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Show FORESTRY IN CHINA. Tho almost world-wide movement to protect nnd establish forests has reached China, and the first Chineso school of forestry will teoon bo opened nt Moukden. Tho Chineso empire is usually pointed out bs the worst exnmplo among modern notions of forest destruction. Tho floods which are periodically poured down from the denuded mountains aro destructive beyond comparison vjith any other county, nnd the want of forests is assigned ns tho chief cause. Wood is scarcer in China than in almost nny other region in tho world, although tho country is well ndnpled to the growing of trees. In tho establishment of n forest 6chnol tho Chineso government gives evidence evi-dence that it realizes tho need of beginning itfi reforestation in n scientific manner. |