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Canadian Forestry Journal. 



About half of the present volume is devoted to the history of 

 the lumber industry of the United States. A feature of the 

 first chapter is a table which, though it covers less than a single 

 page, gives a mass of information of immense statistical value. 

 It shows the wooded area of each state, originally, and in 1905, in 

 comparison with its total land area. According to this, the 

 present wooded area of the U. S. is 1,040,450 square miles, or 

 35 per cent, of the whole. The States vary in wooded area from 

 Alabama, 72 per cent., to Nebraska, 2.9 per cent. The different 

 wooded areas, as well as the changes that have taken place in the 

 course of industrial development are described so as to form an 

 excellent basis for the work that is to follow. The next chapter 

 deals with the U. S. public land policy, which leads up to a con- 

 sideration of forestry and forest reserves — a most interesting 

 subject- — and to tariff legislation, lumber production and foreign 

 trade, each of these great subjects being handled in a separate and 

 voluminous chapter. 



Author and publisher alike are to be congratulated upon the 

 design of this work and upon the splendid way in which that 

 design has been carried out thus far. The work is one which 

 must have a large sale not only among those engaged in the trade, 

 but among the students of economics everywhere. 



A recently enacted bill in Iowa does away with a long-stand- 

 ing grievance, and ought to do much to encourage the planting 

 of forest and fruit trees in that State. It provides that on any 

 tract of land in the State of Iowa the owner may select a per- 

 manent forest reservation not less than two acres in continuous 

 area, or a fruit tree reservation not less than one, nor more than 

 five, acres in area, or both, and that upon compliance with the 

 provisions of this act such owner or owners shall be entitled to an 

 assessment on a taxable valuation at the rate of one dollar per 

 acre for the land. 



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