730 



AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Booki 



am 



Tr 



ees 



A WORTH-WHILE SLOGAN 



is one that will save you money. You 

 can save a dollar out of every ten dol- 

 lars you spend on books to friends as 

 gifts, or for yourself. 



Can you think of a more useful gift 

 than a good book, be it fact or fiction? 

 Good books have the power to inspire 

 millions of people, and, it is said, "are 

 the windows through which the soul 

 looks out." 



Order your books at a 



10 PER CENT SAVING 



Just give us the title of the book and 

 the author. Take the publishers' price 

 and deduct 10 per cent. If you are 

 in doubt, give us a list of the books 

 and we will quote you. 



DON'T FORGET to include the beau- 

 tifully illustrated AMERICAN FOR- 

 ESTRY MAGAZINE. In giving a gift 

 of this magazine you are not only giv- 

 ing one of the most widely quoted pub- 

 lications of this country, but are helping 

 the furtherance of activities to restore 

 and perpetuate the forests of this coun- 

 try. 



Make one of your friends a tree and 

 nature lover. Joyce Kilmer (who gave 

 his life for his country), wrote: 



"I think that I shall never see 

 A poem lovely as a tree. 

 * * Poems are made by fools like me, 

 But only God can make a tree." 



Let AMERICAN FORESTRY teach your friend that 

 love for God's great out-of-doors that means health and 

 happiness. It is only $4.00 a year. 



American Forestry Association 



1214 Sixteenth Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. 



Of course 



Old Omar appreciated 



His "Book of Verse" 



The better 



Beneath a Tree. 



^ 



"THE FOREST PRESERVES OF 

 COOK COUNTY" This valuable report 

 of activities on and administration of this 

 wonderful tract, owned by the Forest Pre- 

 serve EHstrict of Cook County, Illinois, is 

 a Siplendid tribute to the men responsible for 

 the development of this highly important 

 public service work. The people of Illinois 

 have good cause for pride in the possession 

 of this forest preserve, for the wise fore- 

 sight and public spirit which made its ac- 

 quirement possible, and for congratulation 

 on the sane and practical manner in which 

 the project is being developed. 



"LONG LIFE FOR WOOD" and HOW 

 TO MAKE FARM TIMBERS ROT- 

 PROOF" two Carbosota booklets just 

 off the press, are full of valuable informa- 

 tion. The first describes the many uses 

 to which Carbosota may be put, explaining 

 the several methods of its application. 

 The second points out to the farmer how 

 he can save his buildings and all wooden 

 structures from decay, describing and il- 

 lustrating what rot of wood really is and 

 how he may protect himself against it. 



The California State Board of Forestry 

 has acquired 30 acres of land on which they 

 are raising trees for highway planting. 



"The Spell of the Rockies," by Enos A. 

 Mills, Houghton-Mifflin Company, is just 

 what its name implies. The author deals 

 with his experiences in camp, on trail, in 

 the forest and on the mountains of the 

 West, narrating what he has to tell in a 

 manner both interesting and instructive. 

 Few writers are as well informed about 

 western conditions as Mr. Mills and it is 

 always a treat to read his books. 



"The Story of a Thousand- Year Pine", 

 by Enos A. Mills, Houghton-Mifflin Com- 

 pany, is a booklet telling with charm and 

 grace the life story of a yellow pine in one 

 of the Western forests. 



"The Conservation of Wild Life in Can- 

 ada," by C. Gordon Hewitt D. Sc, Charles 

 Scribners Sons. Declaring that on the 

 American continent it is only in Canada 

 that any important part of the original 

 wild life remains Mr. Hewitt proceeds to 

 make a survey of the wild life together 

 with an earnest and compelling plea for 

 concerted action in the endeavor to con- 

 serve and preserve our fast disappearing 

 wild creatures. 



INSPIRING INSTRUCTION 



Writes one of our members: "The 

 Magazine is instructive and inspir- 

 ing. It should have the hearty sup- 

 port of every patriotic American, 

 since the work is intimately bound 

 UD with the welfare of this nation." 

 Make a real gift a membership to 

 your friend, this Christmas. 



BOOK REVIEWS 



Material Handling Cyclopedia (New York) 



$10.00. 



This is the latest addition to the library 

 of transportation literature, and its pur- 

 pose is to bring together in a single volume 

 complete and practical working information { 

 about the many types of material-handling 

 devices used in industry. Its publication, 

 instigated by the engineering departments 

 of various material-handling machinery 

 manufacturers and of terminal and indus- 

 trial engineers, will fill a long felt want in 

 providing in readily accessible form all in- 

 formation available on material-handling 

 machinery and methods, which heretofore 

 has had to be sought from various sources. 



"Manual of the Trees of North Amer- 

 ica," by Charles Sprague Sargent. Illus- 

 trated, $12.50. 



A new, thoroughly revised and enlarged 

 edition of this standard work on the trees 

 of North .\merica, with nearly 800 illus- 

 trations. "One of the fundamental books, 

 and admirable in every way. It is the book 

 that every tree lover must have. It tells 

 him all he wants to know and nothing that 

 he must unlearn." 



