1C2 AGRICUJLTLRE ON TilK RHINE. 



exertion of intelligence. Their countrymen would be gla<l 

 to take what they had to give, and they might fix their 

 own conditions. In Germany, on the contrary, every 

 addition to the population increases the poverty of the 

 mass of the people, and diminishes the prospect of gain 

 for those who depend on market for remuneration. Hence 

 every year renders the farmer's task more and more dif- 

 ficult, and he is spurred to otudy his soil and his manures 

 that he may keep his ground under such difficult circum- 

 stances. In good farms, therefore, such as the estates of 

 the noblemen we have named, as well as on others that 

 might be added, and some of whom we shall notice in 

 going along, the management and economy observed 

 surpasses that found on the generality of farms in England. 

 The manager has no point given to start from in a pre- 

 scribed crop. lie must himself at the same time choose 

 his system of cultivation and hunt out his market. But 

 for every facility afforded him in his task he is well pre- 

 pared, and will turn it to advantage. He courts competi- 

 tion. Would that English farmers were not afraid of it ! 

 In passing Bonn we noticed shortly the agricultural 

 college of Popplesdorf, that has recently been established 

 there. Near Wiesbaden the traveller will find another, 

 which has, perhaps, had a more direct influence on the 

 country surrounding it. The manager, M. Albrecht, is 

 a gentlcm.an highly respected for his scientific acquire- 

 ments, and indefatigable in discharging the duties he has 

 undertaken. A walk up to the Geisberg will -well repay 

 the visitor to that fashionable watering-place, especially 

 in the summer and autumn, when he will find in the ex- 

 perimental farm the most interesting varieties of cultiva- 

 tion collected together from numerous districts. The 



