RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 



Transactions of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society, vol. xvii, part I . Printed for the 

 Society at Edinburgh, 1903. Pp. 168 and 

 appendices. Illustrated 

 ' ' Ye may be aye sticking in a tree ; it will 

 be growing when ye're sleeping," is the motto 

 of this society, and the report of its transac- 

 tions shows that it does not confine its opera- 

 tions by any means to the mere planting of 

 trees. The papers included cover the whole 

 range of forest activities and are of interest 

 and value, particularly those on the Larch dis- 

 ease. Several papers treat of foreign forests, 

 as in Germany and the Pyrenees, and tell of 

 unique conditions. The entire report is of 

 greater general interest than are most such 

 publications. 



Transactions of the English Arboricultural So- 

 ciety, vol. v, part II. Printed for the 

 Society at Carlisle. Pp. 362. Illustrated. 

 1902-1903. 



The greater part of the record is given up to 

 the excursions of the society at its summer 

 meeting in France. Included in this are sev- 

 eral reports on French forest operations and a 

 comparison of English and French methods. 

 These and other papers, like those of the Scot- 

 tish Society, have a broad general interest, 

 which should appeal as well to the lay reader 

 interested in the general subject of forestry as 

 to the practical forester. In both, the prime 

 factor for consideration is the " estate " in its 

 relations to forestry and lumbering, which 

 marks a contrast to the ' ' woodlot ' ' areas of 

 the United States, on the one hand, and the 

 vast regions being worked by lumber compa- 

 nies, on the other. There are some analogous 

 conditions in this country, of course ; yet, even 

 leaving them out of consideration, there are 

 still many points in the forest policy in Eng- 

 land and Scotland which can be made a basis 

 for profitable comparisons. 



Utah Farmers' Institutes, Annual No. 6, for the 

 year ending June 30, 1902. Published by 

 the Agricultural College of Utah, Logan, 

 Utah. Pp. 160. Illustrated. 



Papers read at the Farmers' Institutes dur- 

 ing the year under consideration are incorpo- 

 rated in this volume, as is required by a state 

 law. They deal naturally with agricultural 

 problems which confront the ranchers of the 

 state, and are instructive to any one interested 

 in irrigation and the reclamation of arid lands. 

 A paper on the possibilities of arid farming 

 opens a new field of discussion, and should 

 give an impetus to agriculture in some parts of 

 the state where it will never be possible to em- 

 ploy irrigation. The great depth of Utah soils 

 makes them extremely retentive of moisture, 

 and crops can be grown in some areas now 

 considered arid with no further addition of 

 moisture than that afforded by the annual pre- 

 cipitation. The reclamation of alkali lands 

 being conducted in the region of the Great 



Salt Lake is the subject of one paper in which 

 the alkali problem is set forth in plain terms 

 and the need of drainage and drainage laws 

 urged. 



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