140 Canadian Forestry Jotirnal. 



As the foresters received 500 bushels of cones they secured over 5rx) 

 pounds of clean seed. This supply cost 47>^ cents per pound, 

 not includin.q- the forester's expenses or the purchase of some 

 material which was charged to the permanent plant, and is avail- 

 able for future work of this kind. As the market price of white 

 pine seed runs from $2.50 to $4.50 per pound, according to the 

 absence of a seed year and its scarcity, it will l)e seen that the 

 work was timely and economical. " 



Proceedings of the American Forest Congress. H. M. Suter Pub- 

 lishing Co., Washington, D.C. — pp. 474. 



The Report of the Proceedings of the American Forest Congress 

 held in Washington, in January, has been issued. It includes the 

 papers which were read at the Congress and impromptu addresses 

 delivered in the course of the discussion, and altogether is the most 

 complete exposition of the forest problem as it aflfects the United 

 States, wdiich has yet been placed before the public. The type is 

 clear and easily readable, and the general appearance of the 

 volume is creditable to the publishing firm. Elsewhere are quoted 

 some extracts from a few of the papers. 



A Primer of Forestry. Part II — Practical Forestry. By Gifjord 

 Pinchot. Bulletin No. 24 of the U.S. Bureau of Forestry. 



The second volume of the Primer of Forestry, by Mr. Gifford 

 Pinchot, Forester to the United States, has been received. In the 

 first volume the subject was "The Forest." In the present 

 volume the purpose of the work has been further developed in a 

 discussion of "Practical Forestry," which the author defines as 

 follows: — 



"The object of practical forestry is precisely to make the 

 forest render its best service to man, in such a way as to increase 

 rather than diminish its usefulness in the future. Forest 

 management and conservative lumbering are other names for 

 practical forestry. Under whatever names it may be known, 

 practical forestry means both the use and the preservation of the 

 forest." 



