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FOREST WASTE CAUSES FAMINE 



By PRESIDENT JOHN T. PROCTER 

 Baptist College, Shanghai 



CHINA'S life-sapping famine, in "Last August the Yangste over- 

 which millions are suffering, is flowed and flooded about 40,000 acres 

 largely traceable to the wasting of densely populated territory. This 

 of the forests. One of the most hor- flood placed a population of 3,000,000 

 rible tragedies of the world might have in want. In fifty years there has not 

 been prevented by the careful use of been such another flood. Some of the 

 these resources. victims have been drowned out for two 

 "China's hills and mountains are de- consecutive years, some three years, 

 forested. This is particularly true in some four years. They not only have 

 the hilly country drained by the Yangste lost food, they have lost hope, 

 river, whose valley comprises the "Much of the land that was inun- 

 stricken district. The river brings the dated is at sea level. It is drained by 

 soil down with it. That is the reason the most intricate system of canals in 

 why we have the Yellow sea. For three the world. I know of one city of 30,- 

 hundred miles out from land the ocean 000 which is surrounded by canals. 

 is discolored by the silt brought down There are no roads to it, because a road 

 by the Yangste. The hills are washed could not go half a mile without touch- 

 bare of soil. There is some hunting in ing a canal. There are not even foot- 

 these hills, but the animals live among paths. The people make their way to 

 the brush. For want of better fuel the and from the city in boats. This is 

 natives burn this brush. their only means of communication." 



The movement for a woods products exposition in the United \States is daily receiving 

 encouragement and the outlook now is that one will be held within a short time. At such 

 an exposition a great and varied line of manufactured lumber goods could be exhibited and 

 an opportunity given for a very comprehensive exploitation of lumber and its manufactures. 



Assistant District Forester A. C. McCain, who has been attending to matters relative 

 to the division of the Humboldt National Forest, has returned to his station at Lamoille, 



Nevada. 



N. H nines, formerly supervisor of the Blackfeet National Forest, has been endorsed 

 the position of Superintendent of Glacier Park, succeeding the late Major W. R. Logan, 

 wording to a dispatch from Kalis pell, Mont. 



Bavarian Government has given much attention to fruit growing, a decree having 



iarly as 1769 requiring all land owners to plant fruit trees along the public 



lering their estates. The systematic planting of such trees was begun about 



? of the last century. The value of fruit trees in Bavaria is now estimated at 



$170,000,000. 



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