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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



Herman H. Chapman 

 Ernest A. Sterling 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



S. T. Dana 



Frederick S. Underhill 



John E. Rhodes 

 S. N. Spring 



April 1917 Vol. 23 



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CONTENTS No. 280 | 



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Planting One Million Food Gardens 197 



With seventeen illustrations. 

 Forestry and the Paper Industry By Hon. D. F. Houston. . . . 205 



With thirteen illustrations. 

 Nebraska's Forestation Commission By Woodruff Ball, 



Secretary 212 



The Independence of American Nurseries By David Fairchild 213 



With four illustrations. 

 The Dogwood By Dr. R. W. Shufeldt 217 



With five illustrations. 

 The Warblers By A. A. Allen, Ph.D 221 



With ten illustrations. 

 Mining " Claims" in the Grand Canyon By H. H. Chapman . 225 



With four illustrations. 



Food-Producing Trees By J. Russell Smith, Ph.D 228 



With nine illustrations. 



Eastern Forest Lands Bought 233 



The New Spirit of Public Service By C. J. Stahl 234 



With one illustration. 



-By J. J. Levison 236 



-By C. S. Judd 239 



Illustrated Glossary Further Descriptions of Roots Dr. R. W. 



Shufeldt 235 



One illustration. 

 Spraying Work of This Season- 



With three illustrations. 

 MoYian Erosion in Hawaii- 

 With two illustratiors. 



Tour of the National Forests and Parks 240 



Lake Sunapee Poem by Richard Butler Glaenzer 240 



Pine Blister Quarantine Hearing 241 



Editorial 242 



The Summer Campaign Against the White Pine Blister. 

 National Park Legislation. 

 Primary Education in Forestry. 



The Public Domain and the Stock-Raising Homestead 

 Law. 



Building Bungalows By Rawson Woodman Haddon 244 



With seven illustrations 



Canadian Department Ellwood Wilson 248 



Current Literature 248 



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 blossoms, fruits, seeds, area of growth, etc. 



No. 2 Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music, 262 pages, 38 colored and 15 other full-page 

 illustrations. 



No. 3 Field Book of American Wild Flowers, 587 pages, 24 colored plates and 215 full-page 

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