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The farm buildings consist of cow and horse stalls, shed and 

 coach house. There were about thirty cows, consisting of 

 AUgauers and Simmenthalers, a few Ansbachers^nd EUingers. 

 The roof of the cow-house is built of wood, the sides of stone. 



The instruction at this institute is not strictly agricultural. 

 Much of it, in fact, has no more bearing on agriculture than 

 on any other calling. Religion, the German language, geog- 

 raphy, arithmetic, zoology and drawing are prescribed studies 

 in the first year. Agriculture and practical agricultural exer- 

 cises come in for a share of attention, but they don't seem to be 

 especially prominent in the programme. 



The second year is a continuation of the first, with a little 

 botany, geometry, mineralogy and history added, while in the 

 third year, agricultural chemistry, farm accounts, rural archi- 

 tecture, machinery, the anatomy and physiology of animals, vet- 

 erinary, medicine, drawing, riding, fencing and other practical 

 exercises come in and add variety. 



This institute ranks as intermediate in the list of Bavarian 

 agricultural schools. It has the advantage of close proximity 

 to the market of the curious old city of Niirnberg, and is, I 

 should think, in a tolerably flourishing condition. Niirnberg is 

 in Middle Franconia, somewhat over a hundred miles north of 

 Munich. 



INSTITUTE AT GRIGNON, IN FRANCE. 



I visited this celebrated school in company with Governor 

 Wright, of Indiana. It was a beautiful day in August, and tiie 

 excursion was, in many respects, highly interesting. 



The improvement of the soil of the country, and a cheap 

 production by means of this improvement ; the advantageous 

 employment in agriculture of the capital of the country ; th^ 

 continued occupation and elevation of the rural population of 

 France, and the increase of tliat population, were the principles 

 which led to the foundation of this establishment, in 1829. The 

 great precept of the first director, M. A. Bella, was that tlie 

 improvement of the soil is the most fruitful source of the cheap 

 production of the necessaries of life. 



King Charles X. bought tlie domain at Grignon, which was 

 selected by M. Bella, and granted it, for forty years, on the 

 following conditions : — 



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