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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



BOOKS ON FORESTRY 



AMERICAN FORESTRY will publish ech month, tor the benefit of those who wish books on forestry, a 

 list of titles, authors, and prices of such books. These may be ordered through the American Forestry As- 

 sociation, Washington, D. C. Prices are by mail or express prepaid.' 



FOREST VALUATION Fllibert Roth tt-50 



FOREST REGULATION Fllibert Roth 2.00 



PRACTICAL TREE REPAIR By Elbert Peets 2.00 



THE LUMBER INDUSTRY By R. S. Kellogg 1.M 



LUMBER MANUFACTURING ACCOUNTS By Arthur F. Jones 2.10 



FOREST VALUATION By H. H. Chapman 2.00 



CHINESE FOREST TREES AND TIMBER SUPPLY By Norman Shaw 2.50 



TREES, SHRUBS, VINES AND HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS By John Kirkegaard 1.50 



TREES AND SHRUBS By Charles Sprague Sargent Vols. I and II, 4 Parts to a Volume 



ThFtRa'iNING ''6f' A FORESTER Gilford Mnchot" !"'.!.. " 1.35 



LUMBER AND ITS USES R. S. Kellogg. 1.15 



THE CARE OF TREES IN LAWN, STREET AND PARK B. E. Fernow 2.17 



NORTH AMERICAN TREES N. L. Britton T.JO 



KEY TO THE TREES Collins and Preston 1.51 



THE FARM WOOD T .OT E. G. Cheyney and J. P. Wentling 1.75 



IDENTIFICATION OF THE ECONOMIC WOODS OF THE UNITED STATES Samuel J. Record 1.25 



PLANE SURVEYING John C. Tracy 3.00 



FOREST MENSURATION Henry Selon Graves 4.00 



THE ECONOMICS OF FORESTRY B. E. Fernow 1.(1 



F1XST BOOK OF FORESTRY Fllibert Roth 1.10 



PRACTICAL FORESTRY A. S. Fuller 1.50 



PRINCIPLES OF AMERICAN FORESTRY Samuel B. Green 1.50 



PRINCIPLES OF FRUIT GROWING L. H. Bailey 1.75 



THREE ACRES AND LIBERTY Bolton Hall 1.75 



TREES IN WINTER A. S. Blakeslee and C. D. Jarvis 2.00 



MANUAL OF THE TREES OF NORTH AMERICA (exclusive of Mexico) Chas. Sprague Sargent 6.00 



AMERICAN WOODS Romeyn B. Hough, 14 Volumes, per Volume 7.50 



HANDBOOK OF THE TREES OF THE NORTHERN U. S. AND CANADA, EAST OF THE 



ROCKY MOUNTAINS Romeyn B. Hough 6.00 



GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH THE TREES J. Horace McFarland 1.75 



PRINCIPAL SPECIES OF WOOD: THEIR CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES Chas. H. Snow J.50 



HANDBOOK OF TIMBER PRESERVATION Samuel M. Rowe 5.00 



TREES OF NEW ENGLAND L. L. Dame and Henry Brooks 1.50 



TREES, SHRUBS AND VINES OF THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES H. E. Parkhurst 1.50 



TREES H. Marshall Ward 1.50 



OUR NATIONAL PARKS John Muir 1.91 



LOGGING Ralph C. Bryant J.50 



THE IMPORTANT TIMBER TREES OF THE UNITED STATES S. B. Elliott 2.50 



FORESTRY IN NEW ENGLAND Ralph C. Hawley and Austin F. Hawes J.50 



THE PRINCIPLES OF HANDLING WOODLANDS Henry Solon Graves 1.50 



SHADE TREES IN TOWNS AND CITIES William Solotaroff J.00 



THE TREE GUIDE By Julia Ellen Rogers 1.00 



MANUAL FOR NORTHERN WOODSMEN Austin Cary 2.12 



FARM FORESTRY Alfred Akerman 57 



THE THEORY AWD PRACTICE OF WORKING PLANS (in forest organization) A. B. Reck- 



nagel 2.10 



ELEMENTS OF FORESTRY F. F. Moon and N. C. Brown 2.20 



MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WOOD Samuel J. Record 1.75 



STUDIES OF TREES J. J. Levison 1.75 



TREE PRUNING A. Des Cars (5 



THE PRESERVATION OF STRUCTURAL TIMBER Howard F. Weiss J.00 



THE PRACTICAL LUMBERMAN By Bernard Brereton (third edition) 1.50 



SEEDING AND PLANTING IN THE PRACTICE OF FORESTRY By James W. Tourney 3.50 



FUTURE OF FOREST TREES By Dr. Harold Unwin 2.25 



FIELD BOOK OF AMERICAN TREES AND SHRUBS F. Schuyler Mathews, 52.00 (in full leather) 3.00 



FARM FORESTRY By John Arden Ferguson 1.S0 



LUTHER BURBANK HIS METHODS AND DISCOVERIES AND THEIR PRACTICAL AP- 

 PLICATION (In twelve volumes, beautifully illustrated in color) 48.00 



THE BOOK OF FORESTRY By Frederick F. Moon 2.10 



OUR FIELD AND FOREST TREES By Maud Going 1.50 



HANDBOOK FOR RANGERS AND WOODSMEN By Jay L. B. Taylor 2.50 



THE STORY OF THE FOREST By J. Gordon Dorrance (5 



THE LAND WE LIVE IN By Overton Price 1.70 



WOOD AND FOREST By William Noyes 3.00 



THE ESSENTIALS OF AMERICAN TIMBER LAW By J. P. Kinney 3.00 



HANDBOOK OF CLEARING AND GRUBBING, METHODS AND COST By Halbert P. Gillette 2.50 



FRENCH FORESTS AND FORESTRY By Theodore S. Woolsey, Jr * 2.50 



MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS By L. H. Pammel 6.35 



WOOD AND OTHER ORGANIC STRUCTURAL MATERIALS Chas. H. Snow 5.00 



This, of course, is not a complete list, but we shall be glad to add to it any books on forestry or 

 related subjects upon request. EDITOR. 



Indians on the reservation which entirely 

 surrounds it, has continued regularly. 



The pine doors which have done service 

 for so long a period, were, according to 

 tradition, a part of the original building 

 completed in 1699. When this original 

 structure was demolished in 1793, the doors 

 were saved from ruins and made a part 

 of the present building which is built of 

 brick and stone and is of a Moorish- 

 Byzantine type of architecture. 



The pine doors are today in virtually as 

 good condition as when they were first 

 hewn from the trunks of the tree, a striking 

 example of the durability and service- 

 ability of wood as construction material, 

 the merit of which was recognized even 

 in early times as it is today when the 

 lumber industry has grown to such enor- 

 mous proportion in the United States. 



ANCIENT PINE DOORS 



ONE of the most remarkable instances 

 of the permanency of wood construction 

 has been found by Mr. John H. Kirby, 

 President of the National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers Association, in the romantic and 

 picturesque old mission church of San 

 Xavier Del Bac, nine miles from Tucson. 

 The huge wooden doors which have swung 

 open to countless thousands are today per- 

 forming the service they performed when 

 the famous old mission was built, more 

 than two hundred years ago. 



Founded in 1692, the mission, which many 

 claim to be even more beautiful than the 

 missions of California, was conducted con- 

 tinuously by resident Jesuits until 1751. 

 Then for a few years it was administered 

 as a visita from Tubac, and in 1767, fol- 



lowing the Spanish expulsion of the Jesuits, 

 was turned over to the Franciscans. This 

 order continued the work of the mission 

 until 1827, when Mexico expelled all the 

 religious orders. 



For a number of years the mission was 

 practically abandoned. After the Gadsden 

 purchase in 1854, it came into the diocese 

 of Santa Fe, but not until 1866 were the 

 missionaries from the New Mexico city 

 able to reach the Santa Cruz Valley and 

 take up the work there. 



In 1900 the Right Rev. Henry Granjon was 

 appointed bishop of Tucson. He secured 

 title from the Government for the land on 

 which the mission stands, and restored the 

 building, which had fallen into ruin to a 

 certain extent. Since that time the work 

 of the mission, including a school for the 



THE PROUD RECORD OF ONE 

 DISTRICT IN SHIPBUILDING 



FORTY-FIVE completed wooden steam- 

 ers worth $150,000,000 will have been 

 delivered to the Emergency Fleet Cor- 

 poration by the end of 1918 from Portland 

 and the Columbia river district, according 

 to a recent announcement at Portland. In 

 addition, shipbuilders of the district will 

 have launched 105 additional hulls worth 

 $50,000,000. 



This means a total contribution by this 

 section of the Pacific Coast of 540,000 tons 

 to the United States Merchant Marine 

 Fleet. The wooden shipyards of the dis- 

 trict have on hand contracts calling for 

 construction of thirteen steamers of 3,500 

 to 4,600 tons each. New contracts are 

 being awarded at frequent intervals. 



It costs $200,000 to equip a wooden hull 

 with machinery and prepare it for ocean 

 service. 



WOOD TO ROOF INDEPENDENCE 

 HALL 



WOOD in the form of shingles has 

 been decided upon as the best pos- 

 sible protection for the roof of old 

 Independence hall by the Philadelphia 

 Chapter, American Institute of Architects. 

 These are to be laid on shingle lath so they 

 will be visible from the loft, and nailed with 

 copper nails. 



The Philadelphia architect body made 

 the decision after a long and exhaustive 

 study of the subject during which all sorts 

 of roofing material was proposed. The 

 work, which is to be finished in four weeks, 

 has already been let for $5,936. The speci- 

 fications call for split, all heart shingles, 

 seven by twenty-four inches, with butts not 

 less than a half inch. 



When the work has been completed the 

 historic building will be about as fully 

 restored to its original condition as possi- 

 ble. Part of the work to be done on the 

 contract is to move the skylights from the 

 north side and place them on the south 

 side as they were originally. 



