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third, adjoining a public walk, is devoted to expe- 

 riments on various seeds and plants, hops, vines, &c. 

 The buildings join a spacious farm-yard, although, 

 only milch cows are kept, the labour being all done by 

 contract. 



The slender iund of the agricultural society still suffices 

 to afford a distribution of prizes to agricultural servants 

 for good conduct, and to keep up a small collection of 

 models and a library. A veterinary hospital is kept in 

 one part of the buildings, to which the farmers of the 

 ..neighbourhood and the people of the town resort. The 

 influence of the establishment has been great; chiefly 

 Jjecause the government has made it the direct organ for 

 >cncouraging improvements. The Director M. Albrecht 

 is not only encouraged to suggest improvements, but has 

 been employed as commissary for years together in the 

 carrying out a grand plan formed for improving the state 

 of the heights of the Westerwald, the name of which is 

 already familiar to the reader. The brooks and little 

 streams of a large district in those mountains have been 

 united where practicable, and led into situations that 

 allow them to overflow and irrigate a large extent of 

 jneadow land in the fashion of the meadows of Siegen. 

 JJesides the meadows attached to the farm, there are 

 others near Wiesbaden which bear testimony to the gain 

 resulting from the small exertion required to let the water 

 run over the land occasionally. 



, Wiesbaden js a good station to observe the two sides 

 that liave been pointed out in the present condition of 

 agriculture in Germany. The little town, which is not 

 much more than a considerable village, has also its two 

 sides. What may be called the aboriginal inhabitants 



