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Agriculture, which has been asleep for ages, is now awakening, 

 thanks to the progress of chemistry and the natural sciences ; 

 every thing having an intellectual origin shows, and is disembar- 

 rasing itself of those fetters which prevent its free development. 

 Agriculture has been the last to answer to the call of science; 

 but its turn has at last arrived, and it is now ready to commence 

 receiving instructions which will cause it to make a rapid career. 

 Is it not sure of being sustained by all the sciences of nature? 



" There does not exist, as yet, a book which contains a complete 

 hist<jry of the discoveries of Germany in the natural sciences. 



" Glory to this industrious people ! Glory to old Germany, and 

 to every people who shall listen to, above all voices, that of sci- 

 ence and reason !" 



In the sterile district of the Eifel, and in other places, lupin 

 has been extensively used to manure the land. It is said to grow 

 well in barren land, and, being ploughed in before the seed is 

 ripe, excels as manure any other green manure. This plant 

 grows from two to three feet high, branches much, and usually 

 yields forty seeds for one. 



Notwithstanding we are so near to Germany, we (France) know 

 nothing of the late mighty improvements in Germany. 



The Agricultural Society of Kcenigsberg, as well as all of those 

 in Germany, does not pass for a learned one: it avoids all that, 

 for fear of intimidating the practical men, for the societies wish 

 to profit by the knowledge of all. All are admitted, rich or poor, 

 provided they are but honest. 



The agricultural reform in Germany in the last fifty years, has 

 principally operated on the meadows, or, to speak more generally, 

 on the production of forage; but it has every where produced 

 wonderful improvement in every department of agriculture and 

 In the arts, and yet more in temperance, industry and health. 



The coal region of Rhenane Prussia, is one of the greatest 

 known — abundant for generations to come. 



