1899. 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



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THE FORESTER. 



PUBLISHER'S ANNOUNCEMENT. 



The Forester is published monthly by the 

 American Forestry Association at 



No. 117 Corcoran Building, Washington, D. C, 



where all communications should be addressed. 



The subscription price is One Dollar a year, 

 and single copies are sold at ten cents. 



Make all checks, drafts, etc., payable to The 

 Forester. 



New Members. 



Since the last issue of The Forester the 

 following named persons have been elected to 

 membership in the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation : 



Austin Corbin, 102 Broadway, New York, 

 N. Y. 



Sydney Arnold, Box 308, North Yakima, 

 Wash. 



Wm. J. Roberts, Pullman, Wash. 



Joel Shoemaker, North Yakima, Wash. 



Geo. H. Wallis, 333 Bay St., San Francisco, 

 Cal. 



Douglas T. Fowler, Berkeley, Cal. 



Ezra F. Stephens, Crete, Neb. 



Henry O'Sullivan, Indian Lorette, Prov. 

 Quebec. 



James Dun, Topeka, Kan. 



Hon. Joseph M. Carey, Cheyenne, Wyo. 



Hon. Henry C. Dillon, 321 Bullard Block, 

 Los Angeles, Cal. 



Arthur Gunn, Wenatchee, Wash. 



Charles H. Baker, Seattle, Wash. 



Peter Koch, Bozeman, Mont. 



Henry E. Glazier, Stillwater, Okla. 



W. N. Wiley, Holly, Colo. 



Oscar R. Young, C. E. McCormick Building, 

 Salt Lake City, Utah 



Norval W. Wall, C. E., Colorado Springs, 

 Colo. 



F. A. Hutto, Stillwater, Okla. 



Walstern R. Chester, 27 Doane St., Boston, 

 Mfiss 



W.*H. Howcott, 838 Common St., New Or- 

 leans, La. 



E. L. Tebbets, Lo?ke's Mills, Maine. 



Fred Larkins, White Springs, Fla. 



Geo. J. Krebs, Cairo, 111. 



Richard Thornton Fisher, 44 Brattle St., 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



G. Fred Schwarz, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Washington, D. C. 



Nathan B. Prescott, 28 Boylston Terrace, 

 Jamaica Plain, Mass. 



C. H. Shinn, Berkeley, Cal. 



Geo. S. Edwards, Commercial Bank, Santa 



Barbara, Cal. 



A. Edwards, Commercial Bank, Santa Bar- 

 bara, Cal. 



C. H. Frink, 725 State St., Santa Barbara, 

 Cal. 



E. P. Dunn, Arlington Hotel, Santa Barbara, 

 Cal. 



Clio L. Lloyd, Morning Press, Santa Bar- 

 bara, Cal. 



R. F. Winchester, M. D., Santa Barbara, 

 Cal. 



J. M. McNulty, M. D., Santa Barbara, Cal. 



D. B. Harmony, 



E. C. Tallant, 

 E. M. Pyle, 

 E. C. Roeder, 

 Jonn F. Diehl, 

 P. A. Canant, 

 T. R. Dawe, 

 Garrett S. Richard?, 



C. A. Storke, 

 Bennett Fithian, 

 A. W. Maulsly, 



O. A. Stafford, Hope, Cal. 



D. L. Wiggins, Ashland, Wis. 

 C. F. Latimer, Ashland, Wis. 

 Frederick Abbot, Milwaukee, Wis. 

 Mack Morris, Trenton, Tenn. 



Life Member. 



Mrs. Edward Whitney, Belmont, Mass. 



To the Editor: 



I note in your last issue the patriotic criti- 

 cism which the reviewer of the Bulletin on 

 " Measuring the Forest Crop " makes because- 

 the cubic foot measure has been employed, at the- 

 same time breaking a lance for the American 

 lumber foot. 



In this attempt the critic recommends and at 

 the same time discredits the usual log rules, 

 which, as is well known, are not really a meas- 

 ure but a complex agreement dependent in 

 part on volume and on usage in conversion. 



Will you please explain for the benefit of 

 your readers how one can measure trees di- 

 rectly with the lumber foot, and how, for in- 

 stance, a pulpman may know how much a 

 given parcel of land or a lot of logs contains, if 

 the report merely gives the amount of ma- 

 terial according to the Doyle or Scribner rule. 

 Sincerely yours, 



Wm. B. Howard. 



TJtica, N. Y., March 31, 1899. 



In our criticism of Bulletin No. 20 of 

 the Division of Forestry, "Measuring 

 the Forest Crop," by A. K. Mlodziansky, 

 in the March number of The Forester, 

 we did not state that directions for com- 

 puting the contents of trees in cubic feet 

 should have been entirely omitted, but 



