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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



May, 



railroad should be singled out to be 

 favored beyond all other railroads by 

 being excepted from the necessity of 

 complying with the departmental regu- 

 lations with which all other railroads 

 are forced to comply. 



Theodore Roosevelt. 



Mr. Clark, of Wyoming, submitted 

 an amendment providing that in grant- 

 ing permits for grazing in the Uintah 

 Forest Reserve no preference shall be 

 given to the flocks or herds of one state 

 over those of another, intended to be 

 proposed by him to the sundry civil 

 appropriation bill. 



Mr. Allison proposed the following 

 amendment to the sundry civil bill : 

 ' ' For gaging the streams and determin- 

 ing the water supply of the United 

 States, and for the investigation of un- 

 derground currents and artesian wells 

 and the preparation of reports upon the 

 best methods of utilizing water re- 

 sources, $200,000." The amendment 

 was agreed to. 



Mr. Lacey introduced in the House 

 a bill (H. R. 14 108) to grant grazing 

 privileges to homestead settlers and 

 holders of small farms in the arid and 

 semi-arid land regions, and for other 

 purposes. 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 



The Blazed Trail. A novel, by STEWart 

 Edward WhiTK, author of "The West- 

 erners." Illustrated. McClure, Phillips & 

 Co., New York. Price, $1.50. 



Within the last year or two there have been 

 many additions to the literature on the sub- 

 jects of forests and forestry, but it has remained 



Copyright by McClure, Phillips & Co. 

 ILIvUSTRATlON FROM "THE BI^AZED TRAIL." 



for Mr. vStewart Edward White to grasp the- 

 possibilities of the lumber camp as the setting 

 for a strong novel. There have been books 

 almost without number of a technical or de- 

 scriptive character on the birds, animals, and 

 trees, but in ' ' The Blazed Trail ' ' Mr. White 

 has used the forest itself, the pioneer lumber- 

 man, and the life of the lumber camp to great 

 advantage in producing a story of decided 

 human interest. 



" The Blazed Trail " is a story of the great 

 pine forests of northern Michigan during the 

 early eighties. As a picture of lumbering 

 operations on a large scale it is unusually 

 graphic, and will give the reader a better idea 

 of how a great tract of timber is lumbered than 

 half a dozen books of a technical character. 

 The author shows himself to be in close touch 

 with the wild life of the woods, and the men 

 in his story are truly " men with the bark on."' 



Mr. White writes well, and he has been a 

 keen observer of the little things, as well as the 

 great, in the life he portrays. "The Blazed 

 Trail" is a strong story, illustrating a very 

 picturesque phase of American life, and alto- 

 gether the book deserves high praise. It is a 

 book that all persons interested in forests, 

 whether from the economic or aesthetic stand- 

 point, will find of interest and value 



Field Book of American Wild Flowers. By F. 



Schuyler Mathews. With 350 illustra- 

 tions by the author, including 24 colored 

 plates and 200 full-page line drawings. 

 Pp.525. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York. 

 Price, I1.75 net. 

 Mr. F. Schuyler Mathews, author of "Fa- 

 miliar Flowers of Field and Garden," " Famil- 

 iar Trees and Their Leaves," and "Familiar 

 Features of the Roadside," has just published 

 an exceedingly useful book, entitled " Field 

 Book of American Wild Flowers." This book 

 is of a size that it may conveniently be carried 

 in the pocket, and should prove an invaluable 

 guide in the identification of our wild flowers. 



