che Editor of the "Norta-Cuina Dairy News."
Sim,—The Forestry Fund Committee in Shanghai has already sent ese students to the School of Forestry in Manila. Some of these have already graduated and have proved to be such fine fellows that the whole staff in Mat have become intensely interested in the great problems ahead of their Chinese On learning of the opening of a Department of Agriculture in this University, the Director of Forestry in Manila wrote us, offering to cooperate in the estab School of Forestry in connexion with this Department and at the same time wrote Mr. Ngan Han, Head of the Bureau of Forestry in Peking and Mr. 8, R. Sheldon, Secretary of the Forestry Fund Committee in Shanghai, requesting and urging their cooperation. In the letter he wrote us the Director offered to send over two of the best expert foresters that the U. 8. Government has sent to the Bureau of Forestry in Manila to help us organize the school, lay out the course of study, investigate conditions here, and in general to set the school in running order and deliver a few lectures.
He has also recommended that we appoint, as one of the teachers this school, Mr. Soong, who just graduated from their school. This we would be only too glad to do only that we have not the money to pay his salary ($50 a month).
The Head of the Bureau of Forestry in Peking has entered with enthusiasm into this plan of cooperation and has matters so arranged now that all that is necessary for the formal cooperation is the signature of -H.E. the Minister of Agriculture. This we hope to secure soon and would have waited for, only we desire to notify students as soon as possible that we sre opening school of Forestry this spring.
The Forestry Fund Committee in Shanghai have proved their desire to cooperate by voting three scholarships this year to students entering the Forestry School. These scholarships entitle the holders to free tuition and board at our University for this year, and for the full course of four years if the progress of the students is satisfactory at the end of each year.
The holders of these scholarships will be decided by competitive exmination. These examinations will be conducted on the next three days following the examinations for entrance to the Agricultural Department, and only those who pass that entrance examination or have ore-denials from other schools equip. aleut to graduation in the Hi School of the University of Nanking can compete.
We hope that some publi citizens of some of the in China may gather together and establish scholarship in Forestry This I make bold as it is impossible with the war in Europe raging to expect any help from the West. If each provincial capital sent even three stud_ ents we could have men in a few yerrs at least to begin work that would pay a thousand per cent. on the outlay in a very short time. All that is needed for a scholarship for one student. $130 first year and $190 the following years or in round numbers $500 Mex.
Thanking you for your courtesy in giving space to this letter, Tam, ete, Joseen Battle.
Nanking, Jan, 11.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.