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i that is interesting to the American 

 rester and forest student, and contains 

 me very valuable increment tables of 

 .panese trees, descriptions of the various 

 pes or forest, and of some of the more 

 iportant tree-species, together with an in- 

 resting exposition of the workings of the 

 ivernment forest service. 



;port of the Pennsylvania Department 

 ot Forestry for the Years 1903 and 



1904. Pp. 106, illustrated. State Printer, 

 Harrisburg, 1904. 



Mr. Robert S. Conklin, Commissioner of 

 >restry, state that his department is con- 

 cting a "work which is constantly on the 

 :rease, and coming to be most important, 

 : ecting as it does the well-being of our 

 izens and the whole industrial life of the 

 mmonwealth. The report here presented 

 :ludes a report of Dr. J. T. Rothrock, 

 mimissioner of Forestry during 1903, and 

 til May 31, 1904, and of his successor, Mr. 

 >nklin, from June I, to December, 1904. 

 lere are also included the report of the 

 ate Forester, Mr. George H. Wirt ; a re- 

 rt of the Camp Sanatorium for poor con- 

 mptives, at Mont Alto, by Dr. Addison 

 . Rothrock ; a report on the State Forest 

 rademy at Mont Alto ; a paper detailing 

 "Rational Method for the Cultivation of 

 s Willow," by Mr. Paul E. Arnold; a 

 listory of Forest Fire Legislation in 

 :nnsylvania, as a Province and State," by 

 win C. Williams, Esq., Deputy Commis- 

 >ner of Forestry ; and a statement of the 

 lount of timber cut and the losses by for- 

 : fires during two years, tabulated from 

 ta collected by the department. 



inual Report of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitute for 1904. Pp. 804, illustrated. 

 Government Printing Office, Washington, 



1905. 



Included in this report are two articles 

 lich should be of unusual interest to read- 

 ; of this magazine, "The Work of the 

 iclamation Service," by F. H. Newell, 

 lief of the U. S. Reclamation Service, and 

 he Yuma Reclamation Project," by Mr. 



B. Lippincott, Supervising Engineer, U. 



Reclamation Service. The volume con- 

 ns, as usual, a mass of scientific data and 

 'ormation that is as interesting as it is 

 luable. 



iport of the Secretary of the Interior 

 :or the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 



1905. Pp. 286. Government Printing 

 3ffice, Washington, 1905. 



Flic administration of the public lands of 

 : United States, the construction of gov- 

 iment irrigation works under the Re- 

 mation Act, the administration of the 



national parks and reservations, the map- 

 ping and surveying of the United States, are 

 a few of the branches of activity which are 

 centered in the Department of the Interior, 

 and in which readers of FORESTRY AND IRRI- 

 GATION should be interested. In the volume 

 presented here is included also a report on 

 the workings of the General Land Office in 

 the administration of forest reserves prior 

 to July i, 1905, when that work was trans- 

 ferred to the U. S. Forest Service. 



In the fields of both irrigation and fores- 

 try the report shows a gratifying amount of 

 work done in furtherance of these two all- 

 important subjects. 



Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 1905. Pp. 132. Government Printing Of- 

 fice, Washington, 1905. 

 Of particular interest in this report is the 

 summary of work accomplished during the 

 fiscal year of 1905 by the divisions of 

 the Agricultural Department having in 

 charge the forest work and the irrigation 

 investigations of the government. Refer- 

 ring to the first, the Report states : "The 

 work of the Forest Service has been greatly 

 developed. Of the eleven persons employed 

 July i, 1898, only two were professional 

 foresters. To-day the Forest Service em- 

 ploys 153 professional foresters out of a 

 total force of over 800 persons. An im- 

 portant achievement of this Service during 

 the past few years has been to enlist the 

 sympathy and co-operation of lumbermen 

 and forest owners, and the Secretary urges 

 that the work of education continue until 

 public opinion will not tolerate heedness 

 waste or injudicious loss. The forest re- 

 serve property of the government is admin- 

 istered at a cost of less than one-third of 

 i per cent of its value, which increases at 

 the rate of 10 per cent per annum." 



Of the Division of Irrigation and Drain- 

 age, the Secretary reports : 



"The irrigation and drainage investiga- 

 tions of the Department have resulted in 

 the systematic study of the agricultural and 

 legal features of irrigation. Measurements 

 of the quantity of water used in ordinary 

 practice have been followed by more care- 

 ful experiments to determine the frequency 

 of irrigation and the amount of water to 

 be applied to get the best results. The 

 studies of irrigation laws have included the 

 collection of facts showing the character 

 and amount of water rights. Experiments 

 are being made to determine how far drain- 

 age can be made to protect hillsides from 

 destructive effects of erosion." The report 

 is replete with valuable information and sta- 

 tistical data regard ing the government work 

 carried on by the Department of Agricul- 

 ture. 



