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instruction is increased in winter and during rainy days. They 

 are the sons of peasants well off in the world, having enough 

 to rent or buy a farm. They enter for three years and are not 

 admitted for a less term. 



The sheep are regarded as about the most profitable branch 

 of the farm. 



This institution is practically self-supporting. It receives 

 ten thousand florins a year from the government. That is 

 equivalent to a little over $4,000, but I was told that with a 

 hundred students it could pay its way. 



WEIHENSTEPHAN. 



The Agricultural Institute of Weihenstephan holds the first 

 rank in Bavaria. It was modelled, apparently, after that at 

 Hohenheim. It is situated at the little old town of Reising, 

 some twenty miles from Munich, on what was originally, I 

 believe, a part of the public domain of Schleissheim, the royal 

 buildings of which domain lie within six or seven miles of 

 Munich, and where there is still a school of practical farming 

 similar to the Ackerbauschule, or peasant school, at Hohen- 

 heim. 



The location of the school and farm of Weihenstephan is 

 very fine. The immense buildings stand on a beautiful hill, 

 overlooking a wide extent of country, and within fifteen or 

 twenty minutes' walk from the railway station. I arrived there 

 from Ratisbon on a- bright summer morning, introduced myself 

 to the first man I met, told him my object and learned at what 

 hours the various lectures took place, attended two or three of 

 them and became acquainted with the professors, visited and 

 examined the collections, the stables, the brewery, the farm and 

 experimental field, the sheep, &c. 



Tlie estate lying in connection with this institute comprises, 

 I believe, about 650 acres, of which there are usually about 80 

 in wheat, over 40 in rape and root crops, about 35 in oats, 12 

 to 15 in potatoes, 15 to 20 in rye, 18 to 20 in barley, 8 to 10 in 

 beans, 5 in hops, about 130 in fodder crops, such as lucerne, 

 clover, vetches, &c., while about 150 are in mowing fields and 

 so on. The land is of excellent quality. 



The stock consists of 12 horses, 22 pairs of oxen, 59 milch 

 cows, 7 young cattle, 30 swine, and 570 sheep. The cows are 



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