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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Current Literature 



MONTHLY LIST FOR DECEMBER, 

 1916 



(Books and periodicals indexed in the library 

 of the United States Forest Service.) 



FORESTRY AS A WHOLE 



Proceedings and reports of associations, forest 

 officers, etc. 



India Forest dept. Quinquennial review of 

 forest administration in British India for 

 the period 1909-10 to 1913-14, to which 

 is appended the annual return of forest 

 statistics for the year 1913-14. 43p. 

 diagr. Simla, 1915. 



Forest Education 



Georgia, University of State college of agri- 

 culture Extension division. Corre- 

 spondence courses in agriculture: farm 

 forestry, lesson 1. The tree. 8 p. 

 Athens, Ga., 1915. 



Idaho, University of School of forestry. 

 Announcements concerning the courses 

 to be offered in forestry. 1915-1916. 16 p. 

 il. Moscow, Id., 1915. 



Minnesota, University of College of forestry. 

 Announcement, 1915-1916. 26 p. Minne- 

 apolis, Minn., 1915. 



Montana, University of Forest school. Short 

 course for forest rangers: announcement, 

 7th, 1916. Missoula, Mont., 1915. 



Washington, University of College of for- 

 estry. Announcement, 8th session, Jan- 

 uary 3 to March 28, 1916; practical short 

 courses in forestry, logging and lumber- 

 ing. 4 p. Seattle, Wash., 1915. 



Forest Description 



Barton, J . E. The forests of Kentucky. 2 p. 

 Frankfort, Ky., 1915. (Kentucky State 

 forester. Circular 3.) 



Forest Investigations 



Japan Dept. of agriculture and commerce 

 Bureau of forestry. Extracts from the 

 bulletin of the forest experiment station, 

 Meguro, Tokyo. 221 p. il., pi., diagr. 

 Tokyo, Japan, 1915. 



Studies of species 



Mattoon, Wilbur R. Shortleaf pine: its 

 economic importance and forest manage- 

 ment. 67p. il., pi. Wash., D. C, 1915. 

 (U. S. Dept. of agriculture. Bulletin 

 308.) 



North Carolina Geological and economic 

 survey. Loblolly or North Caroline pine. 

 2 p. Chapel Hill, N. C, 1915. (Press 

 bulletin 149.) 



Stuckey, H. P. Pecans: varieties, influences 

 of climate, soil, and stock on cion. 30 p. 

 il. Experiment, Ga., 1915. (Georgia 

 Agricultural experiment station. Bulle- 

 tin 1 16.) 



Forest Influences 



Wicks, Moye. Deforestation and reforesta- 

 tion as affecting climate, rain and pro- 

 duction. 11 p. Austin, Tex., 1915. 



(Texas Dept. of agriculture. Bulletin, 

 n. ser., no. 17.) 



Forest Mensuration 



McKenzie, H. E. A discussion of log rules: 

 their limitations and suggestions for cor- 

 rection. 56 p. Sacramento, Cal., 1915. 

 (California State board of forestry. 

 Bulletin no. 5.) 



Forest Protection 



Insects 



Glenn, Pressley A. The San Jose scale. 

 24 p. il., pi. Urbana, 111., 1915. (Illinois 

 Agricultural experiment station. Cir- 

 cular no. 180.) 



Diseases 



Fawcett, Howard S. Melaxuma of the wal- 

 nut, Juglans regia: a preliminary report. 

 16 p. il. Berkeley, Cal., 1915. (California 

 Agricultural experiment station. Bul- 

 letin 261.) 



Smoke and vapors 



Holmes, J. A., and others. Report of the Selby 

 smelter commission. 528 p. il., pi., 

 maps, diagr. Wash., D. C, 1915. (U. 

 S. Dept. of the interior Bureau of 

 mines. Bulletin 98.) 



Forest Legislation 



United States Dept. of agriculture Forest 

 service. State forestry laws; Idaho, 

 through regular session, 1915. 5 p. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. 



United States Dept. of agriculture Forest 

 service. State forestry laws ; New Jersey, 

 through regular session, 1915. 7 p. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. 



Forest Administration 



Fernow, Bernhard Eduard. Cooperation in 

 forestry. 9 p. Ottawa, Canada, Com- 

 mission of conservation, 1915. 



Kentucky State forester. Progress of for- 

 estry in Kentucky. 6 p. Frankfort, 

 Ky., 1915. 



United States Dept. of agriculture Forest 

 service. Government forest work. 19 p. 

 Wash., D. C, 1915. 



United States Dept. of agriculture Forest 

 service. National forests by districts. 

 9 p. map. Wash., D. C, 1915. 



Forest Utilization 



Forest products federation. Report of com- 

 mittees 1 and 3. Chicago, 111., 1915. 



Lumber industry. 



Smith, Franklin H. Teak in Siam and Indo- 



China. 21 p. Wash., D. C, 1915. 



(U. S. Dept. of commerce Bureau of 



foreign and domestic commerce. Special 



agents series no. 108.) 



Wood-using industries 



Lockwood's directory of the paper, stationery 



and allied trades. 41st ed. N. Y., 



Lockwood tr. jour, co., 1916. 



Forest by-products 



Vermont Maple Sugar Makers' Association 

 Proceedings of the 21st annual meeting, 

 January 6-7, 1914. 48 p. St. Albans, 

 Vt., 1914. 



Auxiliary Subjects 



Irrigation 



United States Reclamation service. Coop- 

 erative investigations in California: U. S. 

 Reclamation service in cooperation with 

 the Northern California irrigation associa- 

 tion. Report on Lower Pit River project. 

 55 p. pi., maps. Wash., D. C, 1915. 



Erosion 



Miller, M. F. The control of soil washing. 

 12 p. il. Columbia, Mo., 1915. (Miss- 

 ouri Agricultural experiment station. 

 Circular 78.1 



Periodical Articles 



Miscellaneous periodicals 



Annals of botany, Oct., 1915. On the ribbing 

 of the seed of Ginkgo, by M. F. A. 

 Affourtit and H. C. C. La Riviere, 

 p. 591-5. 

 Botanical Gazette, Nov., 1915. The influence 

 of the tannin content of the host plant 

 on Endothia parasitica and related 

 species, by Melville Thurston Cook, and 

 Guy West Wilson, p. 346-61; Studies of 

 Diospyros kaki, by Kono Yasui, p. 

 362-73; The influence of ether on the 

 growth of Endothia, by Melville Thurs- 

 ton Cook and Guy West Wilson,p.412-13. 



Bulletin of the Pan American union, Nov., 

 1915. The saman or rain tree, p. 680-4. 



Canadian magazine, Nov., 1915. Our great 

 national waste, by F. M. Turner, Jr., 

 p. 1-8. 



Conservation, Dec, 1915. Forestry in Japan, 

 by A. Nakai, p. 47. 



Country gentleman, Nov. 20, 1915. Planting 

 idle pastures, by F. F. Moon, p. 1773. 



Far eastern review, Oct., 1915. The defores- 

 tation of China, p. 167-70. 



Gardeners' chronicle, Oct. 30, 1915. Cupres- 

 sus lawsoniana, by A. Bruce Jackson, 

 p. 272. 



Harper's weekly, Oct. 9, 1915. Fire fighters, 

 by W. P. Lawson, p. 350-1. 



House and garden, Nov., 1915. Forestry at 

 home; the work to do in any woodlot, 

 by F. von Hoffman, p. 15-17, 60. 



In the open, Oct., 1915. The Norway spruce: 

 its value, how to plant it, facts about 

 growth, advice on cultivation, by George 

 H. Wirt, p. 43-7. 



Reclamation record, Oct., 1915. Tree plant- 

 ing on the Umatilla project, p. 466-7. 



Science, Nov. 19, 1915. The effect of cyanide 

 on the locust-borer and the locust tree, by 

 Wesley P. Flint, p. 726-7. 



Technical world magazine, July, 1915. 

 Making the plains into forests, by A. 

 Fullerton, p. 647-8. 



Technical world magazine, Aug., 1915. 

 Finding uses for waste wood, by Rene 1 

 Bache, p. 757-9. 



