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of the whole business of farming, and also so much mechanism as to 

 be able to make or mend every machine and implement used in farm- 

 ing. The teaching tends to make thorough economists of them, so 

 that their farms shall always continue to improve. They are not 

 taught abstract science, chemical or otherwise, but the positive knowl- 

 edge, the soils, manures, rotation of crops, the kind of work, number 

 of men, horses and cattle required on a given amount of acres. He 

 wished that our people knew the importance of the Agricultural 

 Schools of Europe, and hoped that our government would see the 

 propriety and necessity of liberal patronage, for such a course of ed- 

 ucation among ourselves, for it would give energy to agricultural 

 labors and result in the most incalculable benefits to our country. I 

 have been four years at the Royal Bavarian School of Agriculture. 



I ought to remark, that on the plains of Hungary, they often ex- 

 perience much loss from diseases in their sheep. 



Chairman. What are those diseases? 



Mr. Fleischman. The rot, the foot rot and the lung worm; I lost 

 nearly 400 fine ewes once, from the neglect of the shepherd, who 

 had carelessly allowed the sheep to get to a pond where they drank, 

 and immediately became diseased. 



All the perfection of farming in Europe, is due to their agricultu- 

 ral schools, and in this republic where we ought to be first we are 

 second. The monarchs of Europe have discovered the necessity and 

 they are now ahead of us. The remarks I here make, are only ex- 

 tracts from documents which are intended for publication. I attend- 

 ed an examination of agricultural scholars at Breslau, and was sur- 

 prised at the sound practical knowledge exhibited by the young menj 

 I have loved this subject for twenty years. Let me remark, here, 

 how beautiful, how scientific, how noble are the works now in ex- 

 istence in Lombardy, for irrigating their lands, how excellent their 

 cultivation. I had admired the splendid statues from the chisel of 

 Canova, but I own that I turned my eyes from them to the more en- 

 chanting scenes of highly cultivated fields. 



Chairman. We have listened to the speaker with deep interest and 

 unmingled pleasure. He has given us a discourse full of practical 

 knowledge, and of such importance as no man can deny; and we find 

 it now peculiarly interesting, for the American Institute is at this 

 time engaged in strenuous endeavors to establish an Agricultural 

 School of the highest order; we have already found a location, where 



