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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION 



PERCIVAL SHELDON RIDSDALE, Editor 



August 1919 Vol. 25 



CONTENTS 



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No. 308 



iraph by courtesy Brown & Dawson, IV. Y. 



THE CORYPHA TREE, AT ST. GEORGES, GRENADA 



This tree is remarkable for the (act that it lives ten 

 years, bears (lowers and (ruit, and then dies. 



matter December 24, 1909, at the Post- 



it Washington, under ihe Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 



■ rican Forestry Association. Acceptance for 



mailing at special rale of postage provided for in Section 1103. 



October 3. 1917, authorized July 11, 1918. 



Belgium's Forests Blighted by the Hun — By Percival Sheldon Ridsdale 1251 

 With twelve illustrations. 



The Northwest's Worst Forest Fires. 



Prevention of Forest Fire Losses — By Smith Riley. 

 With seven illustrations. 



1259 

 1260 



Forest Destruction Prevented by Control of Surface Fires — By 

 Joseph A. Kitts 1264 



Uncle Sam, Lumberman, Canal Zone — By W. H. Babbitt. 

 With five illustrations. 



For Them a Tree Stands There 



With five illustrations. 



National Honor Roll, Memorial Trees. 



Mysteries and Revelations of the Plant World — By D. Lange 

 With fourteen illustrations. 



1265 



1268 



1270 

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A National Forest Policy — The Proposed Legislation — By Henry S. 



Graves 1281 



A Discussion of Methods — By R. S. Kellogg 1282 



Pennsylvania's Opinion — By George H. Wirt 1283 



Control of Growing Forests— By Alfred Gaskill 1284 



The Seventeen-Year Locust — By R. W. Shufeldt. 

 With four illustrations. 



1285 



Dr. Fernow, Dean of Foresters, Retires 1289 



Douglass "Killed in Action" 1289 



Graduates of the New York State College of Forestry Granted Amer- 

 ican-Scandinavian Fellowship 1289 



Forestry for Boys and Girls — The Pine Woods Folk — By E. G. Cheyney 1290 



The Gulls and Terns— By A. A. Allen. 

 With ten illustrations. 



1291 



City Tree Planting 1295 



Editors Take up Forest Matters 1296 



Forestry — The Relation of Wood to the Development of Civilization — 



By William Carson 1297 



With one illustration. 



Use of Cut-Over Lands. 



1298 



State News 1299 



Minnesota Kentucky 



Maryland Illinois 



New Jersey Georgia 



Canadian Department — By Ellwood Wilson 1302 



Pigeons Will Protect Forests 1306 



Book Reviews 1307 



Current Literature 1309 



