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on the farm. I saw on this farm fine specimens of drainage also. The 

 land required it, and I saw some fields which had entiiely changed their 

 character by means of it. 



I was of coui-se shown into the hbrary of the institution. "How m£^- 

 ny volumes have you ?" I asked : the reply was — "Our library Is still 

 small and young — we have only 10,000 volumes." For my part I 

 thought it a very respectable number of books. But Germany has her 

 libraries which number hundreds of thousands. 



The school at Hohenlieim is certainly a very perfect model of an agri- 

 cultural institution. I have brought with me programmes of its studies, 

 its principal text-books, and a catalogue of its library. We can un- 

 questionably learn much from it. And yet the number of students is 

 ■small compared with the other institutions of Germany. Indeed, I did 

 not learn that the Agricultural Schools are generally so numerously at- 

 tended as other institutions. This is to be accounted for, I think, by the 

 fact that agricultural science is not confined to the Agricultural Schools, 

 but is taucfht wherever the other sciences are tauajht. A model farm 

 as depository of seeds, grains, and models ; a place for breeding choice 

 stocks of cattle ; of cultivating nurseries, and making experiments upon 

 products, soils and manures, connected also with a shop for agricultural 

 implements, may be made of great value, if placed mider the proper 

 direction. My impression is that the model farm of Hohenheim is of 

 great practical value considered independently of the school. Education 

 is given elsewhere as thoroughly ; but the fai-m is an experimental af- 

 fair, and an agricultural depository, independently of the school. If there 

 were not ten students assembled there, it might still produce invaluable 

 results. 



The wide diffusion of education in Gennany, and in Prussia partic- 

 ularly, shews its results in their industrial life. Large districts of Prus- 

 eia possess a light sandy soil. Berlin is situated in a plain of sand. 



Prussia has no sea-ports except on the Baltic. She has repeatedly 

 been subject to the most desolating ware ; and she has kept up a large 

 standing army, equal in all warUke appointments to any army in Eu- 

 rope. And yet she is flourishing and advancing. She seems with calm 

 strength to rise above all her disadvantages, whether poUtical or natm-al. 

 I think this only can be explained by the character of a people univer- 

 sally educated and discipHned to economy. 



