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CHEWING GUM IN CHINA 
HE U. S. Government has this enter- 
taining bit of news concerning the 
deplorable gun- chewing habit in a_ recent 
issue of the Consular and Trade Reports: 
“Very little chewing gum is at present 
sold in China, at least that isstnue of the 
north. None of the business houses in 
Tientsin carry it in stock. This is because 
there are comparatively few Americans in 
China, and foreigners of other nationalities 
are not particularly addicted to the chew- 
ing gum habit. 
There are perhaps 3,000 foreigners, ex- 
cluding soldiers, in the various concessions 
at Tientsin. About 120 of these are Ameri- 
cans. The Japanese come first in unmbers 
and the British next; neither of these 
nationalities use chewing gum. Whether 
the Chinese would take kindly to it if it 
were introduced is a question that can be 
solved only by experiment. 
The use of cigarettes in China is increas- 
ing rapidly among the natives, and it is 
possible that if the same methods were 
used to introduce chewing gum it would 
have a similar success. The British-Ameri- 
can Tobacco Company entered this field 
several years ago. With headquarters in 
Shanghai, it has established large houses in 
each of the treaty ports. 
From these traveling men are _ sent 
through the cities and towns of the interior, 
placarding the walls with huge illustrated 
posters printed in Chinese. These salesmen 
distribute sample packages of cigarettes on 
the streets, giving away many thousands as 
an advertisement, and then arrange with 
some native merchant to carry a stock of 
their goods. By these effective and ener- 
getic methods they have built up an enor- 
mous traffic which is steadily growing.” 
FORESTRY IN THE FAR EAST 
HE following interesting data are 
quoted from one of the U. S. Gov- 
ernment reports: 
“Forestry is a subject in which the 
Chinese evince rio interest, as there are no 
forests in this country. The Great Plain, 
on which Tientsin is located, never had 
forests, being entirely of delta formation, 
and the mountainous regions to the north 
and west were denuded of their forests cen- 
turies ago. The surface soil of these moun- 
tains has been washed away and to re- 
forest them would be a matter of great 
difficulty. There is only one nurseryman in 
this consular district, at Tientsin, but he is 
much interested in tree culture. He raises 
various shade and ornamental trees from 
seed, but the soil of the Great Plain is 
alkaline and comparatively few varieties of 
trees will flourish in it. He has had the 
most success with the acacia. 
A British corporation engaged in mining 
and shipping has a concession for coal min- 
ing in the Kaiping district, about 80 miles 
northwest of Tientsin. The surface of the 
region is broken by hills 50 to 200 feet high, 
which are absolutely bare of trees, and the 
company has begun the work of afforesta- 
tion. It already has 1,000,000 young trees 
growing, chiefly acacia, and is preparing to 
establish a nursery for them on an exten- 
sive scale. 
There are no Government forestry of- 
ficial, schools of forestry or horticulture, 
magazines devoted to these subjects or as- 
sociations of forestry, nurserymen, seeds- 
men, etc., in China. At Tsingtau, German 
China, afforestation has been successfully 
carried on by the German Government.” 
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