Show GERMANS PLANT FORESTS S IN CHINESE EMPIRE In III considering the progress o of the almost worldwide movement for pro protection protection of forests an Interesting re review view has Just been heen made mado or of the tho work In country countr which Is o often cited as an example of the evil of ef effects of deforestation In a of the Celestial King Kingdom toni dom earnest efforts are arc noW being made to n a forest cover coer b by Consul WLlbur T P Gra Gm coy of China reports that the Germans In that region are arc mal mak malInS lOg InS successful attempts at al reforestation tion The success of the work was practically assured at the start starl for forto or orto to German Germany Is gl n the credit for hay haylIng haying lIng ing the highest t system ot of and it Il was natural to expect that the long experience In forest In tho ho Fatherland would lea leasen he hesen sen preliminary experimentation and aud hasten progress In China When Was occupied by bythe bythe the Germans about eleven years ears ago the thc hills wore were found bare and bar barren barran ran ren with only a sporadic growth o of scrub pine and weeds Plans for re reforestation forestation were at once made and about 2965 acres have already been I I I I I I I I I I planted About Aboul half of this Is plant planted ed Cd In acacias the tho In pine larch walnut oak ash maples and aldeis So successful hag this plant planting log ing been that the poInt has already been reached whore the sale of tim bar bor cm can be b made Small branches are aro sold for fOl lire firo wood rood and some or of the tho timber Is used for mining purposes The sale salo and exportation of acacia Is expected to become a source of revenue during the next few years ears It II Is particularly remarkable that this thiR work should have been so sue suc In view of tIme the difficulties to which the tho plantation was subjected rho rainfall If i light and lack of mols mois considerably tuie rel retarded rde the doel of the trees By far tIme the worst enemies however were sere Insects Var ions species of oC cat and oth other othor or er inset hac been so that thousands of Chinese bo boys s and andI women are arc now engaged annually to toI I destro destroy them measures of j have been tried such as asI placing gIrdles of glue on the tho trees I but bitt the theSe e have hoo not been effective an anIt and It was found necessary to resort to toa toa a systematic or of the lie In insects sects b by hand handS handI S During 1908 over Oer seven Boron million eat cat were gathered by hand smashed covered with lime and at af used ns as fertilizer I method has been successful In pro I the greater part or of the plan plantations Jut but on the mountains on the I border of oC the th territory the trees are eaten bare bale appear to with withstand I stand the attacks or of the insects bet betI betten ten tel than thun an any other species and the I summits of the tho mountains are arc now nosy being planted with these trees In nn an effort to check future destruction In InS S addition to these enemies Chinese I thieves are another source of dim dimI I cult culty and On one occasion a band bandor bandI I or of thieves was captured In Inthe Inthe the not or of stealing wood woodIn woodI In spite or of these thee drawbacks how however I ever eer time the work has been beon so 80 success successful ful that tho tha Chinese government la is laI isI I now undertaking forestt forestry In ina j a number of places tinder from froni fromI I German experts This work centers about Mukden Manchuria silo cess has ha already been beon obtained with acacias and are aro now bo be boIng lug Ing with trees treos The Tho first Chinese forest school was establish established ed at Mukden two years ago Six hundred and acres have already been set apart for cultivation and acres aCles arc to be purchased for Three large mines In China In the provinces of and Shansi which are under the management of Euro Europeans Europeans are arc making plans for or station and the Shantung railway Is plan planting tinS acacias along GO miles or of Its track This Is simply a beginning of the tho work antI the Chi Chinese Chinese nese government now has In the Inauguration of extensive work In different parts of China |