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Forestry Division, U. S., 238 



— European methods of, 124 



— financial considerations in, 142 



— in the universities, 249 



— legislation and, x8o, 237 



— meaning of, 121 



— periodicals, 243 



— profession or trade ? 247 



— public interest in, 129 



— reforms in Germany, 228 



— scientists and, 228, 230 



— should be profitable, 129 



— various objects of, 125 

 Forests, advancing on prairies, 92 



— and agricultural lands, 95 



— and climate, 166 



— and erosion, 169 



— dependent on natural laws, 32 



— deterioration of, 93 



— disappearance of, 89 



— distribution of, 13 



— history of, 14 



— natural and cultivated, 134 



— natural extension of, 92 



— owned by governments, 130 



— waterflow and, 167 



— wild animals in American, 51 

 Frame houses, advantages of, 73 



Game preserves, 128 

 Geological surveys, 238 

 Gifford, John, 243 

 Glacial period, 14 

 Government, forestry and, 161 



Improvement cuttings, 135 

 Information, collection of, 178 

 Irrigation, 171 



Labor, price of, 155 



Land tenure unsuitable, for fores- 

 try, 191 



Legislation on forestry, 237 



Lincoln, Abraham, influence of the 

 forest on, 46 



Log-jams, 85 



Logs, driving of, 79, 85 



Lumber camps, work in, 82 



— grades of, 80 



— industry, 55, 64 



— industry, fortunes made in, 75 



— industry history of, 76 



— substitutes for, 72 



— supply of, 66, 74 

 Lumbering and forestry, 153 



Lumbering hard-wood, 70 



— in South, 86 



— on Pacific coast, 86 



Management, intensive, 158 

 Market price, 145, 157 

 Measuring of logs, 87 

 Mensuration, 87, 216 

 Mining timber, 74 

 Moisture conditions, 16 



National Parks, 232 

 Naval stores, 35 

 Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park, 241 

 New York, forestry in, 236 

 Normal forest, 138 



Periodicals relating to forestry, 243 

 Pinchot, Gifford, 239 

 Prairies, g 



— forests advancing on, 92 

 Private and public forests, 169 

 Protection forests, 131, 166 

 Public forests, 162 



— lands, 161 



— lands, disposal of, 189 



Kafting, 77 

 Railroad, logging, 80 

 Railroads, 53, 54 

 Reforestation, natural, 133 

 Roads, 148 

 Rotation, 151 

 Roth, Filibert, 250 



Sand barrens, 91 



— barren, agriculture on, 191 

 Sawmills, early, 55 



— first in America, 36 

 Schenck, Dr. C. A., 240 

 Second growth, 67 

 Seed years, 24 

 Selection forests, 138 

 Settlements in forest, 94 

 Sheep, injury by, 1 19 

 Silviculture, 7, 19, 21 



— in U. S., 239 



— systems of, 137 

 Stumpage, 81 

 Summer resorts, 173 

 Surveyor-General, 37 



Tan bark, 63 



Tariff on lumber, 160, 234 



