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lengths, trimmings, defective tops and 

 butts. 



L. G. Johnson, formerly Deputy State 

 Forester of California, has accepted the 

 position as yard manager with the Frazer 

 Lumber Company of Sacramento, Cali- 

 fornia. Johnson is from Michigan Agri- 

 cultural College, where he received his 

 forestry training. G. M. Homans, State 

 Forester, has appointed Alex W. Dodge 

 to take the office made vacant by John- 

 son's resignation. Dodge is a Californian 

 and graduated from the Yale Forest 

 School in 1912. 



It was most gratifying to President 

 George E. Rex and the other officials of 



the American Wood Preservers Associa- 

 tion to find that over 20 committee mem- 

 bers answered the call to meet at 

 Chicago during the recent convention of 

 the American Railway Engineers' Asso- 

 ciation. There was a time, not long ago, 

 when less than 20 attended the annual 

 meetings. The growth of the wood 

 preserving industry and the rapidly 

 growing realization of the value of 

 treating wood for commercial use is 

 now concentrating interest on the wood 

 preservers' association and the important 

 work it is doing. At the Chicago meet- 

 ing committee reports were heard and 

 arrangements completed for the exhibit 

 at the Forest Products Exposition and 

 for the plan ot the next annual meeting. 



BOOK REVIEWS 



Logging, by Ralph Clement Bryant (John 

 Wiley & Sons, $3.50). Mr. Bryant's series of 

 articles in AMERICAN FORESTRY have attract- 

 ed so much attention that it is idle to state that 

 his book on the principles and general methods 

 of logging in the United States is also heartily 

 praised. It supplies a demand which for years 

 has been apparent. The volume was prepared 

 as a text book for use in the forest schools, but 

 has had a much wider sale and is of interest 

 and undoubted value to every one connected 

 with the logging industry. 



Economic Woods of the United States, by 

 Prof. Samuel J. Record (John Wiley & Sons, 

 $1.25). The need of foresters, timber inspectors 

 and wood users to be able to distinguish the 

 woods with which they deal inspired this book. 

 The number of such woods is so large and the 

 difference between many of them so slight 

 that mere familiarity with their general 

 appearance is not always sufficient for their 

 proper identification. This book supplies infor- 

 mation and illustrations which largely solve 

 the problem of identification. 



A Forest Idyl, by Temple Oliver (Sherman, 



French & Co., Boston, $1.20). A story of the 

 poetry of rural life, the value of getting back 

 to Mother Nature and at the same time a 

 cleverly woven romance, make this book enter- 

 taining, instructive and restful, and a strong 

 plea for the back-to-the-land movement. 



Trees in Winter, by Albert F. Blakeslee and 

 Chester D. Jarvis (Blakeslee and Jarvis, 

 Storrs, Conn., $2.00). Many people desire to 

 know what trees to select for various purposes, 

 where, how and when to plant them, and how 

 to care for and protect them. This book aims 

 to give such general knowledge of trees and 

 tree conditions. It is well illustrated. 



The Commuter's Garden, by W. B. Hay ward 

 (Crowell Co., New York, $1.00). This is a 

 book for those who love gardens and take care 

 of them. In an interesting manner is given 

 information about care of lawns, flowers, 

 plants, vines, shrubbery, hedges, and in fact 

 about everything in relation to a garden which 

 may prove of value. There are also hints 

 about care of hens, cows and bees. It is good 

 reading. 



Fifteen small sawmills are cutting timber from the Powell national forest in southern Utah, more 

 than 100 miles from the nearest railroad. They are run by settlers during time that can be spared 

 from the crops, and supply local needs, since there is no opportunity to ship timber in or out. 



That a serious decline in the carrying capacity of vast areas of western grazing lands, due largely 

 to the fact that stockmen fail to give the range plants a chance to keep growing, can be remedied without 

 closing these areas to cattle and sheep, is the statement made by the Department of Agriculture in a 

 bulletin recently issued on range improvement. Excessive grazing in the spring before the forage 

 crop is mature, and such grazing continued year after year, says the department, are the main causes 

 of range deterioration. 



