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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



New York 



In 1908 the New York Central Railroad 

 caused fires which burned over some State 

 land in Adirondacks and destroyed a quantity 

 of i forest area. Two actions were brought to 

 recover damages. In each case an award for 

 the full value of all of the material, injury to 

 soil, etc., was awarded the State. 



The railroad company demurred on the 

 ground that timber upon State land was with- 

 out value because the Constitution prohibited 

 its removal. They also further argued that 

 the measure of damage was ascertained by the 

 value of the property before the fire, less what- 

 ever salvage might be derived, the State claim- 

 ing that the Constitution prohibited removal 

 of timber, there could be no salvage and, 

 therefore, the loss was entire. The Appellate 

 Division Court of New York State has just 

 handed down a decision confirming the judg- 

 ment of the Supreme Court in the previous 

 case. The Railroad Company will doubtless 

 make an appeal to the Court of Appeals. 



In 1908, at the time these injuries were 

 caused, the State did not prescribe any penalty, 

 nor more than actual damage. Since that time 

 a law has been enacted which prescribes a 

 penalty 01 ten dollars for trees killed upon State 

 land, and a penalty of one dollar for trees 

 killed upon private land, together with 

 damages. 



New Jersey 



Good advice relative to Arbor Day obser- 

 vances is given in a circular issued by the 

 Forest Commission and the Department of 

 Public Instruction of New Jersey. Arbor Day 

 is to be April 10. The circular says: "Tree 

 planting, though important, has been some- 

 what overdone in connection with Arbor Day 

 observances. If there is room for more trees 

 on the grounds of any school, or in nearby 

 parks, let the occasion be used for planting 

 with appropriate ceremonies, but it often will 

 be better to organize a squad of pupils to culti- 

 vate and fertilize the ground about trees 

 already established, to provide and maintain 

 suitable guards, to conduct a campaign against 

 insects, or in some other way to awaken a 

 continuing interest on behalf of trees. It is well 

 to keep in touch with the town or city shade tree 

 commission. 



"In this State there is no dearth of forests; 

 in some places we have too much woodland. 

 The exercises in country schools, therefore, 

 may serve to give emphasis to local needs and 

 interests, especially to the control of forest 

 fires by which so much property is lost. There 

 is a forest fire warden in every part of the State 

 where there is danger of forest fires. He may 

 be asked to take part in the exercises and point 

 out how the pupils can help in this work. 

 They can do much." 



CURRENT LITERATURE 



MONTHLY LIST FOR MARCH, 1914 



(Books and Periodicals Indexed in the Library 



of the United States 



Forest Service.) 



Forestry as a Whole. 



Dictionaries. 



Reinhardt, Wm. A. A., comp. Vocabulary of 

 forest terms; silviculture, forest protec- 

 tion, forest utilization, found in Schwap- 

 pach's Forstwissenschaft. 24 p. Mont 

 Alto, Pa., State forest academy, 1909. 



Proceedings and Reports of Associations, Forest 



officers, etc. 

 British Columbia Dept. of lands. Report of 



the minister of lands for the year ending 



31st December, 1913. 508 p. pi., maps. 



Victoria, 1914. 

 Oregon State board of forestry. Third 



annual report of the state forester, 1913. 



46 p. Salem, Ore., 1914. 



Royal English arboricultural society. Transac- 

 tions, v. 8, pt. 2. 73 p. Haydon Bridge, 



Northumberland, 1913. 

 Vermont State forester. Fifth annual report, 



1913. 43 p. pi., maps. Burlington, Vt., 



1913. 



Forest Education. 



Victoria Education dept. Forestry. 16 p. il. 

 Melbourne, 1913. (Circular^of informa- 

 tion no. 17.) 



Forest Schools. 



Bailey, Liberty Hyde Statement on the 

 forestry situation to the governors of the 

 Cornell club of Rochester. 12 p. Ithaca, 

 N. Y., Cornell univ., 1913. 



Forest Legislation. 



British Columbia Legislative assembly. An 

 act to amend the "forest act." 8 p. Vic- 

 toria, B. C., 1914. 



British Columbia Legislative assembly. An 



act respecting the royalty on timber. 7 p. 



Victoria, B. C., 1914. 

 Ross, Wm. R. Speech on the timber royalty 



bill in the British Columbia legislature. 



Feb. 13, 1914. 4 p. Victoria, B. C. 



Dept. of lands, 1914. 



Forest Botany. 



Gregson, Margaret M. The story of our trees, 

 in twenty-four lessons. 160 p. il. Cam- 

 bridge, University press, 1912. 



Silvics. 



Arzhanov, S. P. Iz zhizni rastenii (Plant life), 

 pt. 1-2. il. S.-Peterburgh, 1912-13. 



Studies of Species. 



Ashe, W. W. Yellow poplar in Tennessee. 

 56 p. il. Nashville, Tenn., 1913. (Ten- 

 nessee Geological survey. Bulletin 10-C) 



