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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



January 1919 Vol. 25 



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CONTENTS 



No. 301 



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IN THE WASHINGTON NATIONAL FOREST 



A beautiful waterfall, with a drop of Ave hundred 

 feet, on a tributary of the Skagit River 



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

 Postofftce at Washington, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 

 'ight, 1919, by the American Forestry Association. Accep- 

 tance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in 

 ii 1103. Act of October 3, 1917, authorized July 11, 1918. 



Frontispiece "A Mighty Tree" Poem. 



Victory Gardens By Charles Lathrop Pack 771 



With eighteen illustrations. 



Theodore Roosevelt Conservationist 778 



With one illustration. 



Trees For Memorials 779 



With three illustrations. 



Care For the Birds in Winter 781 



Uses of the Brazil Nut Tree By C. H. Pearson 782 



With five illustrations. 



The Possibilities of Farm Woodland Development Under the Smith- 

 Lever Act By C. R. Tillotson 785 



With four illustrations. 



Digest of Opinions on Forestry 788 



To Help Reforest France 789 



With one illustration. 



Forestry for Boys and Girls By E. G. Cheyney 790 



Gather Walnuts for Planting 792 



The Timber Census in the Northeastern States 792 



The Sandpipers By A. A. Allen 793 



With eleven illustrations. 



Pruning for Profit By Will C. Barnes 798 



With two illustrations. 



To Purchase Additional Lands for Eastern National Forests 806 



How Wood Compares With Coal in Heating Value 806 



The Uses of Wood Wooden Artificial Limbs By Hu Maxwell 807 



With twenty-one illustrations. 



The National Army and Training in Forestry By James W. Toumey.. 816 



Sale of Surplus Farm Timber 817 



Control of Private Forest Cutting By W. Darrow Clark 818 



Renascence of the Wooden Meeting House By Joy Wheeler Dow 819 



With seven illustrations. 



Secretary Houston Urges Protection of Forests 822 



Alphabet Grown on Trees By H. E. Zimmerman 823 



With one illustration. 



Canadian Department By Ellwood Wilson 825 



Book Reviews 82 " 



Current Literature 828 



