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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



sixty students, simply in chemical studies. The collections 

 are unsurpassed. A large hall is filled with agricultural 

 implements, placed there by their makers, who replace them 

 from time to time by later improvements. Steam-power 

 and shafting admit of practical illustrations of power-driven 

 machinery. The botanical collection embraces some two 

 thousand specimens of wood, and over eighteen thousand 

 of different kinds of corn, seeds and fibres, together with a 

 valuable exhibit of artificial feeding stufis, both in the raw 

 and manufactured condition. The zoological collection, 

 illustrating in the most complete manner the history of 

 domestic animals, contains about three thousand specimens. 

 The zootechnical, particularly that pertaining to wool, is of 

 the highest interest and value ; for not only does it furnish 

 examples of fibre of the dififerent breeds, but of difierent 

 flocks of the same breed, and the gradual improvement in 

 fibre by careful selection in breeding. The instruction, it 

 is needless to say, is of the very highest order, and embraces 

 every phase of technical, applied and economic agriculture. 

 The fees for instruction, considering the advantages ofiered, 

 are very moderate, being about $50 per annum. 



Having spoken of the appliances for education at Berlin, 

 let me briefly speak of the management of the farm at the 

 famous Royal Agricultural Academy at Hohenheim. It 

 consists of 760 acres. Of this, 480 is arable land, cropped 

 under the three followincr rotations : — 



ROUGH-FIELD. 



Vetxjhes for fodder, 



Rape for seed, 



Wheat, 



Green crops, 



Barley with clover, 



Clover, 



Spelt. 



SMOOTH-FIELD. 



Rape for seed. 



Rye with red clover. 



Clover, mowed, 



Clover, fed, 



Oats, 



Green crops and pota- 

 toes. 



Rye with hybrid and 

 white clover and 

 gi-ass seeds. 



Grass, mown, 



Grass, fed, 



St. John's rye and fal- 

 low, manured and 

 folded. 



DAIRY-FIELD. 



Beans and green maize, 



manured, 

 Winter wheat. 

 Green crops. 

 Spring corn and clorer. 

 Clover, 

 Clover, 

 Spelt, 

 Lucerne, 

 Lucerne. 



