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The nurseries on the farm are extensive and the sales from 

 them profitable ; but probably the brewery is the most profitable 

 branch of the establishment. Here are used more than ten thou- 

 sand bushels of malt a year. In the year ending with July 1st, 

 1863, it used 3,668 Bavarian scheffel, or about eleven thousand 

 bushels. In the same year over a thousand bushels of potatoes 

 were used in the distillery. There were sold from the nursery, 

 in the same time, 8,520 trees. 



Just before I was there a terribly destructive hail-storm had 

 occurred, and I never saw such magnificent fields of wheat and 

 other grain so completely riddled and ruined. It was painful 

 to look upon. It had given promise of an extraordinary yield 

 up to the time of the hail, but it was very nearly a dead loss 

 when I saw it. A committee of appraisers from the insurance 

 company for crops was on to estimate the damages. Tlie wide- 

 spread system of insurance, of which the institute had fortu- 

 nately availed itself, saved it from very great loss, which 

 otherwise would have fallen very heavily upon it. 



I was indebted to Professors May and Dohlemann for many 

 kind attentions. The director was much occupied with the 

 people who were to estimate the damage of the storm. 



I should add that much instruction is given in the field and 

 the nurseries, in the barn and other parts of the establishment, 

 by practical demonstrations. There is a reading-room and a 

 library ; there are extensive collections and other appliances. 



SCHLEISSHEIM. 



This is now a school of practical farming corresponding to 

 the Ackerbauschule at Hohenheim, that is, the pupils are the 

 sons of peasants mostly, and they enter the school to work a 

 considerable part of the time. The number of students at the 

 time of my visit was thirty-four. 



This school was founded in 1822 as a higher agricultural 

 institute like Hohenheim, but the lands at Weihenstephan 

 being well adapted to the purposes of a model farm, the higher 

 department was removed to that estate some years ago, leaving 

 Schleissheim, and this latter has since remained as a school of 

 practice. The estate consists of about six thousand five hun- 

 dred acres, and like many other establishments of the kind, it 

 possesses a fine old royal residence or chateau, the whole lying 



