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the second, besserungen {amendemens), amendments, improvements in the 

 component parts of the soil, or mineral manures, such as calcareous and other 

 earths, ashes, salts, irrigation, and incineration. The principal abuse com- 

 plained of is the loss of the manure which ought to be collected in large towns; 

 for example, in Munich and Berlin. A second abuse consists in using putres- 

 cent manures, when they are in their first or putrid fermentation, or in their 

 last stage, or prolonged decomposition, instead of applying them in their 

 middle state, after the violent heat of the first fermentation has subsided ; 

 and a third abuse consists in appling dungs to corn crops, and on the sur- 

 face of grass lands, instead of applying it to root or green crops. This is 

 sound doctrine, and we have no doubt the work will be of essential use 

 in Bavaria, where a great spirit for agricultural improvement has lately been 

 excited. Baron d'Eichthal, who spent upwards of a year in this country, 

 at the expense of the Bavarian government, in the study of the different 

 systems of agriculture both in England and Scotland, returned in July last, 

 taking with him some workmen and a number of implements. He promised 

 to send us a communication on the agriculture of his country, of which this 

 notice will remind him. We are the more anxious to receive it, as the 

 Baron alleges that we have not done justice to Bavaria in the Historical 

 Notice of its Agriculture in our Encyclopaedia. The truth is, very little is 

 known in this country of the present state of Bavaria in any art. 



Wittmann mid Denglaez, Superintendants of the Domains of the Archduke 

 Charles of Austria : Landwirthschaftlich Hefte. Sheets of Agriculture, 

 principally intended for the Workpeople on the domains of the Archduke 

 Charles, and for the Pupils of the Agricultural Institute of Altenburg, in 

 Hungary. Vienna. 5 sheets. 1 rthlr. 12 gr. 



The object of this periodical is not a little remarkable, considering the 

 country in which it is produced. A great landed proprietor is seeking to 

 increase the value of his territority by a direct attempt to enlighten the 

 minds of its occupiers. In general, the same end is aimed at by performing 

 operations on the territory itself as examples. Either method will attain 

 the end ; but the first is unquestionably the most scientific, and likely to 

 be the most effectual and permanent. Both methods ought to be com- 

 bined, and are, in fact, combined on the estate of the Archduke Charles, 

 whose example is worthy of imitation on some large estates, or groups of 

 estates, in the remote parts of this country. Suppose the Marquess of Staf- 

 ford, and the adjoining proprietors in Sutherland andRosshire, were to print 

 a few useful treatises connected with the economy of country life, and cir- 

 culate them amongst their tenantry at cost price. Implements, both o. 

 rural labour and housekeeping, clothes, watches, seeds, &c, or, as our wor- 

 thy correspondent Cameron (p. 31.) proposes, snuff-boxes, &c. might also be 

 offered at cost price. The same thing might probably be attended with good 

 effects in Ireland. By interesting all classes in that country in a common sub- 

 ject, certain feelings of animosity might possibly be so far neutralised, as no 

 longer to prove a bar in the way of agricultural, moral, and domestic im- 

 provement. 



Walther, M. : De re Rustica, libri 3 : accedit Vocabularium Latino-Ger- 

 manicum, in usum studiosa? juventutis Germanicse. Gissen. 8vo. 



This work is highly spoken of in the Isis, a celebrated German periodical ; 

 and we should think an interlineary translation of it, in Hamilton's manner, 

 would be one of the best books by which a young gardener or farmer could 

 acquire the Latin language. 



Sturm, Professor : Ueber Racen Kreuzungen und Veredelungen, &c. On 

 the breeding, crossing, and perfecting of domestic Animals. Elberfield, 

 Pamph. 8vo. 2 pi. 



