Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-10-23
DEFoRESTATION
CAUSES FLOODS
ON China river
COLLEGE HEAD SAYS THIS
SHOULD BE LESSON TO
AMERICANS.


WASHINGTON. Oct. s2.-china's
great flood disaster In Maxwell province
->her third Of the eurrcn, year. should
b. a icsscn 10 the United States show.
Ing what may follow indiscrimlna,c de
forostatlcn. says Dean Rcisner Il tho
College ~ agriculture and forestry at
the University o. Nankin In a detailed
report TO the American Forestry Assoc.
clatIon
"cnina with her floods i an example
% the world OF the need Of rciorcsia
upn.'" says he. "a conservative cxpen.
diture for various forestry enterprises.
mainly nursery work and forest plant.
ins. IN Tom s2oo.0co 70 a quartz million
dollas. the production Of 100 million
ties In over one thousand nurseries.
and the planting Of twenty-five to thlr
Is million trees on 100000 acres OF
land. This may seem small when com.
~. ID with some other countries. but
large when one considers the hack.
ground and the fact that Chlnas In
isrcst In forestry is only very Few
WARS old
"The Magnitude of the devastation In
the Anhwd province" says Charles la.
shrop Pack. president u the Assccla
,uon In giving out the report of Dean
cIlisncr. may be seen when We con
oder that the flooded AREA IA twiS IL
arca of Massachusetts, % about i5.p0O
saoare miles. The population Of the
wkich n a million and half less than
tie sufferers IN the flooded areas. IN,
crowded ccnditions vii at once be- seen
Hail connections between Shanghai ano
ucntrin and pekln were soon cut by
thr Anhwcl floods caused when the
Hungtze Lake and it, tributaries over.
f>uwed about sixty miles 10 the north
q Nankin. The desorcsted condition Of
China are the causes not only u thu
fnpcds but cf most u her famines IN
that country
Qua Yang Lin. a graduate u IN,
Tale Forestry school IL one q the lead
en- In the forestry work In China. II,
81 Into Ticntsin after one OF the floods.
t"vHhilc In Tientsin." Mr.. Lin report.
q, Il had the opportunity ~ gums
through the flooded scctions. II was
terrible sight. The boa,men pointed Out
the high water rnarks. told vas Of tn.
Millions rendered homeless and the
Thousands that had pcrish.d. Coffins
could b. seen floating In the streets
The country was under crop when the
tiood came and the loss can not be i'm
agine<l."
The newest provincial development
rays Dean Reisner's report. has beei
IN Ghantung Province" which has
coma into world proninence through
the 'shantung award q the Parl
Peace Conference. This work was or
Ganiscd by Mr.. Lin.
a Provincial FL. est Service has been
established with chief forester and
eleven assistants. Work was prosecuted
20 vigorously that the first planting
scason saw the organization of thre,
forestry statsons. the establishment y
thsce nurseries with plans for two
more for the following season. over $50
80 trees planted on 1000 NOV q land
and an additional 3.ccc NOW seeded
Three government railways are en-
wngpd In rcforesta;ion work looking
forward to supplying their own ties and
oeh(r timbezr uscd In railruad mainten
ance. Several other railways are con
ttmplsting similar developments. The
budgets are voted by the various rail.
way administrations interested. The for.
cstry work Of the Lung.Hal railway.
which II financed by Belgian interests
h under the direction u .. Hers. The
Teforesting has been mostly along both
ades II the railway where 100000
srres have been set out.
THE Tsen,sln,rnkow Railway forcs
try work u In charge o. graduate u
Harvard Forestry school. About $40. oos
trees have been planted. The Peklns
Hankcw Railways fotestry work IL IN.
der the d ection a Ngan Han. u grad
uate Of the Forestry DEPARTMENT o.
Michigan State University.
'.The outstanding forestry develop
n,ent continues 10 be that q the klang
"a Provincial forestry station. started
IN 1916. io~ated near the famous Minis
Tonbs In Nankln. at the head 81 which
- Mr.. Song .sing.Mco. n graduate 81
the Philippine School " Forestry.
ir.y-fcur thousand NOV VI land
"a inow being about one-six,h VI an
acrcD have been rrpianted to date with
two and half million trees planted on
1i,oos NOV last spring. Three nnrser