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stitute, caused the beets to be placed on the table of the Farmers* 

 Club to-day ; they more resemble stumps of trees tlian garden 

 vegetables. The bald barley received from Mr. Williams is a 

 splendid grain. The clerk of tlie Institute, John W. Chambers, 

 weighed it in our Chondrometer, and it proved to be sixty-^wo 

 mid a half jwunds to the bushel. 



The best barley of the United States is from forty-eight to 

 fifty-one pounds per bushel. 



The Secretary read the following translation made by him : 



[L'Allemagne Agricole, luduBtricUc et Politique.] 



From Alexandre Vattemare. Germany, her Agricultural In- 

 dustry and Policy : Journies in 1840,1841 and 1842, by Emile 

 Jacquemin, Member of the Carlo-Leopoldine Academy of Natu- 

 ral Science, Germany. Printed in Paris, 1842, at No- 22 Rue 

 Coquilliere (Shell street.) 



Extracts translated by Henry Meigs. 



Preface. German agriculture has hitherto remained almost 

 entirely unknown, and yet, however, it offers a vast and fruitful 

 field of study for us, and which it is our interest to look into. 

 It is certainly not my intention to propose German agriculture as 

 an accomplished model for us ; but I must sa}' that we shall find 

 mucli to borrow, and that it presents an ample harvest of facta 

 worthy to be gathered by us. Numerous experiments followed 

 by happy results, agricultural societies, congresses of economists, 

 agricultural legislature, all these have come to a union in 

 Germany, to give birth there to a distinct literature, which la 

 sufiicient to fill vast libraries, and which it is our duty to endea- 

 vor to know. Germany, by its regrovving industry, by the tend- 

 ency of its policy to re-constitute the ancient German Unity, by 

 the total reform in which it is now in labor, merits in the highest 

 degree our attention. 



Having lived there eighteen years and travelled much in it, I 

 am enabled to know their manners and taste, and the charactear 

 and intelligence of her people, and what the relations of the na- 

 tions of which it is composed are in their respective governments. 

 And it is not from the inside of a post-coach, or in large citle8| 



