,uv 



liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiininiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinniiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiifl^ 



I AMERICAN FORESTRY 



THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION | 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor I 



November 1917 Vol. 23 



CONTENTS 



No. 287 



iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiililiiiiiiiliii 



Relief Fund for the Forestry Regiments 643 



Foresters in World's Largest Regiment 644 



With fifteen illustrations. 



American Foresters in Military Service 6S2 



Forestry at Bates College 655 



Tree's Long Journey on Truck. 



With one illustration. 



The Pine By Mabel Powers (Yeh sen noh wehs- 



Tells the Stories) 



With one illustration. 



"Doctor Mountain" By Mark Daniels 



With Seven Illustrations. 



-One Who 



The Nuthatches and the Chickadees- 

 With eleven illustrations. 



-By A. A. Allen. 



655 



656 

 657 

 .663 

 667 

 668 

 669 

 674 



675 



Tree Saved by a Governor By Allen H. Wright 675 



With one illustration. 



A Trail Marker By Lena B. Hunzicker 



With one illustration. 



A Quaint Bit of Sentiment By Gayne T. K. Norton. 

 With one illustration. 



Flowers, Feathers and Fins By R. W. Shufeldt. . . . 

 With twelve illustrations. 



Women Help to Fight Forest Fires 



With three photographs. 



Conservation in Autumn Leaves 



Urban and Suburban Food Production Its Past and its 



Future By Charles Lathrop Pack 676 



Forestry for Boys and Girls "Shoes and Ships and Sealing 

 Wax" By Bristow Adams 678 



Children's Playgrounds in Parks and Forests By Smith 



Riley 680 



With six illustrations. 



Hybrid Oaks By George B. Sudworth 683 



With five illustrations. 



A Tree That Produces Soap 686 



With one illustration. 



Edible Fruits of Forest Trees 



Fighting the Pine Blister Disease 



Our Forest Resources and the War By E. A. Sterling. 



, 687 

 . 688 

 . 689 



Editorial 691 



Forestry as a Profession for Young Men in the United 

 States. 



Bad Forest Fire Season 692 



How a Successful Suburban House is Built By Rawson W. 



Haddon 

 With four illustrations. 



Book Reviews 



Canadian Department. 

 Current Literature.... 



693 



695 

 697 

 699 



lllllllll 



iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiy 



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, J 



blossoms, fruits, seeds, area of growth, etc. 1 



No. 2 Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music, 262 pages, 38 colored and 15 other full- | 



page illustrations. 



No. 3 Field Book of American Wild Flowers, 587 pages, 24 colored plates and 215 full-page 



illustrations. 



FILL OUT THIS BLANK 



I present for Subscribing Membership in the AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION, 

 including American Forestry Magazine, and enclose $3.00 for the 1917 fee- 



Name. 



Send Book No. 



Address City . 



to Name 



Address City 



$2.00 of above fee is for AMERICAN FORESTRY for One Year. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY is published monthly by the American Forestry Association. 



Subscription price without membership, three dollars per year; single copies, twenty-five cents. 



Entered as second-clasg mall matter December 24, 1909 at the Poat-offlce at Washington, under the Act of March 3, 1879 



Copyright. 1917, by the American Forestry Association 



iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin^ 



II 



