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•earth, and the productions of its industrious and skillful population 

 to the busy commercial cities. 



Science is cultivated with success. Its chemists devote themselves 

 to lift the veil of nature's secret operations, and show the agricul- 

 turist how to enrich the soil. 



The fine arts embellish the huge walls of its magnificent churches 

 and palaces. 



Magnificent monuments adorn the shores of its rivers, and give 

 testimony of the high degree of taste in architecture. 



Taste, the offspring of education shows itself every where. 



The system of education is with every day more perfected. Every 

 village has its school, where the children of the farmer are made ac- 

 quainted with facts in agriculture and horticulture. 



And all that must be ascribed to Germany's improved agriculture, 

 the true basis of a nation's welfare. 



The agricultural schools of Germany are carried on on large scales. 

 The experimental farms are very extensive, and various technological 

 branches connected with them. 



For instance, the school Schleissheim, in Bavaria, where I spent 

 several years, is one of the largest in Europe. 



In the year 1822, that school was commenced — has become since 

 the central school of that Kingdom, which has now 16, as I stated 

 already. 



Schleissheim is about seven miles from Munich, the Capital of 

 Bavaria. That extensive estate belongs to the Crown, and affords 

 all the necessary requisites for a school. 



To Schleissheim belong 7000 acres of land, of which 



1200 acres are fields; 

 700 acres meadows; 

 2000 acres low, wet prairies; 

 2600 acres woodland and clue; 

 Rest of about 600 acres pasture land. 



