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of the capital invest A: and that — c — s supply the 5 orig indicated. Some of the | the almost im oenetrable 
arming of Great Britai not practicable ermany. disadvanta ages under which this class of institutions | to arouse hir s to a se "d Ei — * 
On visiting Prof. Mitscherlich I was pleased to — chat must labour will 1 evident from the advantages | age, aw i 
the old man, who for 40 years has enjoyed a European enjoyed by those in connexion with the univ versities, them, and show him the necessity of giv his 
reputation for Bes purely scientific efforts, also hada As to the relative rekon rm oh * the two, 1 education. evags 
np i interest i iculture, and was well acquainted a wide difference of opinion in the — f different 
with its edi e details. Most particularly was he persons in Germany, who en e been — n the 
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inter in the source of ni en to plants, and mets we mm have occasion to refer to this CATTLE COOKER RY. 
the question of the assimilation of gaseous nitrogen by differenc There are a number of these schools 
—.— The large r of . — obta aine ed from already established i — — any the 
urce by leguminou 1 É l . ols, 
ty white te Lupins * a Bean) w = en growing upon — 3 these — the — bey ad 
aroun rlin without any manure, an — —€— M much more promine ntlv than in 
— he. unity a combined nitrogen — e either of t above eria Their object is to - "du ently parched both h stock irem — for the 
the soil at the same time, seemed to indicate that | — the children of the peasantry and others the stock for breeding, 
to assimilate the gaseous nitrogen | best methods o M em — al farming, the various improve- me — er — 3 ET 
of the Aem He did not feel that tl 1 ments that m roduc ro reign EN ls-ho-sniremmi -4 " 2 on m 
Boussingault thi lusive, but | and the best means of adopting them in the German — - M. Wer hoste 
he did not attach any value to the f George | sy f agriculture. T) ils 0 f — 
Ville in 3 d to — — form mamani, labour during the principal part of each | ^. — : 
estion uring mer, ai ith | 4 
education in the University of Berlin je tn fo ts infancy, | the nature of the work, during the winter. In some |j. Cooking of their food, or nn 
has examined Mr. Lawes's ment from a 
fair to dev itself into a distinct of the schools they are not € ted until they have | point of view U A: that h pam 
and well-established branch in the University. But been on some farm in the cou ry long enongh to learn sete à ú dei * d^ agers th zi N feodi 
— going further with this subject a few “general all tha t can be learned an E: ordinary Agricultural heep—for thi ist aii lies erir XE ing 
marks upon the character of German the country. W | Mechi, for this s experiment of his, quoted by Alderman 
institutions w ill not be wo of place. These institutions — ch day t of el inst — ve ti eto Loi mae pu ay that * — 
of three distinct kin tion in the principles involved in the labours they a are | the rans "onde i tbe ai ec ne 
Ist. ———— in “which the object is to teach ane v t This instruction must necessari iyt — e very 1 7 at ^ pem irme nd other organs of ‘the 
students and young people generally the facts and can neither serve as a mental training for — des em fr: L other il — great labora 
mp ii nor enable him to fully npe the value | attenti — t im "t der perd bes Votes little —— 
24. SCIENTIFICALLY INVESTIGA ATING ; the object of of agricultural — — But as such schools ure — deren on P ioe 
which is to develope the principles involved i in agricul- | often in connexion with the higher school to which ee present is not — 
by scientific inves m cg chemical, we have alluded, it is possible for pupil to y tock wi 
physical, and physiological investigation avail “himself of the _advanta ages of — in sue- Pay 8 fair et price f r their food. Against the 
14 Porviar.—E racing agricu — unions, the cessio He is much stricter rules than truth of this propositio 2 cannot allow Alderman 
object of which is to bring e aud the peasa the higher institution, and has much less Mechi, Mr. Lawes, or amy one else even to throw a 
try together to hear — o iculture, and thus — as to how he will employ his time, and is stone. But when we enter the market to buy well, how 
to infuse a spirit of progress ant 3 intelligence into the | o obliged to rform manual labour in each of a great | eW, animals do we find that will of pa for their 
* s ren nities. mber of departments, until he can do it skilfally and | fd? And when we visit Tiptree Hall, Rothamsted, 
ONAL INSTITUTIONS.—The end prop He 1 fo or his labour, or any other crack establishment, how far is cattle 
inotitations T to fi whi bei cookery and management from what it should be, 
quite distin be? 
ALLOW take e Mechi by the horn on 
subjec ot of —— hue stock." In the English 
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any pene have Points r^ which in the — laboratory, à source of ex me to be micht be, and we hope from what it soon will 
d A itio * one to the other is not abrupt. — as that of the other tuition, and not a source of | Progress is the master spirit of the age, and certainly 
e shall have occa: ege discu M part | no branch of husbandry affords greater scope for 
(2. "Educational departments in connection with of. ‘the qu uestion more fully in connexion with th cookery and the general ma $ 
universities in which — ultural f the professors — — in these | ment of live stock, so as to enable animals to turn their 
ally taught on the assumption that the student has institutions food to a better account than they now do. In this 
availed himself of attain advantages of the university, d. Ma nual labour Institutes 88 — deccm ent Mr. Horsfall and Mr. Thorley* are making 
in consequence of which r * be pan that he | Perhaps to the Anglo-Saxon mind the G rapid A in . € of improvement, and we 
already certain kind of hope t ample will receive more atten- 
of th 52 —— ithout a difference, yet " origin ‘and o Ern the |t experimentally than it S yet done; for those 
od enable v sete 0o presen nt differs in a marked degree from the last, who are thus taking a lesson of them find that animals 
of al all “the well-develo ducational ee although owing to — difficulties these distinc- which did not pay for their € on ‘the old system pay 
old institution, and iA bombis them — are falling away. These institutions originated | Well for it on the new. Ought not Alderman Mechi, 
epared asc hax enable din the philanthropic ideas of G: d Swiss | therefore, to season the food of his live stock wi 
i ment tô co who to bring about a more inti-| “Thorley’s cattle food conc W. 2 
himself more particularly to hi depart ly | mate — 2 ur ee s i; a 
conscious the student mil neve am The 
a knowledge of 
the moc sciences stantly with the igis de: ‘cal de tesi th „ moral, improper mismanagement? 
ersity course. "the religious, social, and scientific truths from his own! Alderman Mechi’s question, 2 
knowledge of t can be more lips while wr gne at manual labour, &c., with ded: which we fear is not m ell understood, 
thoroughly and more mieally obtained "than e shoul to them as a parent, and they and we dare say little less can "sad 
where special professors must bo appointed for — Should lire with bim in his house as children. It system of cooking food for live stock to which we have 
each one of them enon in pode to agriculture. | is needless to say that an idea or rather an ideal so fine | just referred. Both branches of the subject have long 
The n with t ersity is e has scarcely found a second person to the one — engaged our serious attention, scientifically amd prac- 
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are, as it 
y esanei ith such a diversity of circum- 
conse- ltural | st t enter ape M details of 
of HN Fo rgo deem more, than when his | schools inor importance that are devoted to Pepe either poy dt 80 as readers of the 
attention is m istracted by the ical affairs of —— of —— Mo as that of the | Agricultural Gazette azele the 1 benefit 1 - experience. 
more popular institutions The simpl icity of the arrange- | ¢ dai airy, the brewery, n — of flax, wool, &c., 2 ur object in taking the to 3 
men deut uitless opposition being yo . wheel 
connexion with every universi y, and thus offer a B. INVESTIGATION STA — object of these i is T Progress, and cit co-operation in "de ex- 
grat vari ety of 1 m stances E the | distinet from that of the last, in that they inves Her eg of this most im t 
“proceed wi h his studies in ped to the — of knowledge of what we are to subject so as to extend the benefits which it is calcu- 
tral dati 8 of to teac hin ing. The necessity ¢ of such lated to confer with the least possible delay. Land- 
Kar morality x^g 5 institutione will be ble them t t proper home- 
that he 7 dues „Such agricultural institutions | last letter —— —— undevi Tape of agri — |steads for va for unless stock pay for their 
science evoted entific experiments to|they will not pay for household accommodation. 
Bein as Göttingen, and Bonn, while profi - | develope our — of the dene that govern the | Tenants require this to enable them to invest capital in 
ships of en are — at several ode — which are manifested in the various pro- live stock more rofitably and largely than they now 
Universities, as Munich, Vienna, Brunn, Gratz, and |cesses ya agricultural practice. Such experiments | do; and the publie require this so as to procure a larger 
urt. require a great deal of time, patience, labour, and supply of butcher's meat and daily produce than they 
b. High Schools Sor Agricultural Instruction, the expense, 80 much so that it is difficult for a pur rely | now do from our provinces. Too pose progress, there- 
abject of gendo is to give a thorough ! that tl fore, directly or indirectly, is a national sin—nothing 
tice of * for which purpose | with the efforts expended to obtain them, and the con- less; but a helping hand the reverse— a national 
the Thatta i Joen n agricultural district, sequence is that most of these Nene i 80 | blessing. 
1 dun which all the v s | poorly presided for that they are incapa leaving | he first division of ‘ate a ornant gala 
processes e best iltural practice SEU. opes such results as the e wt ten os ect to which : wi 
tion. The student is at liberty to leurn how to pon Perse these food, may be resolved into the practical quesion-- mu 
in which evervthing is taught, and he gets a more |moral al and intellectual qualities to carry it ou 
of the im of ples, 
perform | they ere are of eene ts nia 
doing it himself, or Investigation Stations | in rnm " they animal which: dots: no gay" 
most of these | quite limited in their efforts for want of pecun Mur i Temi tao dent of nma cs 
u owever, previous to admittance, he must | Some of them are in connexio 80 Wiik ———— esta- per urine 
vein some way made himself familiar with agricul- Pme — eren are not. These are similar in 
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are arranged, as a collections of|apparatus requisite for one is n necessary other, that the waste the body is greater 
models of the different kinds of agricultural implements aint BY titin A teacher and the ee in the €— itshould be, and from the nauseous brenth, the 
machines used in different parts of the world. | same e person, is rendered better qualified both to dull yet troubled unsettled eye, the hard coat, the slow 
Political and national economy and agricultural | teach and to invest iga feeble trailing step, and want of muscular — 
Jurisprudence are also taught, but the ancient and C. Adn RAL SOCIETIES.—À great number of ( generally 
88 3 &c. are ‘not | these are fe long time Fem in uem their oat of order ; the nerves and — muscles u upon 
Studied, so thu urse is not complete p or the|object is partly social, partly practical, partly educa-| Those ac on healthy vitality so much depends com- 
finished education of a a highly intelligent agriculturist, | tional, and to some ved intellectual They serve to 3 
yet the qualifications necessar enter these institutions cultivate a more general intelligence, and to penetrate | leading 
