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cost of living and instruction is only between 30Z. and 40/. 
per annum, inclusive of everything. 
Great benefits are claimed by Professor Kuhn, the director, 
for the agriculture of the Province of Saxony, from the influence 
of the teaching of this school. He affirms that he himself can 
bear witness to the establishment in the district of " a more 
rational rotation of crops, a more liberal manuring of the land, 
and a better cultivation of the soil, especially where sugar-beet 
is grown." And, moreover, he asserts that some of the best 
cattle-breeders in Germany owe their success to the instruction 
which they received at Halle. As regards economy of labour, 
he points out also that while the more " intensive " cultivation 
of the land, especially in sugar-beet districts, has necessarily led 
to the employment of more manual labour, at the same time the 
use of the steam plough and other improved means of cultiva- 
tion have diminished the number of horses which it was 
formerly necessary to employ on a specific acreage. 
Gottingcyi. — The distinctive feature of the next German 
Agricultural Institute mentioned b_y Mr. Jenkins, namely that 
of the Royal University of Gottingen, consists in an arrange- 
ment made by the directors with the tenant of a farm of 
between 1600 and 1700 acres for the privilege of instruction of 
students upon it from time to time. The tenant of the farm 
acts as demonstrator when required. Though this is a distinct 
advance upon the method of teaching employed at Berlin and 
Halle, yet it would seem that even in this case such a method 
does not compare favourably with that of our own Royal Agri- 
cultural College at Cirencester, for at Gottingen only the results 
of the processes of cultivation, manuring, &c., are shown, and 
not the best means of performing tlie various acts of husbandry. 
The experiments carried out at Gottingen seem elaborate and 
of considerable importance. " The results obtained are published 
from time to time in the 'Journal fiir Landwirthschaft,' as 
well as in Jenssen's ' Jahresbericht.' One apparatus alone for 
collecting and analysing the air breathed by, and the other 
excreta of, two sheep with a view to determine the manner in 
which their food is utilised or wasted, cost about a thousand 
pounds, exclusive of the steam-engine, which is an adjunct to it." 
Holienheim. — In Mr. Jenkins's opinion, however, the most 
perfect embodiment in Germany of the combination of practice 
with science is to be found at the Agricultural Academy of 
Hohenheim, in Wiirtemberg, only about 7 miles from Stutt- 
gard. To this Institution Mr. Jenkins awards the high praise 
of describing it as almost the perfection of an establishment for 
higher agricultural education. The Hohenheim Academy is 
very extensive. The building itself was formerly a ducal 
