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Special attention may be drawn to Professor Joseph Railie's letter which we publish to-day, announcing the establishment. of 1 School of Forestry in connexion with the Agriculiural Depart-tent of Nanking University. The energies of this remarkably enterprising Department have, sines its commencement, been watched with keen interest hi any people who have realized its influence on the practical education of China—not the least attractive among the principles on which it works being the invariable rule that young men who are afraid to take off their coats and dirty their hands, who took upon the agriculture! school stepping-stone to lucrative sinecures in Ministries alrend= over-stocked, will find themselves pushed out more quickly than they entered. At present, prac. tically the whole of Purple Mountain is given up to colonization with lessons in map-making. construction of _firebreaks, building of roads, manufacture of brick, drainage, house-liding and general f-rining. Tu northern Anhui, at Taianhsion, the Colonization Association has shout 13,000 mow of land where
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