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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



September 1917 Vol. 23 



CONTENTS 



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The First Forest Regiment Goes Across By Bristow 

 Adams 517 



Widespread Activity in Home Food Thrift By Charles 

 Lathrop Pack 519 



Forest Fires Burn Much Timber 520 



War and the Food Problem By Norman C. McLoud.. 521 

 With nineteen iMustrations. 



What About Tree Surgery By J. Horace McFarland.. 531 

 With thirteen illustrations. 



Value of Grazing Management on the Caribou National 



Forest By C. H. Shattuck 536 



With four illustrations. 



The Mockingbird Family^By A. A. Allen . 

 With seven illustrations. 



539 



Queen Anne's Lace; the Papaw Tree, and Self Heal By 



R. W. Shufeldt 543 



With eight illustrations. 



Turning a Desert Into Fertile Soil By Robert H. Moul- 



ton 549 



Willi four illustrations. 



The Le Conte Oaks 551 



With one illustration. 



Forestry for Boys and Girls By Bristow Adams 552 



Our Snakes a National Asset By Gayne T. Norton .... 555 

 With seven illustrations. 



Forestry and the War By Charles Lathrop Pack.. 



The Blue Mesa Forest Fire By Henry L. Spencer. 

 With seven illustrations. 



Fighting the Pine Blister Rust 



Western Quails Being Exterminated By R. W. Shufeldt 

 With five illustrations. 



Canadian Department 



Extension of Lacey's Orgemization. 

 Current Literature 



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SPECIAL OFFER TO MEMBERS ONLY | 



One of the following described books will be presented free of charge to any member of the | 



American Forestry Association who secures ONE NEW subscribing member: | 



No. 1 Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs, 465 pages, 275 illustrations of trees, leaves, | 



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. | 



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CopyrlKlit, 1917, by the American Forestry Association 



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