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Peking Hankow Railway's forestry work is under the direction of 

 Mr. Ngan Han, a graduate of the Forestry Department of Alichigan 

 State University. A large tract of mountainous land in Southern 

 Honan is being reforested, and while no detailed report can be given, 

 the work is progressing nicely. 



It would require a large volume to give the details of the various 

 district forestry enterprises, which is not the purpose of this article. 

 It should be noted, however, that out of the 1,800 or more districts 

 (counties ) in China, probably twenty to twenty-five per cent have their 

 own nurseries, or nurseries administered for them and for the upkeep 

 of which they are taxed. A few instances will indicate this local 

 interest and progress. The Southern Chihli nursery has a budget of 

 $1,600 which is raised by allocating $10 to each of the 40 districts 

 served. The Kao-Yi district of the same province has its own nursery, 

 with a budget of $1,080 which is raised from a local tax on cotton. 

 The second nursery of the Chekiang Forest School has a budget of 

 $1,500, a million and a half transplants and seedlings in its sixty-mow 

 nursery, and has direction over eleven smaller nurseries. The second 

 nursery of Shensi province, with three local nurseries under its direc- 

 tion, has a budget of $2,400, with a production of five million seedlings. 

 This nursery has adopted the policy of giving free to anyone in their 

 nursery area fifty trees and up to five pounds of tree seeds. For larger 

 amounts a slight charge is made. The Kiangsi model Forest plantation 

 with its budget of $1,590 from the provincial treasurer, in its two 

 nurseries, had about 2.000,000, transplants and seedlings and planted 

 out about one-half million trees to the forest site. The Lin-Cheng 

 district (Chihli) industrial deputy with his central nursery and four 

 sub-stations, his budget of $1,350 raised from house and land taxes, 

 and 3,000 mow reforested to date, is planning to have every family 

 plant five trees annually for each male member. The second Chekiang 

 Provincial nursery supplied free of cost over a million trees, to sixteen 

 districts in addition to schools, farmers, and others, from its 190-mow 

 nursery containing more than four million transplants and seedlings, 

 on its budget of $2,934 raised from local taxes. 



Records secured from twenty-one forestry enterprises, including large 

 and small, from North and Central China, showed an expenditure for 

 the year under review of $106,000, a production of 26,500,000 seed- 

 lings (80 per cent of total) and transplants in the nurseries repre- 

 sented and three and a half million trees planted to forest sites on 



