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15,000 mow of land. From data at hand and from first-hand knowl- 

 edge, conservative estimates of forestry expenditures and work last 

 year would place the total amount of forest nursery stock raised at 

 100,000,000 trees, in considerably over 1,000 nurseries, with an ex- 

 penditure of from $200,000 to $250,000. In addition there were prob- 

 ably between twenty-five to thirty million trees planted out to per- 

 manent sites on about 600,000 mow of land (100,000 acres). The larg- 

 est nursery section is in North Kiangsu around Kangchow, where an 

 investigation showed an annual production and sale of between thirty 

 ajid forty millions of trees, about one-half of which are pines. 



An interesting and encouraging development is in the introduction 

 of courses or departments of forestry into many of the secondary agri- 

 cultural schools of which every province has from one to five. Anhwei 

 Province is now teaching forestry in four of her five agricultural 

 schools, Chekiang Province has a secondary forestry school with a 

 budget of about $35,000, and a large enrollment. Graduates with 

 forestry training will be in increasing demand, and the more impera- 

 tive need would seem to be for more highly trained men than secondary 

 schools can turn out. The present forestry education is an important 

 factor in the situation both as it afifects forestry personnel and develop- 

 ment of an intelligent public opinion on forestry matters. 



There is a phase of forestry development in China that America 

 should be proud of, which is, that in practically all the large forestry 

 enterprises men trained under American, or American trained, foresters 

 are in the lead. Graduates of Yale, Harvard, Michigan, Syracuse, and 

 Cornell, of the Philippine School of Forestry, and of the University 

 of Nanking, Nanking, China, whose forestry teachers are Americans 

 or American trained Chinese, are all holding positions of responsibility, 

 and some are holding the highest in the country. A Forest Service in 

 China with as high ideals as the Forest Service in the United States 

 will be irresistible and to it will be entrusted one of China's greatest 

 problems and needs. 



