AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Teachers Commend American Forestry 



" I am very much pleased with American 

 Forestry. It will serve a valuable purpose 

 in several of our classes, and I am glad 

 that we may profit by this addition to our 

 teaching equipment." 



W. C. Ash, Principal, 

 Philadelphia Trades School. 



" I am sure our students, through the 

 perusal of this excellent magazine, will 

 evidence greater interest in the preserva- 

 tion of trees and tree life." 



L. A. Lettixgkr, Instructor, 

 Philadelphia Trades School. 



" Our science work is very closely related 

 to the vital questions of the day and this 

 magazine will be a distinct contribution." 

 W. D. Lewis, Principal, 

 William Pcnn High School r or Girls, 



Phila., Pa. 



" We are very much pleased with Ameri- 

 can Forestry and will endeavor to have our 

 children and teachers make the best pos- 

 sible use of it." 



Emma V. Tindall, 

 Supervising Principal, Benjamin B. 

 Comcgys Public School, Phila., Pa. 



"American Forestry will be used to 

 much advantage by our boys and girls." 

 Charles A. Coulcomb. 

 Supervising Principal, Henry C. Lea 

 Public School, Phila., Pa. 



" American Forestry is of great interest 

 and educational value." 



David H. Stout, Principal. 

 Philadelphia Normal School for Girls. 



"Our botanical classes will find Ameri- 

 can Forestry very valuable." 



B. A. Fennimore, 

 Teacher in Charge, Northeast High 



School for Girls, Phila., Pa. 



" Both the children and the Faculty of 

 the Bartram School appreciate American 

 Forestry." 



Margaret T. Rii.k, Principal, 

 William Bartram Public School, Phila., Pa. 



" We are very glad to have the oppor- 

 tunity of using American Forestry and it 

 has already been put in the department of 

 Nature Study." 



Mary E. Dwier, 



Philadelphia Normal School for Girls. 



"American Forestry is a valuable and 

 interesting magazine and I am sure the 

 children and the teachers will enjoy it and 

 profit by it." 



M. McAi.i-ine, Supervising Principal, 

 Hamilton Public School, Phila., Pa. 



" The teachers of science are delighted to 

 have American Forestry to help them in 

 their work." 



Mary V. Shea, Acting Head, 

 West Philadelphia High School for Girls, 



Phila., Pa. 



" American Forestry is a publication that 

 has a direct bearing on much of the instruc- 

 tion now given in our science courses." 

 Parke Schoch, Principal, 

 West Philadelphia High School for Girls, 



Phila., Pa. 



" We find American Forestry most valu- 

 able and interesting." 



Robert E. Thompson, President, 

 Central High School, Phila., Pa. 



" American Forestry is to be made ac- 

 cessible to the pupils so that it may really 

 serve the purpose for which it is designed." 

 Mary S. Holmes, 

 Asst. to Principal, Germantown High 



School, Phila., Pa. 



" I shall make every endeavor possible to 

 see that the children get as much benefit 

 from American Forestry as possible, and I 

 am sure the magazine will afford many 

 pleasant as well as valuable moments for 

 both the teachers and pupils." 



I. E. Stetler, Supervising Principal, 

 Samuel B. Hucy Public School, Phila., Pa. 



" American Forestry finds interested 

 readers here, for we have in the school a 

 i'orestry chapter of our Nature Club which is 

 doing good work in interesting other stu- 

 dents in the care and conservation of trees." 

 Katharine E. Pi-ncheon, Principal, 

 Philadelphia High School for Girls, 

 Phila., Pa. 



Mr. Beede Made Secretary 



Mr. Victor A. Beede, Assistant State For- 

 ester of New Hampshire, has been elected 

 Executive Secretary of the New York 

 State Forestry Association, with head- 

 quarters at the Chamber of Commerce 

 Building, Syracuse, New York. Mr. Beede 

 is a graduate of Yale University, the Yale 

 Forest School, and has had considerable 

 experience along forestry lines. Follow- 

 ing his graduation he visited France, Ger- 

 many and Switzerland, and observed his 

 forest practice in those countries. He has 

 served as Forester and Assistant Secretary 

 of the Massachusetts Forestry Association 

 and as Forest Assistant on the Pike Na- 

 tional Forest in Colorado. Mr. Beede will 

 take up his new position on November 1st. 



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Book News 

 Seeding and Planting in the Practice of 



Forestry, by James W. Tourney, M.I).. 



M.A., 454 pages, cloth $3.50. John Wiley 



& Sons, Inc., New York City. Prof. 



Tourney is director of the Forest School 



and Professor of Silviculture at Yale 



University. 



This book presents both the details of 

 practice and the fundamental principles 

 that control success and failure in the 

 economic production of nursery stock and 

 the artificial regeneration of forests. It 

 explains the why as well as the how. The 

 author states in his preface: "The practi- 

 tioner must have a clear appreciation of 

 underlying principles or he cannot be safely 

 trusted to direct the details of nursery 

 practice, seeding and planting. He must 

 have a broad knowledge of methods and 

 tools in order that he may attain successful 

 regeneration at the least cost." Almost 

 without exception, the cultural methods de- 

 scribed and the tools and machines figured 

 have been used by the author, or the results 

 of the work observed by him in this country 

 or abroad. Part I of the book deals with 

 the silvical basis for seeding and planting, 

 more particularly the principles which 

 underlie the choice of species, the closeness 

 of spacing and the composition of the stand. 

 Part II is descriptive of the various opera- 

 tions in artificial regeneration and the 

 results that may be expected from the 

 best practice. 



A Correction 



On page 420 of the July number of 

 American Forestry there appears a series 

 of questions under the title of " Advice 

 for Many Here." J. S. Illick, acting direc- 

 tor of the State Forest Academy at Mont 

 Alto, Pennsylvania, takes exception to the 

 following from the answer to question 3 : 

 " The Balsam Fir is native to the Adiron- 

 dack Mountain section, hut not in Pennsyl- 

 vania." Mr. Illick says : " The latter part 

 of this statement is not correct. The 

 Balsam Fir (Abies balsamca) is native 

 to the counties of Pike, Monroe, Sullivan. 

 Lycoming, Clinton, Tioga, McKean, and 

 Center, in the State of Pennsylvania. Its 

 distribution is local, but in the well watered 

 portions, especially swamps, of the above- 

 named counties the tree is quite common. 

 In the Bear Meadow region of Center 

 County it covers a considerable area, and 

 about the many lakes in Pike and Monroe 

 Counties it is . found rather abundant. 

 Furthermore, it even extends along the 

 Allegheny Mountains to Virginia." 



Pine for Kraft Paper 



Experiments with jack pine have shown 

 that it is well suited for making kraft paper. 

 On some of the National Forests this tree 

 is used to plant land which is too poor to 

 grow other timber. 





