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Though the imperial school was detached from the charge of 

 the agricultural society the personnel of instruction and the 

 relations of the students, with the body carrying on the farm, 

 have not changed. The society and direction furnish, as 

 formerly, all the means of study and investigation that can be 

 desired. The school and the farm are under the same director. 



The pupils are required to work four hours a day, and are 

 successively charged with different service on the farm, which 

 they are called upon to observe daily. They assist from four 

 and a half in the morning, in the order of work which the 

 director gives to the different chiefs, and in the evening they 

 assist in the daily reports which are given in to the director, 

 and in entering upon the books the reports upon all the opera- 

 tions of the farm. The labors which they perform are various. 

 They comprise the cultivation, the care of animals, the manu- 

 factories, the permanent improvements, building of roads, the 

 care of the forest, the gardens, &c. They attend, during the visits 

 of the veterinary surgeon, in the cattle stalls ; they curry the 

 cattle and horses, and perform various operations under the 

 directions of the heads of the various branches. Each pupil is 

 obliged to make a detailed report to the director upon the work 

 he performs, and is allowed to make any suggestions he may see 

 fit, which are accepted and acted on when practicable. 



This constitutes the practical part of their education. Two 

 are appointed as general inspectors under the orders of the 

 director, and the duties alternate ; that is, a certain number 

 has charge of one department for a certain length of time, say a 

 week or a month, and then they are assigned to another depart- 

 ment in succession ; as, for instance, four may be charged with 

 the management of the oxen ; two with that of the horses ; two 

 with the pigs ; two with the sheep ; two with the poultry ; four 

 with the silk-worm establishment ; forming thus a sort of 

 committee on each branch, the duty of which is to see that 

 proper attention is paid to all the details, as among stock, to 

 see that it is properly fed, to note the results of any changes of 

 feed, &c. So, too, with the garden ; two or more ^'e appointed ; 

 two on woods and plantations ; two to inspect the repairs and 

 improvements going on ; two on the manufacture of starch, 

 cheese and other manufactured products ; two on book-keeping 

 and accounts, &c. 



