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described the Academy of Agriculture and Forest 

 Culture at Little Hohenheim, at that time almost 

 unknown in America: 



The pupils are mostly from wealthy families. A finer set 

 of young men I have not seen elsewhere in Europe. They 

 are described as full of zeal in the prosecution of their studies, 

 and when contemplating their animated and intelligent coun- 

 tenances, I could but hope that the day will shortly come when 

 the United States shall also engage her intelligent sons in 

 similar preparation for similar duties. Most of the graduates 

 of this Academy are afterwards occupied with the manage- 

 ment of great estates. . . . My stay in Hohenheim was ren- 

 dered peculiarly agreeable by the kind attentions of Prof. 

 Wolff, whose acquaintance I had made in Moeckern, near 

 Leipsic. Hohenheim has never had until now a man among 

 its faculty who has united eminent scientific ability with prac- 

 tical knowledge. It has been fortunate for the Academy that 

 practice has hitherto held there such dominant sway. It is 

 equally fortunate for it that it now has a teacher who is able 

 to show that practice and science harmonize in most points, 

 and who labors not so much to immortalize himself by pro- 

 pounding and defending ingenious theories, as to advance 

 practical agriculture by attempting the solution of the prob- 

 lems that are encountered in daily life. 



Prof. Wolff has had fitted up a spacious though simple 

 Laboratory in which he instructs a goodly number of the 

 pupils in chemical analysis. He finds that when the course is 

 rightly conducted, it proves highly interesting, as it cannot 

 fail to be highly profitable for the pupils. It is in the Labora- 

 tory, and from the teachings of the capable agricultural 

 chemist that agriculture is to make rapid advances in its 

 doctrines and literature, while from practical instruction, the 

 existing good systems are to be brought into general appli- 

 cation. Hohenheim has hitherto been efficient in diffusing 

 agricultural knowledge; hereafter it cannot fail to become 



