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CURRENT 



LITERATURE 



MONTHLY LIST FOR NOVEMBER, 1918 



(Books and periodicals indexed in the 

 iibrary of the United States Forest Service.) 



FORESTRY AS A WHOLE 

 Proceedings and reports of associations, forest 

 officers, etc. 



Hongkong, China Botanical and forestry 



dept. Report for the year 1917. 18 p. 



Hongkong, 1918. 

 New York Conservation commission. 



Seventh annual report, 1917. 130 p. 



pi. Albany, 1918. 



FOREST EDUCATION 

 Arbor day 



Connecticut Board of education. Arbor 

 and bird day manual, 1918. 16 p. 

 Hartford, Conn., 1918. 



South Dakota Dept of public instruction. 

 South Dakota arbor and bird day, 1916. 

 166 p. Pierre, S. D., 1916. 



FOREST INVESTIGATIONS 



Beuzeville, W. A. W. de. Determination 

 of increment by stem analysis. 14 p. 

 diagrs. Sydney, N. S. W., 1918. (N. S. 

 W. Forestry commission. Bulletin 

 no. 13.) 



SILVICULTURE 



Planting and nursery practice 



Mawson, T. H. Afforestation and the par- 

 tially disabled. 45 p. it, maps. Lon- 

 don, Grant Richards, Ltd., 1917. 



Shattuck, C. H. and Cook, I. W. Trees; 

 what, where, when and how to plant. 

 66 p. il. Moscow, Idaho, 1918. (Idaho 

 Agricultural experiment station. Bul- 

 letin 105.) 



FOREST PROTECTION 



Maine Dept. of forestry. Forest protec- 

 tion and conservation in Maine, 1917. 

 202 p. il., maps. Augusta, 1918. 



Insects 



Chamberlin, W. J. Bark-beetles infesting 

 the Douglas fir. 40 p. il. Corvallis, 

 Ore., 1918. (Oregon Agricultural ex- 

 periment station. Bulletin 147.) 



Diseases of trees 



McMurran, S. M. Preventing wood rot in 

 pecan trees. 8 p. il. Wash., D. C, 

 1918. (U. S. Dept. of agriculture. 

 Farmers' bulletin 995.) 



Weir, J. R. and Hubert, E. E. A study of 

 heart rot in western hemlock. 39 p. 

 il. Wash., D. C, 1918. (U. S. Dept. 

 of agriculture. Bulletin 722.) 



Fire 



Holmes, J. S. Forest fires in North Caro- 

 lina during 1915, 1916 and 1917. 97 p. 

 Raleigh, N. C, 1918. (N. C Geologi- 

 cal survey. Economic paper no. 48.) 

 FOREST LEGISLATION 



Oregon Laws, statutes, etc. Oregon forest 

 fire laws enacted by the legislative as- 

 sembly, 1911-1917. 16 p. Salem, Ore., 

 State printing dept., 1918. 



FOREST ADMINISTRATION 



Boerker, R. H. D. Our national forests. 

 238 p. pi., maps, diagrs. N. Y., The 

 Macmillan co., 1918. 



United States Dept. of agriculture For- 

 est service. October field program, 

 1918. 32 p. Wash., D. C, 1918. 



FOREST UTILIZATION 



Secrest, E. Meeting the wood-fuel situa- 

 tion. 10 p. il. Wooster, O., Agri- 

 cultural experiment station, 1918. 



Secrest, E. War time uses of timber. 8 p. 

 il. Wooster, O., Agricultural experi- 

 ment station, 1918. 



AUXILIARY SUBJECTS 



National parks 



Schroter, C. Ueber die flora des national- 

 parkgebietes im Unterengadin, von. C. 

 Schroter; Les formes topographiques 

 du Pare national Suisse, par E. Chaix. 

 50 p. il., pi., maps. Bern, Stampfli & 

 cie, 1918. 



Botany 



Trelease, Wm. Winter botany. 394 p. il. 

 Urbana, 111., Pub. by the author, 1918. 



Ecology 



Sampson, A. W. Climate and plant growth 

 in certain vegetative associations. 72 

 p. il., diagrs. Wash., D. C, 1918. (U. 

 S Dept. of agriculture. Bulletin 700.) 



Poisonous plants 



Fleming, C. E. Range plants poisonous to 

 sheep and cattle in Nevada. 51 p. il., 

 pi. Reno, Nev., 1918. (Nevada 

 Agricultural experiment station. Bul- 

 letin 95.) 



Erosion 



Ramser, C. E. Terracing farm lands. 40 p. 

 il. Wash., D. C, 1918. (U. S. Dept. 

 of agriculture. Farmers' bulletin 997.) 



Aeronautics 



Great Britain War Cabinet. Report on 

 aircraft supply of Great Britain and 

 discussion of the difficulties involved 

 in production. 8 p. Wash., D. C, 

 1918. (Smithsonian institution. Mis- 

 cellaneous collections, v. 69, no. 7.) 

 PERIODICAL ARTICLES 



Miscellaneous periodicals 



Agricultural gazette of Canada, Sept., 1918. 

 Studies on the relation of forest 

 insects and other factors to forest re- 

 generation, by J. M. Swaine, p. 860-1. 



American city, town and county edition, 

 Sept., 1918. Forestry for public parks 

 and large estates, by P. L. Buttrick, p. 

 183-92. 



American sheep breeder, Oct., 1918. Im- 

 provement and maintenance of far 

 western ranges, by J. T. Jardine, p. 

 635-8 ; Sheep and oil ; Wyoming and 

 its sheep ranges, by W. C. Barnes, p. 

 642-3. 



Conservation, Nov., 1918. New wood found 

 for making newsprint, by C. Leavitt, 

 p. 41, 43; Cutting methods are key to 

 forest wealth, by C. Leavitt, p. 42 ; 

 Stock taking of the forests of British 

 Columbia is completed, p. 44; Produc- 

 ing alcohol from wood waste, by J. S. 

 Bates, p. 44. 



Colorado highways bulletin, Nov., 1918. 

 Attractive roadsides part of highways 

 work, by R. E. Pratt, p. 4-5. 



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New York State 



College of 



Forestry 



at 



Syracuse University, 



Syracuse, N. Y. 



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 Technical Forestry, Paper and 

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 Bachelor of Science. Special oppor- 

 tunities offered for post-graduate 

 work leading to degrees of Master of 

 Forestry, Master of City Forestry, 

 and Doctor of Economics. 



A one-year course of practical 

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 on the College Forest of i,8oo acres 

 at Wanakena in the Adirondacks. 



State Forest Camp of three months 

 open to any man over 16, held each 

 summer on Cranberry Lake. Men 

 may attend this Camp for from two 

 weeks to the entire summer. 



The State Forest Experiment Sta- 

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 excellent forest library offer unusual 

 opportunities for research work. 



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The Pennsylvania 

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PROFESSIONAL course in 



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Thorough and practical training for 

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 Graduates who wish to specialize 

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 pletion of one year's work. 



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