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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
continent as well as with new species and varieties supposed 
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to be adapted to its soils and climate. It is upon these plats 
that are tested questions based upon soils and their prepara¬ 
tion, manures and their application, meihods of cultivation, 
harvesting, etc.—questions of vital importance not only to the 
agriculture of Germany, but of the temperate latitudes every¬ 
where. ^ 
Connected with these experimental grounds there is like¬ 
wise an establishment which, together with them, is known as 
the experimental station. It is provided with chemical and 
other scientific apparatus necessary to all sorts of agricultural 
investigations, and is presided over by the chemical professor 
with a responsible subordinate, who resides therein and gives 
constant personal attention to the solutions of the problems 
attempted. 
There is also a well-planned botanical garden embracing 
several acres, in which are grown all sorts of plants possible 
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to the climate and soils of the location; a beet sugar factory, 
a brewery, a distillery, a starch factory; a vinegar factory, a 
malting and fruit drying establishment, and an agricultural 
implement and machine manufactory! The last named is 
sufficiently extensive to employ some forty workmen; the 
design being not simply to afford means of instruction to 
pupils in the principles and art of constructing implements for 
the uses of husbandry, but also to supply the markets of Ger¬ 
many with the best models. 
Considered as an institution of learning, the royal academy 
at Hohenheim consists of three quite distinct schools, to wit: 
1. The institute, having the character and rank of a profes¬ 
sional school of agriculture. 
2. The school of forestry. 
3. The school of practical farming. 
The institute and school of forestry were designed for 
advanced young men, able to understand purely scientific 
lectures. As a general rule, the pupils are either the sons of 
the gentry, fitting themselves for the general management of 
inherited estates, or ambitious young men from the middle 
