CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1909 



COVER DESIGN By Charles E. Cartwright. 



TYPICAL ORCHARD HOME IN THE INLAND F.M1MRK Pnwtisficce 



IRRIGATION IN THE INLAND EMPIRE .385 



A FOREST CONFERENCE IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS 391 



THE BIG BANYAN OF KEY WEST, FLA. By Mrs. R. A. Ellis 393 



A FIELD FOR INVENTIVE GENIUS By Mrs. Lydia Adams-Williams 394 



WORK ON A NATIONAL FOREST No. 11, by Charles Howard Shinn 397 



PRACTICAL FOREST WORK FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS IN NEBRASKA.. 402 



FORESTRY* IN MASSACHUSETTS By F. W. Rane 405 



NATURAL TAXATION OF TIMBERED MINING LAND By Robt. B. Brinsmadc. . 408 



WATER CIRCULATION AND ITS CONTROL By Bailey Willis 413 



CHEMISTRY AND CONSERVATION 422 



THE PRESIDENT FOR CONSERVATION 426 



ORGANIZATIONS FAVORING APPALACHIAN NATIONAL FORESTS 427 



EDITOR1AL- 



Edward Everett Halo 430 Water-power <!ral>s in Wisconsin 432 



Forestry a Germ of the Conservation Movement.. 4,70 The National Irrigation Congress 434 



Let Us Hear from the Schools 431 President Hill on Conservation 43f> 



Legislative News Bureau for CONSKUVATION. . . . 431 Destruction of Fish 437 



The Point of View 431 Responsibility for Forests 43.s 



BACK NUMBERS WA XT FD 438 



NEWS AND NOTES- 



Government to Study Eucalyptus Planting 430 Forest Work in Virginia 44.", 



Timber Seasoning and Wood Preservation 430 Afforestation by Newark 440 



Forest Conservation in Germany and the United Forestry Work in Vermont 44ii 



States 439 A Ci'.air of Silviculture at Yale 440 



Mr. Weyerhaeuser on Forest Taxation 440 Annual Meeting of Connecticut Forestry Associ- 



Taxing a Forest Grant 440 ation 



Government Encouni; ing Willow Culture 441 Dry Farming 447 



Seasoning Eucalyptus Poles 441 Natural Resources to Produce Revenue.. 447 



Forest Resources of South America 442 Face to Face with a Water-power Trust.. . 447 



Over-cutting of Connecticut's Forests 442 The Water-power Monopoly 447 



Fire Waste Through Carelessness 443 Water-power Sites 44S 



Needless Work Is Waste 443 A Conservation Commission for Iowa . . 44!t 



Two Projects in Eastern Oregon 443 Favors a Conservation Commission for Canada.. 44:i 



Governors Expected at Irrigation Congress 444 Conservation of Daylight.. 440 



Forestry the Schools 444 Forest Fires in Maine ... 440 



Mr. Pine on Forestry in Arkansas 444 Bark Affects Penetration of Wood Preservatives 440 



The Morai Aspect of Forestry 444 Government St mly ing Yellow I'ine 4.10 



Saving the Big Trees 445 Magazines Pushing Conservation CMI 



A New Pest.... 44.~i Vanishing Forest Giants 45O 



Micl'is-an Forest Fires 44." Wood-waste Distillation.. 450 



Pursuing Timber Thieves in Michigan 44.~> 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS.. 450 



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