856 
ng | upon the absorptive properties of wi. With all — a sighted practice to feed it 
and do embrace the advantage here — of getting affords these 8, 1 5 eg ha e In this Peg it ought to com daredy Db. by 
„which th highly lauded by s e parties in | This is an instance Me ess in angi, 
stances of yo outh 3 n fom obtaining. Eel m will hardly be a accepted as satisfactory by | Every ithe e who Le. ER T 
Foreigners who, like myself, are travelling. to see the | 
knows 
e 
zriculture of the coun itey; may leave Tharand with thanks for dii fa ting. ani imals ; are pro beh. 
dcm course — instruction for ra term, and cK 5 At which its educational fione Mh was animals walt 2 25 i DE 
ee ak a à its b over explained to me, and proceed to Leipsic an irect profit as fatting ones 
It is fu ber yea that the stu enia ne; MR — 
ating oen Lord" 1 - that. dnos the event of be rth IMPORTATIONS : JANUARY TO AUGUST, 1859. 
they have behaved themselves oea and that in Tue following is an extract from the oficial Pétri vss 
case of minors the consent of parents or guardians be ENTERED ron Hone | 
obtained for entering the academ IMPORTATIONS. 5 
It is further strongly reco: hat agricultural orar r x 
students, before coming to the institution, Mey oN | 1354. 1859. 1868. | 1809. 
een so long upon a far s to l come fami : t — — SA 
5 dinary practical details of the latter, OF | Animals live | 7, r 
which at Met à year is requisite. And Lit isr uired | | | | Oxen, Bulls and and Cows .. number is — Herm ires € 
testi t t t aive © 66,302 131,90 m Uu 
are capable of understanding ihe different courses of | Sheep end lem 5457 4'8 E 
| Bone: ae not, um 54,107 2,099 = ests favi 
The course of in instruction extends through two years, * — —Wheat "herr “To 3,120,216 | 2,885,245 || 3,120,216 2,885,245 
and en desirable it may b Barle I 1,079,228 981,049 1,079,928 981,049 
The students who graduate, or who wish to enter the Oats M ut : z 1,032,100 | 1,001,756 ^ 032,100 1,001,750 
service of t the State, must, make the two ans course, Peas -- Hey Dp Um, —— — rise ES 
m 1,040,582 652,704 1,040,582 652,704 
f State Wheatmeal oe Totali vwis| 3,030,855 | 2,741,257 | 3,039,555 | 2,741,257 
— ot the — of the erre | Indian Corn — — . a 78 
The subjects taught embrace mathe de E s | Gan - - — AIET 61423 |. Free isa 
prs tiens Unies oed RUE E i eee tl 13,582 1,535 
f buildin 3 TN , 3 Hop 4 k 1,357 : „582 ; 
ton fedi ails, gto botany aun Bn tm aena ie os 
and social economy [m 5 Beate, Bacon and Hams M a "165,847 179516 | 
This list is far too formida two x rs’ , Beef, PUES 131,606 „ 
thing like thoroughness is to be attained in any Pork salt: 5 66,028 119,529 
s of habe? acketicee bat th the object of the course is Buiter RG — n a ie — — ee n 
simply to treat of their more direct relations to sylvi- pee dumis petit number 101, KA 5 115, 888 800 | | 102, enn 800 | ns — 600 p 
fic rieulture, the health and disease Sg. Tt S. 75 8. 174, 029 264,867 | 
culture, scientific ag » Saltpetre — .. 
of agricultural animals, and the jurisprudence of : Cubic Nitre NS » = — 848,247 
eeds :- over oo ” , 
agriculture. Flaxseed and à Linseed " rs. "n e 616,011 
Th hi ons | | Rape.. 8 249,733 
in Germany, b: 8 of course * gs ias | Wool E zh dede T, sio 11 88,668,386 | 
reco} — Y the students, yet so detailed na the Alpacca i | 6,006 | 1,980,271 l| fe Sass BUT F 
t if the stude n re only, for M, : 
vil de eoabied do yet the subject entire, and much | MANURE MAKING AND PROFITS ON STOCK. | plough in at onos Jor E and Se 
. more vam onde 98 E ow» TR tails and oe <4 is the season for taking up the subject of will soon decompose ihe wil 
— uch less time than he . e making and profits on stock.” The former n s, no nee compounds will be w 
objectionable feature th that Saali attaches itself |i is 3 completed, or ought to be, between Michael - Maie ud made should in o: 
to ‘this system of instruction, but which does mas and Lady Day; and we have now before our eyes | c" half its stimulating and fertilis 
sarily weak to it GA yet it runs through the entire | = the products, or we can fairly estimate the growing „ 
German m), is that there is A a su = ede we shall have to dispose of during the next Tha other method isto? 
ciently distinct - — prm 2: — a m te have — eee 
progres the student making, and * s Min the winter's su or making mea 
ici he hears, So great idis difficulty oiii Will have been UR PR iese productions rei ome ist ete 
to be bat 1 ad. known numerous instances of|are so variable in quantity and quality on different ankles: heaping iE ER 
uder examine one pations that no rules can — — or fac Now that. portable...steam-thteshing 1 
— or to get a private Popes to do it, e the | given, for certain guidance. Every farmer must make easily come-at- ‘able th 5 cost D 
ant of sega xamin-|his own calculations, as to cost of. method i in feeding | , z 
Me system is felt and expressed * N of | what he has got or can get. Straw, hay, oil-cake, some doing * P 
German pes The high koeten which the student | corn, Turnips, and Mangel are the resources we have (irte 
L po^ in society, and the — S uen 2 i a *. — a- | to dotes — meat, or manure, or FUE into both. . 
ions between his professor and himse traw is the — in poin regar re. 
compensates for this loss; but still it is felt payer * Vols of the extraneous — and fertilisers that —— as T thresh them 
the university an elt here. | can be found at anyi like a tempting price during PI danget Busi 
A book — A well- ma pages gives g general gms bos next twelve months will not amount to a tenth thé — 
of the se subjects which are taught; we need n ot | part of the value of the straw in hand for restoring n. if t. 
E e ‘dwell upon it, but dan who line an | exh roducing healthy plants. Science — 
intercs; in the subject and who do not read Germ man | has not as — discovered —— that will — by day, the latter at night 
will find it in the work we propose to publish upon the | — aterials for straw. If the st w of. this ntry had T — : This plan prepares them 
agricultural schools n Germany. ring the lat 10 or 20 y i and “eaten | on quarters: The stiee ci eon 
teme e 3 e e p — mod and for med into * and muscle, and — 5 |a day, — ering with fresh w before. 
n is fer» epen - throw "doni ; 
the MT and the ar of these — that it —— dr our domesticated crops — | — Rein — — d, blad all. 
— > pos iiia ` = ae that is made of | would hav . — — than they now are. No nenten, and that little helps to ot the Hot 
EIN is res e institution at Thara 1 afford to have its straw fed d it may not be so po 
Occupies a first-class position. For sylvieulture and the | and carried off ret Te may be necessary, and more - — an Sem ba it tal process of u. 
diei it t has an Mee forest, where all the processes | profitable altogether, to — some at times to prevent with it deen 
of bd e em] and growing trees and clearing forests, | aci from injuring the digestion of animals, but vetns of the living iiile [? 
the — mee most farms will be proportionately | SY nod b 
ture lessened in sustaining and — food. The more — nd th 
| stimulating fertilisers we can get, the more straw One eris 
we require. 
Straw as manure, — poem a of what i p — — 
or which will give — . contain, is of a q — 
T stimulan 
help—a waggon-l 
to e nts thet have j a ste g much 
food, ve 
xltural. y t wholly with well-otted | den or the t 
lev : | oxy pred 
has been able to — r the im ger than e The — of the homestead 25 
in an instituti this kind, | 
: used. It is a carbonaceous subs b: 
$ * " 0 the organic a acid "that would otherwise k — p» — 
the 391 he ch not only all — n eias plants. If, therefor an increase of cattle, and with en 
investigations into guentons in arg but for extensive plants be produced und Let ualities improved by | Tins 
investigations into questions in agricultural chemistry Y 2 bé: 3 
án 1 
ving them straw for fe i . | If there be su 
: vegetable physiology ; the latter — is — dis; gue of it in — . The constituents a as been simply 
entrusted to the care of a special investi igato 5 Dr. — it come ck to us in — and better form "i c ie Mang! 
W T re to — me a nu of | heavier green Clover, Tares, and Rye, and big ger n Rye-g M^ 
vege le growth in wi wie ies — — Toe. Turnips, and these of a better quality too. "ioo Et a & amd throa 
ich he was engaged. He a As this is so, if a farm h i t the present an di 
eat number and va - plants growing in clear | Turni d * 0 Partial failure nses must be cut down in d 
Water in glass vessels so as to exhibit all — roots and wou th. hé has 1580 dd he fs left with 1 | the weekly expenses will overlap. 
rootlets. “A stalk of an he has food for, he had better quietly | —— — 
dius VR Indian Corn held in a wooden | reduce the number of his store cattle than to large ME ee 
nm sd -- vater eet high, | consume his straw in hand, for if he were to do 
water of co hea ealthy as if in the best soil. The | with a to maintain his u al quantity of animals 
matter for ie growth the pant "This — oper oor m bis md D —— — 3 
is fa produce animal food i | it state of Trish 
— plants to tak keu substances f from solutions will tend, e — e in nae straw "holds s good in a country dist riet of the county ye 
tific agriculturists n question some rer 1 soil —— * large proportions of t on o d maa fem —— 
views ews of Liebi od 3 mij i or con — os — oni ions mei —— — 4 — "n 
re SA ale vegetable nutrition, substances, and the re di 2 to fall and gn. E 9 now ie dins 
of Way rot instead of mat iir. — — very narrow an 
