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there is here a partion reserved for experiments ; but I could not 

 discover that it was applied to any further use than that of intro- 

 ducing specimens of plants not in general cultivation, which have 

 been recommended on the score of their agricultural value. 



At Grignon the director excused himself to me for not under- 

 taking experiments, alleging, that his institution was supported by 

 a number of shareholders, who naturally regarded it as an indis- 

 pensable condition that the land should yield a profitable return ; 

 but he remarked, that as the institutions in Germany, such as 

 those of Mogelin and of Hohenheim, were maintained by govern- 

 ment, researches calculated to throw light upon the principles 

 of agriculture might be expected to emanate from them. 



I found, however, no attempts of this description at Hohenheim, 

 nor can I discover from Mr. Jacob's account that any such were 

 contemplated at Mogelin, even whilst it continued under the 

 auspices of so enlightened an agriculturist as Von Thaer. Indeed 

 I do not believe that a model and an experimental farm can ever go 

 together, desirable as it undoubtedly is that they should occur in 

 each other's vicinity, and I earnestly wish that the distinction be- 

 tween the character of an institution founded for the purpose of 

 giving pul3licity to the most approved methods of husbandry at 

 present known, and that of one designed to invent or discover 

 improved systems, were more generally appreciated — it being not 

 less wide than what exists between the person who lectures on 

 the principles of a science, and one who strives to enlarge its ex- 

 isting boundaries — as distinct, in short, as are the merits of a Brande 

 and a Davy ; of a Hope and a Dalton. 



The King of Bavaria has also founded a somewhat similar 

 establishment to the one just described, at a short distance from 

 Munich, and the domain appended to the royal palace of 

 Schleissheim is given up for the purposes of a model farm, and 

 as a place for providing instruction to young men in the principles 

 and practice of husbandry. The scheme of education proposes to 

 be modelled on the same general plan as that of Hohenheim, 

 but when I visited it in 1840 the whole of the institution ap- 

 peared to me on a much inferior scale. There were twenty-one 

 scholars belonging to the upper, and eleven belonging to the 

 lower class, but the latter are in fact not better than field- 

 labourers ; and even the former are expected to take a part in the 

 labours of the farm, being, as I should conceive, nearly of the same 

 grade as those of the lower department at Hohenheim. Ac- 

 cordingly the higher class pay only 150 florins a-year, (less than 

 15/. sterling), the lower not more than 60 florins (less than 6/.) 



The land all about Schleissheim indicates its inferior pro- 

 ductiveness in being chiefly covered by pine-forests, and the 

 domain made over to the establishment is itself so notoriously 



