Before indicating the future po-hey which will be pursued in connexion with the colonization scheme, the results which have been attained at Purple Mountain are to be considered. On the higher slopes mit and other trees were planted, ud at the foothills were vegetables and cereals, particularly wheat, with mulberry trees in suitable places, Out of 1,000 of the trees which came from the United States not many more than a dozen perished, which is a rare record, and although a number of the other trees have died, there still remains 9 sufficient proportion to form the nudens of the forest which Mr. Bailie had in view.
Neither the potatoes nor the: strawberries were the success which was hoped, but the reason is not far For generations the mountain side had been stripped bare year after year by the inhabitants, who carried away the grass for fuel and on this account animals, who would otherwise have fertilized the soil, never passed over the ground in their search for food. Thus the soil was left without the beneficent ly different plan. As things were worked at Nanking there was one large gang of men to supervise, and it has been found that thie not the most satisfactory way. In Anhui, when the ground is once secured, it will be divided up into small holdings, probably of about thirty mow, and upon each of these will be stationed a family, one of those not yet wholly destitute. Besides the Labour of the members of the family a gang of about ten men will be allotted to each holding, and these will be employed until' the roperly broken and easy lof cultivation, when the family will be left to carry on as under usual auditions. The occupants of these nail farms will be made responible for the work, and in addition the responsibility of repayment, at some future date, of the money ursed will be thrown upon them.
As soon as the land is purchased start will be mage, and planting will begin right away. If nothing else is suitable the first crop will be beans, which in the spring will act as 8 fertilizer, but no be lost in making the holdings sources: of production.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.