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a large number of such nurseries have lieen estabhshed. Sixteen 

 students are now being given practical training at the central station 

 in Nanking, having been sent from various parts of the province. 

 Thev are given class work in the morning and field work in the after- 

 noon, and after three years of such training they will be sent back to 

 carry out forestry work in their home districts. 



The newest provincial development has been in Shantung Province, 

 which has come into world prominence through the "Shantung Award" 

 of the Paris Peace Conference. This work was organized by Mr. D. 

 Y. Lin, a graduate of the Yale Forestry School, and at present of the 

 Forestry Department of the College of Agriculture and Forestry of 

 the University of Nanking, an American Missionary Institution at 

 Nanking, China, who loaned him for the work at the special recjuest 

 of the Shantung Civil Governor. A Provincial Forest Service has 

 been established, with a Chief Forester and eleven assistants. Work 

 was prosecuted so vigorously that the first planting season saw the 

 organization of three forestry stations, the establishment of three 

 nurseries with plans for two more for the following season, over 

 550,000 trees planted on 2,000 mow of land, and an additional 3,000 

 mow seeded. The budget calls for about $22,000, payable through the 

 Provincial Treasurer. 



Three government railways are engaged in reforestation work look- 

 ing forward to supplying their own ties and other timbers used in 

 railroad construction and maintenance. Several other railways are 

 contemplating similar developments. The budgets are voted by the 

 various railway administrations interested. The forestry work of the 

 Lung-Hai Railway, which is financed by Belgian interests, is under the 

 direction of Mr. J. Hers, with a budget for the year of about $17,000. 

 which maintains a regular stafl" of about fifty men, including laborers, 

 a large central nursery with three smaller ones controlled by it, in all 

 about 120 mow in nurseries with a million and a half seedlings, trans- 

 plants, and cuttings. The reforesting has been mostly along both 

 sides of the railway where 4,000,000 trees have been set out, including 

 over 800,000 the past season. The Tientsin-Pukow Railway forestry 

 work has a budget of about $(5,000 and is in charge of a graduate of 

 Harvard Forestry School. About 850,000 trees have been planted to 

 date, three-fourths of them this last year. There are two nurseries, 

 one with about 640,000 seedlings and transplants. This work was 

 begun in the last summer of 1918 and is just getting under way. The 



