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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



dustry, with a budget of $6,ooo. This was increased to 

 $20,000 during the first year, under the present director, 

 Mr. Soong Ding-moo, a graduate of the Philippine School 

 of Forestry, and to $27,000 the second year. The station 

 has under its control and supervisioa two sub-stations, 

 where large planting operations are being carried on. 

 The central station has about 1,100 mou of land, a good 

 part of which is in nurseries. Last year, the central 

 station raised in its nurseries 1,800,000 seedlings, and 

 had 1,200,000 transplants, or a total of 3,000,000. The 

 Mo Fusan sub-station contains almost 20,000 mou of 

 land, and by the end of this season will be entirely 

 reforested. The second station is at Pao San, where 



of land (over 100,000 mou) just northwest of and 

 across the river from Nanking and west of Puchen. 

 Funds to carry on the work are provided from a small 

 proportion of the budgets of certain provincial schools. 

 Extensive nurseries are maintained, which not only fur- 

 nish their own planting stock, but from which they sold 

 this past spring, as noted above, $2,500 worth of stock. 

 The forest planting which they are carrying on is the 

 largest in Kiangsu province, and ranks high among the 

 very largest in any part of China. This spring already 

 they have planted several millions of trees. The work 

 is under the supervision of Mr. Y. Chen. 



Large nurseries have also been started this year by the 



AN ANCIENT CHINESE TREE 



Said to have been planted by Emperor Yung Lo (1360-1424), this ancient gingko stands in one of the courtyards of T'an Che Ssu, a monastery 



in the vicinity of Peking, built 400 A. D. 



considerable planting has been done on several of the 

 more important dykes. Young trees are not only pro- 

 duced at these stations for the government's own use, 

 but for sale and distribution. Tree seeds for nurseries 

 and young trees for forest or nursery planting have been 

 supplied as follows, this year : la Kiangsu province, to 

 fourteen district magistrates, twenty-three agricultural 

 societies, twenty-four other agricultural or forestry estab- 

 lishments, and twenty-nine individuals. Outside of 

 Kiangsu province, supplies were provided for eighteen 

 agricultural and forestry establishments and sixteen indi- 

 viduals. 



The Educational Forest Enterprise was established in 

 1916, and has secured a very extensive mountainous tract 



Peking-Hankow Railway at Huang Shang Pi (station), 

 Honan, under the direction of Mr. Ngan Han, formerly 

 co-director of the Forest Service organized in 1916 in 

 Peking, but later disbanded. This is more or less of a 

 private enterprise on the part of this Government Rail- 

 way to make provision for its own supply of ties and 

 other timber needed for construction and repair work. 

 It is a wise and commendable undertaking on the part 

 of the railway, and I understand some agreements in 

 this connection have been negotiated between the Minis- 

 tries of Communication and Agriculture and Commerce, 

 looking forward to the extension of such work. 



The Lung-Hai Railway has also started a large nursery 

 at Chengchow, Honan, looking forward to a future 





