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institution. The property was then let on lease at a grain rent of 
600 tons, or GOOO dollars (330^.) a-year : until the expiry of the 
lease this rent is to be laid out at interest, to accumulate for the 
purpose of providing a fund for erecting the necessary buildings ; 
after which the rent of that portion of the estate which is not re- 
quired for the purposes of the schyol-farm will form a permanent 
endowment. The domain is capable of great improvement, and, 
besides 200 tonner of arable land (240 acres), contains a large 
tract of rich ])asture land on the borders of the Fyrisa, the stream 
that passes Upsala and empties itself into the Macher a few miles 
below that city. A committee of the larger landed proprietors 
has been appointed to carry the intentions of the legislature into 
effect ; at the head of whom is Baron Rromer, the governor of the 
province, who has interested himself the most in securing the 
adoption of the measure. Besides the benefit which this institu- 
tion is likely to effect in introducing better modes of the culture 
among the numerous small proprietors who abound in this pro- 
vince, its proximity to Upsala will enable it to benefit the whole 
of Sweden. Upsala has been styled the Oxford of Sweden. To 
its university the sons of the nobility and of the large proprietors 
almost exclusively resort ; it cannot therefore be unattended with 
advantage to place under tlie eyes of such young men the example 
at once of a well-cultivated farm and the means of instruction as 
to the mode of equally improving their own possessions. This 
consideration no doubt had its weisht with the legislature in in- 
ducing them more largely to endow the Upsala school. 
We shall obtain a still more instructive insight both into the 
state of agriculture and into the working of the spirit of improve- 
ment in Sweden, if we glance slightly at some of the special 
exertions which have been made in the several provinces, as re- 
corded in the President's Report. 
In CJiristianstad and Malmd three beet-sugar manufactories 
had been established ; and on all the large properties horses and 
cattle had been introduced for improving the breeds. A royal 
medal had been given to Isaac Segerstrom for improving and 
planting drift lands. He prepared the land for this purpose by 
sowing the land first with Epilobium anr/nstifnlium (Rose-bay 
willow-herb), which throve well and helped to fasten the land. 
It is added, from experiments made at the Technological Institute, 
that this plant may be advantageously employed for tanning 
leather, so that, besides sowing to fix drift lands, it may be used 
economically in the arts. 
In Holland, at the expense of the provincial society, Mr. 
Stephens had visited the province for the purpose of giving advice 
as to the improvement of the local agriculture, and especially as 
