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Forestry and Irrigation 



H. M. SUTER, Editor 



CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1906 



STEAM SHOVEL ON BELLE FOUECHE PROJECT - Frontispiece 

 NEWS AND NOTES : 

 Meeting of Directors - - - 55 Reclamation in New Mexico 



Awakening Interest in South 55 and Texas 58 



Storage Tests of Seeds - - 55 The Reclamation Fund - - - 58 

 Reform in Turpentining - 56 Reclamation Work River Im- 



Com batting Damage by provement 58 



Rabbits 56 Testing Red Fir 59 



Timber Testing 56 Forest Cover on Watersheds - 59 



Planting in Prairie Regions 56 Land Withdrawals Effective - 59 



Progress on Umatilla Project 56 Telephones in Forest Reserves 60 

 City Park Forestry - - - 57 Underground Waters of Great 



United States Reclamation 57 Plains - - - 60 



Klamath Project - - - - 57 Studying Gum 60 



Payette- Boise Project - - 58 Foresters for Reserves - - - 61 

 INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY y b . COMMISSIONS {with 



portrait). Bv Hon. Francis G. Newlands 63 



RISE IN LUMBER PRICES. By R. S. Kellogg - - - - 68 



A HISTORY OF THE LUMBER INDUSTRY IN AMERICA 



(with portrait). By Treadvvell Cleveland, Jr. ... 70 



ENDORSEMENT OF MINNESOTA RESERVE (with cartoon) - 73 

 MINNESOTA NATIONAL FOREST RESERVE (Illustrated). By 



Rev. J. T. Brabner Smith - - - - - - - 78 



FORESTED WATERSHEDS (Illustrated.) Bv Alfred Akerman - 83 

 REORGANIZATION OF THE PHILIPPINE BUREAU OF 



FORESTRY. Bv W. J. Hutchinson - - 89 

 LETTERS URGING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WHITE 



MOUNTAIN RESERVE - - - - - - - 90 



SUGGESTIONS FOR STATE FOREST FIRE LAWS. By E. J. 



Cheynev - 93 



ANNUAL" REPORT, GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES MUTUAL 



RELIEF ASSOCIATION - 95 



AIDING CITIES AND TOWNS TO NAME THEIR TREES - 97 



HUGE CONSUMPTION OF WOODEN FENCE POSTS - 98 



A NEW SAVING IN THE TURPENTINE INDUSTRY - - 99 



NUT GROWING AND FORESTRY. Bv Leslie Harrison - - 100 



THE CALAVERASGROVE OF BIG TREES. By Mrs.LovellWhite 102 



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