INSTRUCTING CHINESE STUDENTS OF FORESTRY 



The teachers in these schools are young men who have been trained in forestry schools of tlie L'nited States, and the reforestation of eastern 

 China and the lumbering of western China will follow methods approved in this country. The forestry movement in China, while only a few 

 years old, is making excellent progress despite the great difficulties to Uc overcome. 



Lecturing in Chekiang 



By D. Y. Lin, M.F. 



[Part of the enormous task of providing for the reforestation of denuded China is to first educate the people on the 

 necessity for conservation and for reforesting the non-agricultural lands. Owing to the fact that there are few newspapers 

 or other publications, it is necessary to do this by lecttires and addresses. It is this character of the work and its effects which 

 Mr. Lin describes in the accompanying article. — Editor.] 



IT was on the 2J:th of May that we received word from 

 H. E. Governor Kyiiih that he would like to have me 

 accompany him on his tour of inspection in the north- 

 ern interior of Chekiang. The tour lasted two weeks, and 

 we took in the principal cities, Kienteh, Litngyit, Tsaryen, 

 I.anclii, Chtichow, and Kinwha, all along the Tsientang. 

 The Tsientang is the chief river of Chekiang. Rising 

 in the western hills of the province, it follows a generally 

 northeasterly direction and falls into the Bay of Hang- 

 chow. Its basin occupies nearly half the province, and 

 by means of boats and rafts the river serves as a means 

 of communication for many hundred miles. Small steam 

 launches can go up as far as Tung Loo, but after passing 

 that point small boats and rafts have to be used. Often 

 the river gets very shallow, with many rapids, and it was 

 a sight to see the boatmen heaving and yelling as they 

 worked to get their boats past such places. 



Mountain scenery along the Tsientang is superb. The 



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whole region has been called by some writers "a most 

 varied and charming hill cotmtry, which doubtless some 

 day will be as well known to the tourist as the Japanese 

 hills." Beautiful these hills and mountains are, but when 

 going through them one cannot help noting how treeless 

 they have become, and how they are just a picture of 

 wanton deforestation. Small patches of pines could be 

 occasionally seen marking the place of graves. The 

 Governor frequently remarked on these scattered clumps 

 of trees and said sarcastically, "Those are for the benefit 

 of the dead, who are thus better provided for than the 

 living." Some of the mountains are depleted entirely 

 of tree growth, and frequent fires have gone over them 

 so that the efifccts of erosion and gullying are visible from 

 a distance. Li the vicinity of Lungyu hundreds and hun- 

 dreds of acres of hill lands have been left practically bare 

 of all vegetation. This land could be easily forested and 

 made into productive timbered land, and a protection for 



