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ing the public what the actual forest conditions of the country 

 are, how much land lies idle, how much is the loss to the country, 

 and what is the prospective gain if such land is made productive 

 by being reforested. These concrete descriptions of actual facts 

 will add force and vividness to the appeal to public sentiment 

 and will foster real interest in this movement. 



c. Legislation. Since forest laws will be a new feature in 

 Chinese legislation, they should have the following characteris- 

 tics : (1) the ameliorative and the protective measures should be 

 given more emphasis than the restrictive measures. (2) They 

 should be simple and never too wordy. (3) They should be 

 capable of being enforced, i. e., practical. 



When these laws are enacted, their usefulness should be care- 

 fully explained and the broadcast publicity of them should be 

 insured. 



Restrictive measures should be applied to the exploitation by 

 lumbermen, but the purpose of the law should be made known 

 to them, so that a good understanding and cooperation may be 

 established. At the same time measures of fire protection and the 

 measures against trespass should also be rendered available to 

 the lumbermen. 



A good system of forest taxation goes far in promoting forest 

 interest in the United States. This will be the case in China. 

 But, as most of the waste lands are at present abandoned without 

 ownership and, therefore, go without taxation, the land reclaimed 

 by planting should be free from taxation for a considerable 

 length of time and any taxation after that period should be 

 nominal in order to insure permanent establishment of the forest. 



