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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



September 



discusses in a way interesting and intelli- 

 gible to all, the best methods of reclaiming 

 the land, and of the principles of arid farm- 

 ing. 



First Biennial Report of the State Engineer 

 of North Dakota. By E. F. CHANDLER. 

 Pp. 91, illustrated. Tribune Press, Bis- 

 marck, 1904. 



Some valuable information for irrigation 

 farmers and water users generally is con- 

 tained in this first biennial report of the 

 State Engineer of North Dakota. The arti- 

 cle on stream measurement and run-off of 

 streams in North Dakota is especially inter- 

 esting, and the description of the different 

 apparatus used clear and lucid. 



Forest Utilization. By Dr. C. A. 



Schenck. Pp. 118. Biltmore Forest 



School. 



The matter contained in this pamphlet 

 was prepared primarily for the students of 

 the Biltmore Forest School, and is de- 

 signed as an outline for study of this sub- 

 ject. There is no direct reading matter, 

 except where such is necessary to make 

 more clear some particular topic, and the 

 whole is an outline subdivided again and 

 again, down to the most insignficant process 

 of utilization of wood or manufacture of by- 

 products. That which is especially com- 

 mendatory in the book is the fact that it 

 presents in a lucid and concise manner the 

 degree of relationship which all operations 

 bear to each other, and their dependency 

 upon certain conditions and the effect of 

 certain causes. 



Report of the Examination of a Forest 

 Tract in Western North Carolina. 



Bulletin No. 60, Bureau of Forestry. By 

 Franklin W. Reed. Pp. 29, illustrated. 

 Washington, Government Printing office, 



1905. 



This one of the series of Bulletins issued 

 by the Bureau of Forestry, which, while 

 treating of a particular locality, is interest- 

 ing to the public at large as affording an 

 insight into the working methods of the 

 Bureau, and giving them an opportunity of 

 taking advantage, in whole or in part, of 

 certain of the recommendations. The re- 

 gion described is an area of about 16,000 

 acres, in the counties of Mitchell, Caldwell, 

 and Watuga, of which about 93 per cent, 

 is still in practically virgin forest. 



Report of the Superintendent of Fores- 

 try, Department of the Interior, Do- 

 minion of Canada. Pp. 28, illustrated. 

 Ottawa, Government Printing Office, 1905. 

 A steadily increasing interest and appre- 

 ciation of forestry by the people of Canada 

 and a recognition of its value as a national 

 asset, have done much to aid Mr. E. Stew- 

 art, Superintendent of Forestry, and make 

 possible the splendid progress achieved in 

 this branch of the service. An interesting 



paragraph in the report deals with the co- 

 operation extended by the government to 

 prairie settlers in the planting of forest 

 trees. In 1904 the total number of appli- 

 cants for trees furnished by the govern- 

 ment was 2,218, as against 1,649 in 1903, 

 and the total number of trees distributed 

 1,800,000, as against 917,950 in 1903. The 

 figures given show eloquently the accept- 

 ance by the settlers of the value and im- 

 portance of trees. 



Range Management in the State of 

 Washington, Bulletin No. 15, Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, Department of Agri- 

 culture. By J. S. Cotton. Pp. 26, illus- 

 trated. Washington, Government Print- 

 ing Office, 1905. 



This bulletin is a valuable contribution 

 to our knowledge of improvement of range 

 lands, and the study of the question was 

 the result of a cooperative arrangement en- 

 tered into between the Department of Ag- 

 riculture and the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station of Washington in the spring of 1901. 

 This cooperative arrangement was con- 

 cluded in December, 1903, and again taken 

 up by the Department of Agriculture alone 

 in June, 1904, and carried on since that 

 date. The management of the range in a 

 practical manner, calculated to make it 

 serve all needs best and yet remain perma- 

 nent, is a very serious problem in grazing 

 sections, and this bulletin is therefore par- 

 ticularly appropriate at this time, when ap- 

 preciation of this fact is gaining ground. 



Indian Forester for February, 1905. Mr. 

 E. P. Stebbins, editor. Pp. 60-117, illus- 

 trated. Allahabad, India, The Pioneer 

 Press, 1905. 



In January, 1905, the Indian Forester 

 commenced its thirty-first volume with 

 many improvements and additions. The 

 size of the magazine has been made larger, 

 it is printed on better paper than heretofore, 

 and although it will be hard for the man- 

 agement to improve on the excellent read- 

 ing matter which has always heretofore ap- 

 peared in its pages, they have made its ap- 

 pearance more inviting by numerous illus- 

 ncial in character, prints the governmental 

 trations. The Indian Forester is semi-of- 

 assignments of foresters, reports and mat- 

 ter of interest generally and this govern- 

 mental association makes its readers confi- 

 dent of receiving authentic and authoritative 

 information. The magazine, while devot- 

 ing space to the discussion of professional 

 problems which confront the Forest Ser- 

 vice in India, also endeavors to lay before 

 its readers both sides of questions when 

 forestry comes into apparent antagonism 

 with agriculture and the daily wants, hab- 

 its and customs of the people, with irriga- 

 tion projects, and in fact with the thousand 

 and one difficulties whrch face officials of 

 all classes in the performance of their work 

 in the country. 



