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At the model farm near Leipsic, there is no course of scientific in- 

 struction, but the sons of farmers are received as laborers, and receive 

 purely practical instruction under the direction of a superintendent. 

 The school and farm near Munich is attended also by the sons of far- 

 mers exclusively. A portion of every morning is devoted to the school- 

 room, and the remainder of the day to work. The scientific instruction 

 here is elementary. 



At Hohenheim, I found a model farm of seven hundred acres. The 

 buildings, once a palace, are extensive. There is a room filled with mod- 

 els of all agricultural implements that, I believe, have ever been invent- 

 ed. I found here among the rest, some American ploughs which had 

 been in the Great Exhibition at London in 1851. In another room are 

 collected specimens of all seeds and grains. There is a large stall of 

 specimen cattle. There are a brewery and a distillery. There are a 

 botanical garden — a nursery of forests trees — a nursery of fruit trees — 

 and a vegetable garden. There is a portion of the farm laid out for 

 purpose of making experiments upon different kinds of j^roducts and 

 manures. And there is a large portion of the farm where farming in 

 general is carried on according to the most appro\ed methods. There 

 is also a large work-shop where ploughs and other agricultural imj^le- 

 ments are manufactured for sale. I saw a quantity of beautiful ploughs 

 packed for Bucharest. 



There are here two classes of students. First, the purely scientific 

 olass — composed principally of young men of means and estate. This 

 is the lai-gest class, consisting of about one hundred young men. The 

 coui-se of instruction is conducted by able professors — among whom is 

 Thaer, well known for his very able work on agriciilture, copies of which 

 in German and English will be found among the agricultirral works I 

 have purchased for our University Library. The studies embrace, 

 among other branches, natural philosophy, zoology, botany, and chem- 

 istry, with their applications to agriculture. The second class consists 

 of the sons of farmers, and the course is similar to that near Munich : 

 a portion of the morning being devoted to elementary instruction in 

 agricultural science, and the remainder of the day to work. This class 

 numbered, when I was there, some twenty-five or thirty young men. 

 They were charged for board and tuition, and received wages for their 

 labor. Besides these, about a hundred and fifty laborers are employed 



