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origin of the farm is no less interesting than the results 

 obtained by the comparatively small means at its command. 

 The chief fund consists in the subscriptions of the mem- 

 bers of the Agricultural Society of the Duchy of Nassau, 

 the contributions to which are rated so low as not to debar 

 almost the poorest from joining. Five shillings per 

 annum, collected from about 1500 members, with some 

 other sources of revenue, suffice to pay the interest on 

 the purchase-money of the farm, to keep it at work, and to 

 publish a weekly journal containing useful agricultural 

 intelligence. The other sources of revenue consist in the 

 sale of the produce of the farm, which is not of much 

 moment, as the experiments are of course not all suited 

 to the wants of the neighbourhood. Attached to the 

 farm is a seminary in which lectures are held that have a 

 bearing on agriculture. Natural history, mineralogy, 

 botany, zoology, the theory of agriculture, and tech- 

 nology ; besides veterinary surgery and agricultural book- 

 kieeping ; form a course that is completed by students 

 easily in three winter half years. The summer they are 

 recommended to spend on some farms where they can 

 learn the practice of husbandry. Natives of the Duchy 

 have free instruction at this college, in consideration of a 

 yearly addition to its revenues, granted by the state. 

 Strangers pay 44 florins (about 4/.) for the half-year's 

 instruction, which is conducted by highly qualified pro- 

 fessors. The grounds are divided into portions on which 

 the agricultural systems of England and Flanders, Meck- 

 lenburg, Holstein, and the improved ordinary village 

 course are followed, and the results thus made intelligible 

 to the scholars. Irrigated meadows form one part, and 

 a garden and nursery another part, of the grounds. A 



