332 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



met my eye in various parts of the shelves, not being arranged 

 together. It was pleasant to look upon their familiar pages at 

 that distance from home. 



The general agricultural system of the country, that is, the 

 means and machinery employed by the government to encourage 

 the development of agriculture, do not differ very materially 

 from those I have already indicated in speaking of the agri 

 culture of Wurtemburg. There is, as already indicated, a 

 royal agricultural school, modeled chiefly, I should think, after 

 that at Hohenheim, a veterinary school, professorships of agri- 

 culture in the universities, very much the same as at Tubingen 

 and, I think, something like twenty teachers of agriculture in 

 the higher schools and institutes of Technology in various parts 

 of the kingdom, and in addition, a general society of agricul- 

 ture of several thousand members. The whole system is under 

 the general control of the Minister of the Interior, I believe. 

 How far these various instrumentalities have succeeded, how 

 large a proportion of the improvement and progress actually 

 made is due to them, I cannot say, but they are doubtless doing 

 a good work or the government would not continue its liberal 

 bounties. 



Bavaria is not so favorably located, nor is the soil so favorable 

 for the production of large crops, as many other countries of 

 Germany. An immense and elevated table land stretches off 

 from the Alps. A large part of the country, in fact, consists of 

 a vast plain lying so high as not to be favorable for fruits, with a 

 soil by no means rich and a climate by no means propitious. 

 We see here none of the vast and luxuriant orchards of pears 

 and apples and plums of Wurtemburg scattered generally 

 over the country. So far as I could judge, the operations of 

 practical agriculture, such as ploughing, harrowing, rolling, 

 the care of cattle and a thousand other things, were less 

 perfectly performed than in Wurtemburg. 



Munich is a city of about one hundred and twenty tliousand 

 inhabitants, situated on the Iscr. It is full of interest, its 

 variety of attractions being sufficient to gratify every taste. In 

 architecture it is rather plain, many of the buildings are in the 

 Bysantinc style, but very neat. Every tiling is peculiarly 

 German. In passing through the streets, such signs as " Coffee 

 and Wine House of the Kinurdom of Heaven," " Tavern of the 



