp of the Forest Service. They are 

 done on the lines of similar studies of 

 other states that have been already noticed 

 in these pages. Both states are of great 

 interest in this connection. 



Museum Bulletin 147 of the New York 

 State Museum, issued as Education De- 

 partment Bulletin No. 490, is the twenty- 

 tixth report of the state entomologist on 

 injurious and other insects of the state of 

 New York and is of interest to tree grow- 

 ers as well as horticulturists. There are 

 a few pages on forest tree insects, includ- 

 ing the large black carpenter ant, Abbott's 

 pine sawfly, the spotted cornus sawfly, the 

 blue cornus sawfly, the spotted pine weevil, 

 the snow-white linden moth, the birth leaf 

 skeletonizer, beech tree blight, and silver 

 fir aphid. 



The annual report of the State Board of 



Forestry of Indiana is a survey the experi- 

 i.iental and educational work which is go- 

 ing on in the state. Indiana is having the 

 experience of all of our states and there 

 is proceeding there a slow and patient de- 

 velopment of public sentiment. The bien- 

 nial reports of the state foresters of Cali- 

 fornia and Wisconsin, two states where for- 

 estry has already arrived, have also ap- 

 peared and contain much matter of inter- 

 est to the student of state forestry, which 

 should mean every American citizen. An- 

 other annual report is that of the commis- 

 sioner of forestry of Rhode Island, and this 

 is largely a practical essay on the man- 

 agement of woodlands by the commissioner, 

 Jesse B. Mowry. 



The Forest Club Annual of the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska for 1911 is an interesting 

 pamphlet of 119 pages containing num- 

 erous articles, many of them illustrated, of 

 more than local interest. 



The Biennial Report of the Board of 

 Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry 

 of Hawaii, for the period ending December 

 31, 1910, has been received. This report 

 contains 80 pages devoted to the division 

 of forestry and embraces the whole field 

 of forestry, as the territorial forest service, 

 under Mr. Hosmer, is active in all direc- 

 tions. Our continental foresters will envy 

 a department which is able to say that the 

 territory has not had any forest fires of 

 sufficient importance to justify more than 

 passing mention. 



The annual Report of the Director of 

 Forestry of the Philippine Islands for the 

 year ending June 30, 1910, is a compact 

 summary of the work of the department, 

 the peculiar problems of which have been 

 discussed in recent articles in Amekican 

 Forestry. 



