CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1909 



COVER DESIGN By Charles E. Cartwright. 



HON. CURTIS GUILD, JR., President American Eorestry Association Frontispiece 



THE FIGHT EOR THE APPALACHIAN FORESTS By Edwin A. Start 251 



PROCLAMATION CONCERNING CUTTING OF TIMBER, ETC. By \Yilliam Penn 261 



WATER CIRCULATION AXD ITS CONTROL By Bailey Willis 262 



PRACTICABILITY OF STATE FORESTS IN SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN 



STATES By W. W. Ashe ( 275 



WHAT FOREST CONSERVATION MEANS By R. S. Kellogg, Assistant Forester, 



Forest Service 283 



AIMLESS TREE SLAUGHTER By M. E. Baker. . . 286 



A LITTLE ABOUT ENGLAND'S TREES By Anne Warner 287 



A TREE LOVER By Mrs. R. A. Ellis 289 



FORESTRY MAIDENS Poem By Sarah E. Kuhn 290 



EDITORIAL- 



The I.e.-son Taught by China '201 Private Interests Protecting against Fire 290 



Il<>\v It Is Dune 292 Far-away Forestry 297 



"Developm.!:" Our Resources 21)4 Forest Taxation Again 29!S 



The Community Must Care for Itself 29.~i A Tree as a Landowner 2',i:i 



Biltmore Forest Fire 290 President Tat't for Conservation 29!) 



NEWS AND NOTES 



Engineers Meet :.J01 To Stop Water Waste 307 



A Forest Congress in Chicago .",01 Farms under Water 307 



For Appalachian Bill Next Session 3<>1 The Government Retains Title to Coal Lands... 307 



What Children Can Do for a Cause 301 Timber Consumption in United States 307 



What the American Civic Association Does.... ::i)l Tree Planting to Transform the Prairie 30S 



Work on the Coast :V01 Progress in Conservation 30S 



Maine Commission Reports Log Rules 3(12 Engineers for Conservation 3n:i 



Development in Colorado 302 Conservation in Rhode Island 309 



Alabama's Resources 302 World Conservation 310 



President Van Hise for Conservation M0."> Stopping Waste 310 



Counties Committee Meeting 303 Government Buys Steam Dredge 310 



Missouri's Forests .",03 Progress at Belle Fourche 310 



Massachusetts Women for Conservation 30:: The Klamath Project 311 



The National Irrigation Congress 304 Scrub Pine for Pulp Material 311 



Irrigation Congress Wanted in the South 304 Wood Preservation Means Forest Conservation.. -ilJ 



Cabinet Members Invited 30."> An Important Tree Family 312 



Forest Service to Be Represented 305 Naval Stores Production 312 



Encouragement from Montana's Governor 30." Government Helps Grazing -T13 



1'tah Again in Line rWti South Dakota Preserves Wood 313 



Meeting of Mechanical Engineers ",0(i Mexico's Supply of Longleaf Pine 313 



Deep Waterways Meeting at Toronto. 3'0ii Why Wood Decays 313 



Iowa's Waterways Commission 30(i Damage by Bark Beetles in Northwest 314 



A New Southern Waterway :;n<; 



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