AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The Magazine of the American Forestry Association 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



Herman H. Chapman 

 Ernest A. Sterling 



EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 



S. T. Dana 



Frederick S. Underbill 



John E. Rhodes 

 S. N. Spring 



March. 1916. Vol. 22 



CONTENTS 



No. 267 



Cover Picture in Colors Western Red Cedar Forest. 



Photograph Copyrighted by Darius Kinsey. 



Western Red Cedar Identification and Characteristics By 



S. B. Detwiler 131 



With three illustrations. 



Commercial Uses of Western Red Cedar By H. P. Wyckoff. . 13-1 

 With three illustrations. 



The White Pine Blister Rust Situation By Dr. Perley Spaulding 137 

 With one illustration. 



North Carolina's Meeting 138 



Mesa Verde and Casa Grande National Parks By Mark 



Daniels 139 



With twelve illustrations. 



The Bird Department How to Attract Summer Birds By 



A. A. Allen '. 146 



With fourteen illustrations. 



Kraft Paper and Its Uses By W. R. Brown 150 



With seventeen illustrations. 



What Makes Bird's-Eye Maple? 153 



The National Forests By Hon. David F. Houston 153 



With seven illustrations. 



Children's Department Making Maple Sugar By Bristow 



Adams 158 



With five illustrations. 



Ornamental and Shade Trees Fungus Diseases of Trees, By 



R. B. Maxwell, edited by J. J. Levison 161 



With four illustrations. 



The Moral Element of Conservation By Charles W. Eliot, 



Vice-President of the American Forestry Association 165. 



With one photograph. 



Seventeen Palms Spring I66> 



With one photograph. 



Conditions in French Forests 167 



With one illustration. 



"If" With Apologies to Kipling Poem by Harris A. Reynolds 168 



Georgia State Forest School 169 



With one illustration. 



Joseph Austin Holmes An Appreciation, By W. W. Ashe 170 



With one photograph. 



Mechanical Fire Fighting Equipment By G. Gerald Blyth. ... 171 

 With two illustrations. 



Food Trees By Alice M. Long 172 



Uses of Lumber Warren B. Bullock 173 



Town Forests and the Lincoln Highway By Harris A. Reynolds 174 



Editorial: State Forestry Organizations and Problems 176 



What They Say about American Forestry 178 



Canadian Department By Ellwood Wilson 178 



Current Literature 179 



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