164 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Here is a notice translated from the printed circular, or pro- 

 gramme : " Every pupil, as he enters, has to bring with him 

 a bed, with three coverlids, — the school furnishes bedstead and 

 mattress, — one Sunday and two week-day suits, a trunk to 

 keep his clothes and linen in, 6 shirts, 2 pairs of stockings, 6 

 towels, 6 pocket-handkerchiefs, 2 blue aprons, 2 pairs of boots, 

 a pair of slippers, a comb, a wash-bowl, 2 plates, a couple of 

 knives and forks, a spoon, a couple of cups and saucers, clothes 

 and shoe brushes, — all to be marked, if possible." It's a con- 

 venient thing to have one's wardrobe so minutely specified. 



As I have alluded to the agricultural school at Jena, con- 

 nected with the university, I will also say a word in regard to 

 one or two others of the same class ; that is, connected in a 

 similar manner with other institutions. 



POPPELSDORP, NEAR BONN. 



The agricultural college at Poppelsdorf, connected with the 

 university at Bonn, I had taken in my trip up the Rhine. It 

 is some ten miles above Cologne, beautifully situated on the 

 left bank of the river, within sight of the far-famed Siebenge- 

 birge, or seven mountains, and the Drachenfels. Bonn is 

 beautified by the most attractive terraces along the river, and 

 a magnificent avenue leading to Poppelsdorf, nearly a mile, 

 studded with superb chestnuts in double rows, on either side. 



I called at once on Dr. Hartstein, the director of the agricul- 

 tural school, who kindly gave me the information I sought in 

 regard to its present position and prosperity. Close by his house 

 is an ancient castle, now used as a depository of the extensive 

 scientific collections belonging to the university, to which the 

 students in agriculture have access. Tlxe model farm of the 

 agricultural institute is also close at hand. This is lised for 

 the purposes of experiment, and the crops on the experimental 

 plots were very striking. Extensive mulberry hedges surround 

 the fields, and the silk-worm was in the full tide of successful 

 operation. 



The scientific lectures extend over not only the branches 

 requisite in the department of agriculture, but also the funda- 

 mental and auxiliary sciences connected with it, viz.: — 



