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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



FEMPLED WOODS. BUDDHIST MONASTERIES AND 

 WOODED HILLS ALWAYS GO TOGETHER 



The newest provincial development has been in Shan 

 tung Province, which has come into world prominence 

 through the "Shantung Award" of the Paris Peace Con- 

 ference. 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 Agricul- 

 ture and Forestry of the University of Nanking, an 

 American Missionary Institution at Nanking, China, 

 who loaned him for the work at the special request of 

 the Shantung Civil Governor. A Provincial Forest 

 Service has been established, with a Chief Forester and 

 eleven assistants. Work 

 was prosecuted so vigor- 

 ously that the first plant- 

 ing season saw the organi- 

 zation 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 govern- 

 ment railways are engaged 



in reforestation work looking forward to supplying 

 their own ties and other timbers used in railroad 

 construction and maintenance. Several other railways 

 are contemplating similar developments. The budg- 

 ets are voted by the various railway administrations 

 interested. The forestry work of the Lung-Hai 

 Railway, which is financed by Belgian interests, is un- 

 der the direction of Mr. J. Hers, with a budget for the 

 year of about $17,000, which maintains a regular staff 

 of about 50 men, including laborers, a large central nur- 

 sery with 

 three smaller 

 ones c o n- 

 trolled by it, 

 in all about 

 120 mow in 

 nurseries with 

 a million and 

 a half seed- 

 lings, trans- 

 plants and cut- 

 tings. The re- 

 foresting has 

 been mostly 

 along both 

 sides of the 

 railway where 

 4,000,000 trees 

 have been set 



out, includmg UXI.NG UP FOR THE 1920 ARBOR DAY PARADE ON THE CAMPUS OF WIL- 

 over 800,000 LIAM NAST COLLEGE, IN CHINA 



the past season. The Tientsin-Pukow Railway for- 

 estry work has a budget of about $6,000 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 late summer of 1918 and is just getting 

 under way. The Peking Hankow Railway's for- 

 estry work is under the direction of Mr. Ngan Han, 

 a graduate of the Forestry Department of Michigan 

 State University. A large tract of mountainous land 



in Southern Honan is be- 

 ing reforested, and while 

 no detailed report can be 

 given, the work is pro- 

 gressing nicely. 



It would requiie a largel 

 volume to give the details f 

 of the vaiious district for-| 

 estry enterprises, which is 

 not the purpose of this re- 

 view. It should be noted, 

 however, that out of the 

 1800 or more districts 

 (counties) in China, prob- 

 ably twenty to twenty-five 

 per cent have their own 

 nurseries, or nurseries ad- 

 ministered for them and for the upkeep of which they 

 are taxed. A few instances will indicate this local inter- 

 est and progress. The Souther^ Chihli nursery has a 

 budget of $i6oo which is raised by allocating $40 to each 

 of the 40 districts served. The Kao-jYi district of 

 the same province haa 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 $1500, a million and a half transplants and 

 seedlings in its sixty mow nursery, and has direction 



over eleven 

 smaller nurse- 

 ries. The sec- 

 ond nursery of 

 Shensi p r o v- 

 ince, with three 

 local nurseries 

 under its direc- 

 t i on has a 

 budget of $2,- 

 400, with a pro- 

 duction of five 

 million seed- 

 lings. This 

 nursery has 

 adopted the 

 policy of giv- 

 ing free to any- 

 one in their 

 aursery area 50 

 trees and up to 



