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the agricultm-al colleges that we have mentioned. One 

 of these colleges is at Darmstadt. A useful poly- 

 technic school has recently been founded at Carlsruhe. 

 The fruit of these excellent establishments has been 

 chiefly to lay a foundation in the minds of a large class of 

 the people that disposes them to industrious activity, 

 and has prepared highly useful agents both for the 

 management of farms and of manufacturing establish- 

 ments. Few young men would now think of offering 

 themselves for the place of bailiff or farming agent, 

 without possessing testimonials of their fitness from 

 some of these colleges. The scientific exjjJanations 

 which any inquiring traveller can receive at the hands 

 of almost any young men so occupied on large estates, re- 

 specting the soil, climate, manners, &c. of the locality, 

 will often perhaps excite surprise, and no less so the 

 calculations by which they judge whether improved pro- 

 cesses ought to be adopted, and where additional outlay 

 or increased economy is the more judicious plan to 

 follow. 



Besides the large estates in the Grand Duchy of 

 Darmstadt that we have already noticed as under scien- 

 tific management, we may name the estate of Baron von 

 Babo, near Weinheim, as very accessible from Heidel- 

 berg. From Baden-Baden excursions may be made to 

 Rothenfels and Augustenburg, country-seats belonging to 

 the Margrave William of Baden, which have*long served 

 as pattern farms. Baron von Babo is an author on agri- 

 cultural subjects, and the result of a few out of numerous 

 experiments that he has caused to be made with ploughs, 

 will both show the interest with which intelligent 

 farmers follow improvements in Germany, and will throw 



