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The soil is sandy — about eight Jnehes deep. The sub-soil calca^ 

 reous gravel 



The climate is cold and changeable, arising from the altitude of 

 the place 1471 Parisian feet above the level of the sea; and from the 

 neighboring mountains and extensive marshy lands surrounding the 

 farm. 



Not far from Schleissheim are two other royal farms of 1000 acres, 

 with a different soil, and a more favorable climate: one with a rich 

 but stiff clay, and the other with a sandy clay soil — which affords^ 

 the pupils the opportunity to see the mode of working and cultiva- 

 ting various soils; 



The buildings upon all these estates are very extensive and well 

 constructed, for their object; especially those of Schleissheim, which 

 are vast and commodious, but solid and all fire proof consisting of. 



A Stable for 112 cows-; 

 One for 60 horses; 

 Another for 70 oxen; 

 And airy, large buildings, for 3000 head of sheep. 



Besides these buildings, there are large barns, granaries, flour and 

 saw mills, straw-cutters, and thrashing machines, worked by water 

 power, an extensive brewery, a distillery, a tar-oven, brick and lime^ 

 kilns, large bee house. There is a vegetable garden, an orchard, and 

 extensive nurseries for fruit and mulberry trees. 



The forests furnish means to study the culture of forest; the best 

 mode of burning coal; on the prairies, the various modes of digging; 

 and preparing turf are shown. 



The buildings of the school are like the rest, vast, and suitable for 

 the purpose. They contain many comfortable rooms, for the profess^ 

 ors and pupils, large lecture and recitation rooms, dining halls, a fine 

 chemical and technical laboratory, a library, rooms for a collection 

 of models for a zoological cabinet, another for minerals, and the va 

 rious soils and sub-soils of that Kingdom — besides the Ian i, which is 

 divided into 20 fields. 



There is a large experimental field, upon which every mode of 

 culture, plants, manure, &c. &c., are tried. 



