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AMERICAN FORESTRY | 



THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



March 1918 Vol. 24 



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CONTENTS No. 291 



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The Cover "It's chuck in the day and a bunk in the night" From 

 "Tote Road and Trail," by Douglas Malloch. Copyrighted by the 

 Krapp Company, Inc. 



Frontispiece The Beeches. 



Flying on Wings of Spruce By E. A. Sterling 133 



With eight illustrations. 



The Abomination of Desolation 140 



With one illustration. 



Americans in the French Forests By Henry S. Graves 141 



Forest Service Man Selected as City Manager of Albuquerque 144 



With one photograph. 



Blasting Stumps Near Buildings By John N. Lewis 144 



With one illustration. 



"Perhaps Our Greatest National Park" By Robert Sterling Yard 145 



With seven illustrations. 



Studies of Leaf and Tree (Part III) By R. W. Shufeldt 151 



With seventeen illustrations. 



A Tree Guessing Contest By J. S. Holmes 159 



The Humming-Birds and Swifts By A. A. Allen 160 



With twelve illustrations. 



How the Forest Service Has Helped the Stockmen By Albert F. Potter 165 

 With four illustrations. 



Tree Tied in a Knot 



With one illustration. 



Ship Built of Mahogany. 

 .With one illustration. 



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Nuts: A Substitute for Meat By A. Mildred Brennan 



With three illustrations. 



New Home of Forestry at the University of California 173 



With four illustrations. 



Donations to the Welfare Fund for Lumbermen and Foresters 177 



Slacker Land and Food Facts By Charles Lathrop Pack 178 



American Foresters in Military Service (Roster) . . -. 180 



Canadian Department By Ellwood Wilson. 188 





GIANT TREES FOR UNCLE SAM'S NEED 



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This Is the type of tree, with its fine, clear length of lumber, now being 

 taken from the wonderful torests of Washington and Oregon to meet the war- 

 time emergency in ship and airplane construction. The tree was 180 feet 

 high and at the point where the top was taken off, 22 inches in diameter. 

 The 'top was taken off by an expert in twenty minutes. 



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Fntered as second-class mail matter December 24, 1909, at the Post-office at Washington, 

 under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1918, by the American Forestry Association. 



