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Germany. — In order to obtain a correct opinion of the 

 agriculture of a country, a man must not only view the 

 country with his own eyes, but his eyes must be taught 

 both what to look for, and how to look for it. The reports 

 of travellers who are unskilled in rural matters — the edu- 

 cational institutions of the country itself — and even its 

 agricultural statistics, are all unsafe guides where a really 

 correct appreciation is desired of its true position in refer- 

 ence to this important branch of social economy. This 

 observation is illustrated by the actual condition of the 

 several branches of rural economy when compared with 

 the state of agricultural instruction, and with the attention 

 which has been paid to statistics in the different Kingdoms 

 of Germany, and in France. 



Saxony. — In Saxony, a country greatly favored by na- 

 ture in the character of its soils, the chief attention of the 

 great landholders and of the government, has been long 

 directed to the improvement of the breed of sheep, from 

 which the celebrated Saxon wool is obtained. This King- 

 dom exhibits generally a very different appearance from the 

 neighbouring country of Bavaria. In passing from the 

 latter kingdom to the former, you "seem to pass," says 

 Mr. Royer^ "from the desert into the land of promise." 

 " Two-thirds of the rich proprietors in Saxony," he ob- 

 serves, "cultivate their own properties, and have establish- 

 ed an order, neatness, and method, which, though far from 

 agricultural perfection, you seek for in vain in France." 



WuRTEMBERG. — In the Kingdom of Wurtemberg, where 

 the instruction at the agricultural school of Hohenheim and 

 elsewhere, is better organized, and at this moment more 

 famed, than in any other part of Germany, and where, in 

 fact, the art of culture as a whole is the farthest advanced, 



