Association asked the privilege of planting trees along. this stretch of-reclaimed land, and wise along the new dyke erected during recent famines by relief labour to Keep back the angry waters of the Yellow River when in flood. Tha good ofoes of the Nanking University Forestry and Agriculture Department were to have been utilized through its extension scheme, to get young trees and to. start experimentation Iekding to improvement in agricultural methods for the province, 'The plan proposed to make the work self-perpetuating, by utilize ing' the trees grown to continue the work of reclamation, as the! purchase and delivery of grown trees makes a. big inroad finances, and "the fruits of the agricultural work were to continue the work for the benoft of the farming community of the province.
The Forestry Department of! the province, through its head, 20 ramour says, found this plan very humiliating, as it seemed completely to ignore the provincial machinery. AS Mr. Ren was in attendance on the Marshal at Loyang, it is said that he insinuated that this scheme if carried out, would constitute an encroachment on Honan's sovereign rights, because there are] several foreigners in the Famine Relief Association. Needless to say the scheme has not been approved, though it would be of very great advantage to the pro-Vingo'and help in solving one of the great, engineering problems, of the Yellow River, that of keeping the bed from silting up: the very work that reclaims the bed adjoining the shores also Keope the channel open, and
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