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INDEX. 



gfanton, Mich.,52t. 



Star Iron Works, retnrna from, 125. 



States, forests not owned by, 8; encouragement of 

 planting by, 197 ; laws for encouraging planting, 

 200. 



Stations, instructions for meteorological observa- 

 tions, 231. 



Staves, trade in, Saginaw, 418; on New York ca- 

 nals, 444, 44G; at Albany, West Troy, and Water- 

 ford, 450 ; at Buffalo, 453 ; prices in Now Orleans, 

 484 ; Michigan census rt tnrns, u2fi. 



Steam, bark peeled by aid of, 148. 



Steam-engines used in lumber manufactxire, 389, 

 392, 422, 607. 



Steams, Robert C, on Eucalyptus, 606. 



Steele, Edwin S., statement by, 49G. 



Stephens, E. F., tree-planting by, 120. 



Steppes of Kussia, rainfall in, 287. 



Sterling, John M., tree-planting by, 220. 



Sternberg, Dr. L., on natural growth of trees in 

 Kansas, 572. 



Stewart, Sir Henry, transplanting done by, 83. 



Stevens, John 11., cited, 537. 



Stevens Co., Minn., 533. 



Stevens Point, Wis., 530, 541, 543, 547, 550. 



Stevens Point Boom Company, 530. 



Stewart, Dr. J. F., report by, 510. 



Stiles, Wis., 543, 550. 



SiiUwater, Minu., 541, 544, 548, 550. 



Stock, injuries from, how prevented, 191. 



Stock of lumber, &c., on hand, Saginaw, 519. 



Stockbridge, Mass., improvements in, 218. 



Stockholm, forest academy at, 632. 



Stockhardt, Professor, experiments of, 41. 



Stokes, Charles, statement of, 460. 



StoUey, William, statements by, 583, 584. 



Stone-fruit trees, coal-tar not suited for, 95; of 

 North Carolina, 475. 



Stone Island, Mich., 513. 



Storms, winter, on prairies, 122; areas, passage of, 

 over forests, 264; fearful effects of, in prairie 

 States, 280 ; in Minnesota, 53S. 



Story Co., Iowa, white willow in, 563, 564. 



Stra'bo, statement by, 328. 



Strachey, It., report by, 307. 



Strasburg, reboisement near, 337. 



Stratton, Gen. J. T., Eucalyptus planted by, 606. 



Streams, effect of woodlands upon, 289. 



Strzecki, P. E., cited, 334. 



Stuttgart, forest academy near, 619, 620. 



Studies at school of forestry at Neustadt-Ebers- 

 walde, 615. 



Stnmpage, instructions concerning, 13. 



Stumpf on seed-planting, 32. 



Sturgeon Bay, Wis., 543, 547, 556. 



Sturgeon Kiver, 524. 



Styria, Forest school in, 624. 



Suamico, Wis., 550. 



Subsidence of Southern New Jersey, 459. 



Subsidies, Swiss, for reboisement, 376. 



Subsoils suitable for planting, 69. 



Suffolk Co., N. Y., 457 ; Massachusetts, 432. 



Sugar cane on Mauritius, 305, 306 ; maple, 391 ; ex- 

 periments on sap of, 425; and sirup, Michigan, 

 525 ; in Minnesota, 539. 



Sngar pine in California, 598; received at San Fran- 

 cisco, 608. 



Suggestions on management of timber by United 

 States, 193. 



Sullivan Co., Pa., pine of, 464. 



Sully Co., Dak., 587. 



Sumac as a tanning material, 153 ; production of, 

 392; in Massachusetts, 415; in North Carolina, 

 469. 



Snnbury boom, 465. 



Surface, inclinations of, 265. 



Surell, M.,cited, 312, 337. 



Surveys, absence of, a groat injury, 14, 15. 



Susquehanna Boom Company, 466. 



Susquehanna, lumber region of, 463; rafting on 

 the. 442, 464. 



Sustaining walls, 357. 



Svedelins?, G., on charcoal, 129. 



Swamp land, care of timber on, referred to States, 

 13. 



Swamp pine of North Carolina, 478. 



Sweden, charcoal processes in, 129; comparative 

 observations in, 264. 



Saweet-gum, heating qualities ofi 136. 



Swiss Forestry Association, 375 ; course of prac- 

 tical instruction, 378. 



Switzerland, comparative meteorological records 

 in, 254 ; former forest regulation.s, 371 ; recent 

 law for reboisement, 371, 375 ; forest instruction 

 in, 626. 



Sycamore in exposed situations, 68 ; soil suited 

 for, 73; heating qualities of, 136, in Tennessee, 

 485 ; in West Virginia, 491 ; weight of, 442. 



Sylva Americana noticed, 215. 



Syracuse, Kans., planting at, 119. 



Table Mountain pine, 471. 



Tahiti, lumber from San Francisco to, 609. 



Taillade defined, 160. 



Tamarack in New Hampshire, 399; In Massacho* 

 setts, 407. 



Tamarisk as a screen, 276 ; in sands, 78. 



Tanneries, 385; Michigan census, 526. 



Tanning, larch used for, 60 ; in coppices, 10.3, 144^ 

 grown in coppices, 103, 146; extract, 145. 



Tar distilled from wood, 133; as prevention against 

 insects, 168; production, 1840, 385; exported from 

 Wilmington, N. C, 478. 



Tarbes, convention at, 340. 



Tasmania, observations in, 338. 



Tatem, Lawiie, premium-planting by, 554. 



Taxation, exemption of, in plantations, 198, 207. 



Taylor, E. A., statement by, 577. 



Taylor, William B., a park" commissioner, 437. 



Telegraph, absurd opinions concerning, 294. 



Temperature a controlling influence, S8 ; effect oft 

 upon relative humidity, 230; of air in fields and 

 woods, 235; of soils, 238; comparison of Bava» 

 ri.an stations, 239 ; comparative, Swiss stations, 

 255 ; general statement concerning, 267. 



Temporary regulations, Prussian law, 370 ; Swi88 

 law, 377 ; Italian law, 383. 



Tenants, timlier culture not to be expected frorp^ 



Tennessee, resources of, 483 ; importance of tree. 



planting in, 486 , barrens of, 4b9. 

 Tenure of lands, 8. 

 Tessin, canton of, 371, 373, 374, 375. 

 Tests for wood in paper, 123. 

 Texas, timber of, 482 ; value of wind screens in, 



275. 

 Tharaud, forest academy at, 618. 

 Theophrastus, quotation from, 42. 

 Thinning of plantations, 99; of coppices, 103. 

 Thompson, H. M., on evergreen seedlings, 54 ; 8Ug« 



gestions by, 279. 

 Thomas, I. T., on shelter of woodlands, 281. 

 Thomas, J. J., statement of, 453. 

 Thompson, R. A., history of Sonoma Co., Cal., cited, 



602. 

 Thompson, Professor, on effects of shelter, 274. 

 Thorn-trees in exposed situations, 68. 

 Thousand Islands, effect of clearing at, 293. 

 Thracian Bosphorus, ancient winters of, 269. 

 Thuja occidentalis as a screen, 276. 

 Thuiopsis borealis, in exposed situations, 68. 

 Thtmder Bav River, 522, 523. 

 Thurgovia, forests of, 372. 

 Thwaites, Mr., opinions of, 307. 

 Tide- water region of Virginia, 467, 469. 

 Tiemann, pertume from pine prepared by, 143. 

 Tierps, Sweden, forest school at, 622. 

 Ties used by railroads, 115; received at San Fran^ 



Cisco, 608. 

 Tiflis, hygrometrical observations at, 226, 227. 

 Timber belts, 276, .533, .556. 

 Timber cribs passing New York Canal, 445. 

 Timber-culture acts, 17. 

 Timber-growing in Nebraska, 49. 

 Timber on public lands, 11 ; agencies for care (ft, 



12; lands, property in, 26; in Colorado, 202; i& 



Georgia, 480. 

 Timber-line, 267, 589, 590. 

 Timber-marks, 214. 

 Timber reservations, 9 ; resources of United State?, 



384 ; seizure, 13 ; species in North Carolina, 471 ; 



on New York canals, 444 ; thieves, 9 ; trade at 



Albany, West Troy, and Waterforl, 449 ; of Buf- 

 falo, 452 ; of Saginaw, 518 ; at Tonawanda, 451,$ 



weight of, 442, 443. 

 Time for cutting timber, 405 ; for transplanting, 



86, 67. 



