CHINESE FORESTRY IN 1919-1920 



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five pounds of tree seeds. For larger amounts a slight 

 charge is made. The Kiangsu model forest plan- 

 tation with its budget of $1,590 from the pro- 

 vincial 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 (Chihii) industrial deputy with his 

 central nursery and four substations, his budget of $1350 

 raised from house and land taxes, and 3,000 mow refor- 

 ested to date, is planning to have every family plant five 

 trees annually for each male member. The second Che- 

 kiang Provincial nursery supplied free of cost over a 

 million trees, to 16 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 $2934 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 seedlings (80 per 

 cent of total) and transplants in the nurseries represented 

 and three and a half million trees planted to forest sites 

 on 15,000 mow of land. From data at hand and from 

 first-hand knowledge, 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 expenditure 

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

 probably between 25 to 30 million trees planted out to 

 permanent sites on about 600,000 mow of land (100,000 

 acres). The largest nursery section is in North Kiangsu 



around Yangchow, where an investigation showed an an- 

 nual production and sale of between thirty and 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 agricultural 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. Grad- 

 uates with forestry training will be in increasing demand, 

 and the more imperative 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 affects forestry personnel and de- 

 velopment 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, 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. 



THli UNWELCOME GUEST 

 {Cont'd from page 641) 

 from the acts of a few. Are we to see a time when the 

 person who goes into the open country for a vacation is 

 automatically branded a rowdy because he enters the 

 general class of tourists when he takes to the road? 



America's outdoor fraternity, the family which early 

 visits the great woods, open prairies and mountain val- 

 leys faces a really serious problem because of the stigma 

 cast upon all travelers by acts of a thoughtless few. Con- 

 certed action is needed by every class of person who lives 

 any part of his life in the open to remove this indict- 

 ment by furthering the simple code of courtesy of the 

 mountains, fields and lakes. When ordinary good man- 

 ners are as much demanded by each of the other in the 

 field as in the club or home, then the traveler will no 

 longer be the unwelcome guest whether he himself is 

 guilty of any infraction or not. It must become as much 

 of a sin against society to break the social custom of the 

 outdoors as it is to over-step general social practice in the 

 centers of culture. When all who make up the fraternity 

 of outdoors insist that every member be considerate of 

 the other and observe general good manners in the open 

 then indeed will many now antagonistic to all tourists 



become hosts and the tourist who is a petty vandal will 

 carry not only the ill-will of the farmer he has harmed 

 but the brand of condemnation of his own brotherhood. 



THE MOUNTAIN LION, OCELOTS, LYNXES AND THEIR KIN 



(Cont'd from page 636) 

 oh ! so savage and bad-tempered that it becomes quite 

 out of the question to handle them. For a little while 

 they follow their mother about, who initiates them into 

 matters of hunting, climbing and other traits so essen- 

 tial to the forming of the true lynx character. I am not 

 informed as to what time the young grow the ear-tufTs 

 and the face-ruff, which constitute such conspicuous 

 features of the head of the full-grown animal. 



In former years, hundreds of lynx skins, of this spe- 

 cies, came into the fur markets, and their pelts were 

 highly esteemed. For instance, Canada lynx furs, im- 

 ported by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1858 and offered 

 for sale in London in January and March, 1859, amount- 

 ed to the following: 1858 28,102; in 1857^26,794; 

 in 1856 18,907, or a total of nearly 74,000 skins, their 

 selling price being two dollars and forty cents each. 



