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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



July 1918 Vol. 24 CONTENTS No. 295 



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IK THE BEAUTIFUL SNOQUALMIE FOREST 



This shows the quiet beauty of Upper Twin Lake, at 



the head of Troublesome Creek, in the Snoqual- 



mie National Forest, Washington. 



Entered as second-class mail matter December 24, 1909, at the 

 Post-office at Washington, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copy- 

 right, 1918, by the American Forestry Association. 



With the American Lumberjacks in France By Lieut.-Col. W. B. 



Greeley, A. E. F 387 



With ten illustrations. 



War Lumbering in France By Lieut. R. H. Faulkner, A.E. F 392 



With three illustrations. 



The Forestry Troops in France By Capt. Francis Kiefer, A. E. F. 394 

 With seven illustrations. 



Donations to the Welfare Fund for Lumbermen and Foresters in 

 War Service 397 



Work of the Welfare Fund Commended 



England's Future Forests 



The Forest Patriots Poem by William Herschell. 



397 

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 399 



A Monument to Sea Gulls 400 



With one illustration. 



Richard T. Guthrie Decorated. 



Conserving Our Food Supply By Charles Lathrop Pack. 

 With nine illustrations. 



400 

 401 



Three War Scythes Now Hang in One Tree By H. E. Zimmerman 408 

 With one illustration. 



New Purchases of Land for the Eastern National Forests. 



408 



The Hawaiian Lehua By Vaughan MacCaughey 409 



With ten illustrations. 



The Uses of Wood Wood Used in Rough Construction By Hu 



Maxwell 419 



With twelve illustrations. 



Two Good Things in a Small Package 427 



With one illustration. 



General Federation Endorses Pine Blister Legislation 427 



The Pigeons and Doves By A. A. Allen. 

 With five illustrations. 



428 



Italy's Need for Wood 432 



Flower and Other Studies for the Summer of 1918 By R. W. 



Shufeldt 433 



With eleven illustrations. 



Splendid Progress of Wooden Ship Building : 438 



Forest Research and the War By Earle H. Clapp 439 



Federal Horticultural Board Urged to Exercise Decisive Powers. . . . 441 



442 

 Current Literature 



Power Machinery to Aid Lumbering 446 



New Booklet on Wood Available 446 



Much Appreciated Comment from Our Readers 446 



