According to a Chinese dispatch to a vernacular paper the Governor of Kuangsi province has informed the Ministry of Agricultare, Industry and Commerce that one Kuo Cheng-li the Teng! district in Wachoufa, Kuangsi, bad planted pines in the 13th year of Kuang Hu ata place called Kubochung, over an area of ten li square, He has also spent much labour in opening roads in irrigation and taking care of the plants, with the result that there are over 10,000 pines of forty or fifty feet in height, between 30,000 and 40,000 pines of thirty or forty feet about an equal number between 10 20 feet. These and others amount altogether to about 600,000 trees while some 100,000 are usefal for lamber. The Governor requests the Ministry to apply for a reward to be conferred on Kuo, and as the Ministry finds that be has more than accomplished what would entitle him
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