The Agricultural School is to be opened on Monday, September the 5th. The buildings at present consist of some adapted official offices near the Gate. There are ten scholars on the books, two of whom are paid but the others are supposed to pay for their tuition and food. A number of plants and trees have been imported from the United States. In spite of the unseasonable time of the year at which they were landed and the delays in transit caused by the war and the coolie strike la Shanghai, a good many are likely to live and more trees will probably be imported in the autumn. Two ins and a Jot of machinery and tools have also
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