Abstract

American Forestry

The article provides information on the book "American Forestry," Franklin B. Hough. American forestry, if it can be said to exist at all in the scientific acceptation of the term forestry, is still in embryo, and the voluminous report on this subject prepared by Bough, under direction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and published by Congress, will not serve in any great degree to dispel existing ignorance of what forestry means, or what it can be expected to accomplish. Hough has not thought it necessary to divide into chapters or even to classify the mass of material he has collected together, and his index has been so carelessly prepared that it affords but little assistance to the student searching through much chaff for a few stray kernels of knowledge.