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The Duchy of Nassau has also an insurance society 

 against the mortality of cattle at Hofheim, with an 

 agency at Frankfort. This institution has been of great 

 benefit to the poor farmers since its establishment. 



In another contribution to the weekly journal, we 

 found a description of an improved management of under- 

 w^ood plantations on the plan of the " hauberge," that we 

 described as peculiar to Siegen. In some parts of Nassau, 

 after the wood is cut the ground is subjected to a three 

 years' rotation of crops. Rye is sown in the first year on 

 the soil manured by burning the sods ; oats follow in 

 the second ; and potatoes in the third year. Woods have, 

 according to this statement, been farmed out for three 

 years after cutting, at 5 florins the morgen, or 125. 6d. 

 the acre, per annum. The crop of broom that grows 

 spontaneously in the woods of Siegen seems to be lost 

 under this system. 



We extract from the eleventh volume of the Transac- 

 tions of this useful little society, the state of its funds in 

 1838, for the purpose of showing how easily such associa- 

 tions are established. 



