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On the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first pages of his report, Mr. Pugh 

 speaks of the apparatus and natural history collections and museums essential 

 to the proper instruction in each study. But we omit referring specially to 

 what he regards as necessary, for Mr. Owen fully sets it forth in his communi- 

 cation. 



III. Agricultural schools, without instruction in languages and mathematics. 

 Whilst these do not teach either modern or ancient languages, and pure mathe- 

 matics, they yet adopt a scientific course, greater or less in different institutions, 

 but their chief object is a practical instruction, having reference to such prepa- 

 ration of the student as will qualify him for the superintendence of a farm. 



Among the first of such schools in Europe is that of Hohenheim, and to it 

 Mr Flint appears to have given much attention. In the theory of agriculture 

 it requires but two hours each day of instruction, and the sciences do not ap- 

 pear to be taught to any great extent. Stock-raising is one of the highest im- 

 portance connected with it, atid to its general practical course of instruction it 

 has added several special ones, among which are gardening, fruit, silk, and bee 

 culture, distilling, natural economy, and manufacture of agricultural implements, 



It lias an experimental field, and as this feature of its instruction is admirably 

 adapted to the improvement of American agriculture, we quote what Mr. Flint 

 says of it: 



The experimental field was designed, not only as a means of instruction for 

 the students, but also as a means of investigation on the part of the professors. 

 For this purpose the plots appropriated to each experiment consist of nearly a 

 quarter of an acre each a size sufficient to give to each a fair and full trial in 

 management, manuring, cost of culture, results, &c. The fact that there are 

 ninety-six of these plots indicates that this part of the enterprise receives its 

 due share of attention. It also offers the means of raising a great variety of 

 seeds which supply the wants of t/ie farm, and form an important item in the 

 receipts of the institute, WHILE IT SKCURES TO THE FARMERS OF THE COUNTRY 



A CERTAIN SOURCE FROM WHICH THEY CAN OBTAIN PURE SEED. But the ex- 

 periments on the farm are not wholly confined to this field. Among those that 

 have been tried the following may be mentioned : 



1. Upon the transmission of caries in grain, and the influence of washing, 

 soaking, fermentation of the seed on the stock, as well as on the age and change 

 of seed. 



2. Observations on the sensitiveness of growing plants to frost. 



3. On the effect of large, middle-sized, and small seed potatoes. 



4. On plucking off the blossoms of potatoes. 



5. On the exhaustion of land by rape culture. [Here it should be by tobacco 

 and corn culture.] 



6. On the exhaustion of wheat, in comparison with green plants, and fallow. 



7. On the culture, year after year, of beets on the same land by constantly 

 fresh manuring. [Here it should be of all our crops, especially of cotton, sugar- 

 cane, corn, tobacco, potatoes, &c., requiring summer cultivation, in comparison 

 with crops sown in the fall, as wheat, barley, and rye, both with and without 

 manuring.] 



8. On the continued culture of artichokes on the same land, with manuring 

 every tlxree years. 



9. On the effect of mowing, or not mowing, the late clover stubble in autumn. 

 [The second crop we suppose is here meant.] 



10. On .depasturing of winter barley. 



11. On .the manuring of meadows. 



12. On manuring with Peruvian, Baker's Island, and fish guanos, rape-meal, 

 bone-meal, superphosphate, Chili saltpetre, salt, gypsum, gas lime, soda, peat, 

 ashes, Liebig's patent manure, artificial manures. 



