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682 . Retrofpect of German Literdture.—Techuslgy and Carimerce: 
ufeful. hints, but unfortunately inter- 
mixed with fingular opinions that have 
becn frequently refuted. ; 
Although. Germany has no Board of 
Agriculture to watch over whatever relates 
to agriculture, the want of fuch a public 
inftitution is amply fupplied by the pa- 
triotic zeal of many public fpirited indi- 
viduals and private agricultural focieties. 
The teanfactions of thefe focieties in 
Mecklenburg, Bohemia, Livonia, &c. 
continued to be publifhed. 
Of the writers giving accounts of new- 
invented implements of hufbandry, &c. 
we fhall enly notice Mr. METZER’s 
‘© Defcription of his new Threfhing Ma- 
chine and Saw Mill,’ which have been 
very highly fpoken of by thofe efteemed 
the bet judges of fuch productions of 
mechanical genius. 
With refpect the cultivation of fingle 
articles produced in gardens or in the 
open field, the culiure of tobacco was 
again taught by Curist and TRuNK; 
that of hops, by BReEITENBacH, 
FrirscuHe &c.; and that of fruit-trees, 
by DierRicu, SIicKLER, &c. Inftruc- 
tions for cultivating the vine with ad- 
vantage in the northern provinces or Ger- 
many, in Pruffia, &c. were given by 
MatTrTuscHKa.—CHRIST, DaALLINGER, 
and others, continued to recommend the 
ufe of the Cyperus efculentus L. inftead cf 
coffee, and gave rules for the beft mode 
of cultivating it; and to the many publi- 
cations on the extracting of fugar from 
the beet-root was added a ‘* Book of In- 
ftructions”’ relative to that fubject, by 
M. Acuarp, of the Berlin Academy of 
Sciences. It does not, however, appear, 
that, notwithbftanding all thefe patriotic 
endeavours, the Indian fugar and coffee 
will ever be wholly fupplanted by thefe 
fubfitutes. 
The increafing dearth of wood for fuel 
and o:ker purpoles, naturally continued 
to give birth to great numbers of publi- 
cations on the means of remedying this 
evil. -Meaisner, in his ‘* Ganze der 
Ho izfparkuntt,” fhews the moft advan- 
tageous manner of forming new planta- 
tions, and how to fave fuel both in brew- 
houtes, manuiactories, and the ftoves for 
warming apartments. Befides this, we 
fhail take notice of only a few other pub- 
lications on foreftry, by authors of efta- 
bliihed reputation. GATTERER conti- 
nued his ‘* Forftmagazin,”—Magazine 
for Foretters ; and LawLop, befides his 
‘< Inftructive Letters of a Forcfter travel- 
ling in Germany,”” proceeds to edit, in 
ecnjunction with Han TMaNN, ‘* Die Zeit- 
fchrift fur Forftw."— or, Journal for Fos 
refters —DEZEL, SPRZETH, and WatL-~ 
THER, publifhed continuations of theié 
«© Courfes of Foreftry;°? and Laurop 
furnifhed a new one.—ReITER, Member 
of the Superintending Board of Forefts m 
Wirtemberg, gave, in conjunction with 
ABEL, engyaver to the Duke, no lefs 
beautiful than faithful plates and defcrip. 
tions of fuch foreft-trees as are feldom found 
growing wild in the woods of Germany, 
and of fome that have already been na- 
turalized. This werk is intended as a 
continuation of the delineations of a hun- 
dred indigenal German foreft-trees. 
The proper management of foreft-trees, 
and the knowledge neceflary for the {port 
man and the gamekeeper are taught to- 
gether in Kopier’s * Nothigte Vor- 
kenntniffe der Forft und Jagdwiffenfchaf: ;”” 
and in GATTERER and LEONARDI’s 
«© Magazines for Foreftry and Hunting.”* 
JoxiscH wrote -a jarge work on fiiheries 
and fith-ponds, including the natural hif- 
tory of fifhes. 
Of the ufeful domeftic animals, the 
horfe again particularly became an objeét 
of authorial induftry. Befides the fixth 
year of TENNEKER’s Pocket Bock for 
Horfemen and his Journal for Horfe- 
breeders, there came out a ** Zeit{chrifet 
fur Denkende Reiter’’—a Journal for con- 
fiderate Horfemen. Horrman taught 
the ‘Art of prolonging the Pericd of 
the Life and Serviceablenefs of the 
Horfe,’? Boos and LEONHARDI wrote 
on the breeding of fheep, PRESCHER on 
rabbit-warrens; and fome anonymous au- 
thors on the rearing of fowls and finging-: 
birds; nay, books of inftruétion even 
on the breeding of cats and dogs were 
publifhed. 
Several works likewife made their ap- 
pearance on the veterinary art, on the 
management of hees, and on cookery, 
and other parts of domeftic economy. 
TECHNOLOGY AND COMMERCE. 
To the many jourfials in which thefe 
two departments of ufeful knowledge are 
conjointly treated of, was now added the 
«© Gewerbs und Handluogs Zeitung,” 
publifhed at Breflau; and to the techno- 
logical journals, HotFman’s ‘ Allge- 
meine Annalen der Gewerbkunde”—Ge- 
neral Annals of Technology; Jucn’s 
«¢ Allgemeines Journal der Technologie,” 
anda * Sammlung gemeinnutziger Ma- 
{chinen, &c.”’—or, CoileGtion of generally 
ufeful and eafily executed Machines for 
Economitis, Architeéts, &c.; Weaelssk 
publifhes a general “‘ Ockonomifche Tech- 
nologie’’—Economical Dechnology, which | 
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