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Extract No. 395, from the Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture (1905): Pro- 
longing the Life of Telephone Poles. 
FORESTRY AND LUMBERING. 
* Bulletin 34: A History of the Lumber Industry in the State of New York. Price, 
20 cents. 
Bulletin 36: The, Woodsman’s Handbook. 
Chiefly tables and rules for the measurement of wood and timber, including a 
comparison of 43 log rules employed in the United States and Canada, with a brief 
statement concerning the origin and use of each. 
Bulletin 61: Terms Used in Forestry and Logging. 
_ A brief dictionary of words and phrases in use by forester and logger, prepared 
in cooperation with The Society of American Foresters, and designed to promote 
uniformity of usage and to serve as the basis fora more careful and exact forest 
terminology. 
* Bulletin 71: Rules and Specifications for the Grading of Lumber. Price, 15 cents. 
Presenting for the first time under one cover the grading rules and specifications 
adopted by the various lumber manuiacturers’ associations throughout the country. 
As far as possible, the given grades are up-to-date at the time of going to press. It is 
urged that a standardization of grades be secured by cooperation among associations. 
* Bulletin 73: Grades and Amount of Lumber Sawed from Yellow Poplar, Yellow 
Birch, Sugar Maple, and Beech. Price, 10 cents. 
Showing, by tallies at the mill, the amount of lumber actually sawed out from 
certain kinds of trees of different sizes. It serves, first, to indicate the actual gain in 
quality of the lumber with the increase of the sizes of the trees; and, second, to set a 
limit below which trees yield too little lumber, or are too poor in quality, to pay for 
cutting. The tables enable the lumberman to tell how much lumber of each grade 
he may expect to saw from trees of each diameter. Thus he may not only avoid cut- 
ting at a loss, but may also foretell the quality increment which combines with the 
quantity increment to make up his future gain. 
Circular 25: Forestry and the Lumber Supply. 
Three addresses on the relation of the problem of lumber supply to applied for- 
estry. The first address was delivered by the President of the United States before 
The Society of Amefican Foresters; the second by Mr. R. L. McCormack, president 
ot the Mississippi Valley Lumbermen’s Association; and the third by the Forester. 
Extracts from Yearbooks of the Department of Agriculture: 
No. 274: The Influence of Forestry upon the Lumber Industry (1902). 
No. 398: Waste in Logging Southern Yellow Pine (1905). 
No. 434: The National Forests and the Lumber Supply (1906). | 
An exposition of the place occupied by the National Forests in the lumber imdus- 
try, showing how the Forests tend both to prevent the present wasteful disposal of 
timber at excessively low prices and, later, to check the too sudden rise in lumber 
prices which would otherwise follow overconsumption. 
FOREST FIRES. 
Circular 26: Forest Fires in the Adirondacks in 1903. 
A report on the great forest fires in the Adirondack region in 1903, with an estimate 
of the damage done and suggestions for controlling fires in the future. 
Circular 79: The Control of Forest Fires at McCloud, California. 
The first thoroughgoing plan of fire protection applied by a lumber company in the 
United States. The protective measures while specifically designed for local condi- 
tions are of wide interest and largely applicable elsewhere. The actual costs, which 
are nominal, are given, as well as the results secured. 
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