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September, 



argument in favor of its removal is that if it is 

 invaded by fire it will be destroyed. This is un- 

 doubtedly true, and it brings them squarely to 

 the question whether they are not entitled to 

 the protection for which they pay taxes ? Ample 

 legislation is upon the statute books if they will 

 use their influence to have those apprehended 

 who create the fires which destroy their prop- 

 erty. There is no doubt whatever that it is not 

 only the duty of the county commissioners, 

 when possible, to ferret out, but to try, by legal 

 process, those who are guilty of destroying by 

 fire the forest property of our citizens, and fail- 

 ure to do so may well be construed as an act of 

 infidelity to duty." 



Several pages of statistics about the forest 

 fires of 1898, compiled by R. S. Conklin, are ap- 

 pended to the report. 



Paper in Foreign Countries Uses of Wood 

 Pulp. Vol. XIX. of the U. S. Consular Re- 

 ports. 



This is a five-hundred page volume of Con- 

 sular Reports on the manufacture and consump- 

 tion of paper in foreign countries and the ma- 

 terials used for its production. These reports 

 are based on a list of questions propounded by 

 the American Paper and Pulp Association. 

 There is no attempt to summarize or classify 

 the reports, but as their chief purpose is to give 

 information in regard to particular foreign 

 markets, this is hardly necessary. 



Bulletin 62 Pennsylvania State Department 

 of Agriculture ; A Summer's Work Abroad 

 in School-gardens, Home-gardens, Play- 

 grounds, Parks and Forests. By Myra Loyd 

 Dock. Pages, 33 ; illustrations, 9. 

 In England, Switzerland and the more thickly 

 settled portions of Germany, the effort to make 

 the most of woods, rivers, parks and gardens, 

 both financially and in the way of aesthetic en- 

 joyment has been carried much farther than in 

 all but a very few places in this country. Miss 

 interesting pamphlet is the result of a 

 summer's observation of the ways, means and 

 results of such efforts in these three countries, 

 .s object can perhaps be gathered best from a 

 paragraph on page 16, in which she says : " The 

 states of New Hampshire and Massachusetts to- 

 gether receive about six millions of dollars a 

 year from summer visitors, because these States 

 have fine roads and clean, well-managed vil- 

 lages where visitors are able to enjoy their 

 beautiful scenery. When village improvement 

 societies have effected the same needed improve- 

 ment in Pennsylvania, thousands of people will 

 able to enjoy the river and mountain scenery 

 that is now almost a sealed book to the outside 

 The subject matter of the pamphlet 

 nay be divided roughly under the heads Towns, 

 cs, Playgrounds and Improvement Societies- 

 Farm and Garden-work for Women; School- 

 houses and Grounds ; The Black Forest and its 

 Administration ; and The Black Forest Cotn- 

 These topics are treated with no great 



minuteness, but it is not necessary that they 

 should be. Details of work in this country 

 would pretty surely differ greatly from those 

 abroad. The object is mainly to suggest the 

 many ways in which it is not only desirable, but 

 possible, for individuals and communities in 

 America, and especially in Pennsylvania, to en- 

 gage in what is usually known as improvement- 

 society work. The pamphlet is interesting and 

 ought to serve the purpose for which it was 

 written to good effect. 



The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park. By 

 John Muir, in. the Atlantic Monthly for 

 August. 



No one who is fond of outdoor-life, whether 

 he hopes ever to visit California or not, should 

 fail to read Mr. Muir's articles on the Yosemite 

 Park, of which the second appeared in the 

 August Atlantic. Mr. Muir describes nothing 

 which anyone might not see, but much more 

 than all but a few ever notice. He observes not 

 only with the interest of the naturalist but with 

 a rare perception of the beautiful, and writes 

 in a style that cannot fail to lift, somewhat at 

 least, the blindness of even the most unobserv- 

 ant. There are few whom his articles could 

 not help to a greater enjoyment of wood and 

 field. 



Growing Norway Spruce for Paper Pulp. By 

 L. T. Duncan, of the University of Minnesota 

 in the Minnesota Horticultmalist for August. 

 Mr. Duncan is of the opinion that the Nor- 

 way Spruce which he has found "growing to a 

 timber size in thirty years, around a well-drained 

 open field, with sandy sub-soil," has much to 

 recommend it to a prospective wood-pulp opera- 

 tor in Minnesota. He admits that the growth 

 of Black and White Spruce, and their preferences 

 in regard to soil, would not be encouraging. 

 Though his figures are based on only a limited 

 number of measurements, and, as he says him- 

 self, all the comparisons he makes are of 

 growths under different conditions, he con- 

 cludes that " it is evident that a Norway Spruce 

 is a rapid grower and will, under proper con- 

 ditions of culture and fire protection, furnish 

 pulp-wood in twenty-five or thirty years." 



The Practice of Forestry by Private Owners. 

 By Henry S. Graves. The Progress of For- 

 estry in the United States. By Gifford Pin- 

 chot. 



These two articles which appeared in the Year 

 Book of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture for 1899, ar >d which were reviewed in 

 the FORESTER for June (page 131), have now 

 been reprinted as separate pamphlets. They 

 may be obtained by application to the Division 

 of Publications of the Department. 



Some Business Problems of American Forestry. 

 By C. A. Schenck, Ph.D. Limited Edition. 

 Price, $1.00. French Broad Press, Asheville, 

 N. C. 



( To be reviewed next month. ) 



