Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-09-29

.cluding the culture Of new plants and varie-
ties, the results derived from different meth
DDS in the culture of crops and in FEEDING
the stock--all conducted with the double
object Of advancing scientific truth and Of
actual practice. They have also
microscopes, a library collections, and mod
els.
/ At Eldena in New Citerior Pomerania,
out OF 1850 acres, 1900 are devoted TO the
li;lrn proper: 3l4 to meadows; 40 in pas
ture: 3 IN gardens: hays; under water
! for ponds, and two or three III nurseries,
100000 bricks and tiles and 100000 drain
ling tiles are annually PRODUCED: also 1900
CIT. Of malt Is brewed, and what would be
thought rather odd IN this country there is
a distillery for the instruction Of the pupils.
There is a resident director, teacher Of
Agriculture, and the strucure Of vegetables,
general farm management and accountkeep-
ling, with the history Of agriculture a teach
er Of chemistry, physics, the structure Of
the soil and technology: and the admins
TRAITOR Of the farm who instructs in practi-
zeal husbandry and in the associate arts, in.
Gliding horticulture the care and keeping
Of sheep and cattle, the culture Of meadow
and farm crops. There Is also d teacher Of
hotany zoology and the physiology ofplants,
an assistant teacher in veterinary science,
the physiology Of animals and the breed
ing Of horses. Another in the ease and
cultivation Of wood lands third in archi-
lecture: a fourth in mathematics and sur,
veying, and a fifth Oh Law as connected
with Agriculture. Another Of these acad-
eniies possesses more than four thousand
acres and includes two estates: one called
Proskaw, and the other Shimnitz, IN Upper
Sile8ia. At the academy of Porpelsoorf,
seventeen acres are employed as a botani-
cal garden and vineyard. 1t possesses the
most fertile and friable soil and the fine
climate Of tie southof Germany. Among
Is studies Is the culture of tobacco, the care
If silk worms and bees, and theaits Of hun
ting and management of fisheries. At an
other that Of Waldau, near Konigsbery,the
domain covers 2000 acres, and attention is
lpaid principally to the agriculture ofnorth-
Tern Germany and the keeping Of sheep
Then come what are termed private agri-
cultural schools, in number about twenty
for the purpose of exercising the young
! TeItons in the best ways of performing
til il labofs and to show them also zgitV one
way il better thap another to lead them to
think. Usually the State contracts with
! THE proprietor for the instruction Of students
during as long period as ten years ane
lso appoints one or more officials in tht
carrying on the school II, addition K
these there is a school at Treves for the cul
lture Of meadows, aud another at Eichsfeld
for flax dressing. At Frankenield, large
sheep establishment where the principal
lobject is to preserve pure raee,aud through
out the provinces similar institutions are
lconstantly springing up, and receiye the
aid of the government.
After this long recital we cannot eisei
upon an account Of Whist is done, and now
doing in the other governments Of Europe
TO foster and promote this most honorable
pursuit.
We cannot leave the subject however
without adverting to species Of culture,
which must bear very yitaIIy upon our in
terests as population advances towards the
ltreeless plains Of the west.
When Russia had much less population
lin 1919, it was feaad necessary to pass
laws for the preservation ofgrowing timber
lalthough nearly all the country north o.
latitude co. was originally almost an un-
lbrosen forest: much Of it is still so; (trees
lgIewr in Europe upto Lat. 700.
IN 1850 laws were passed and means IN
Istituted for cultivating forests. As much
4of the woodland belonged to the govern
imeat, the results Of the system were found
so profitable that it was gradually enlarged
Iin its plan and consequent Importance, I'M
ltil it became one Of the most valuable
foranehcs of government economy. Large
schools were founded in which every thing
relating to the subject is taught, such as
surveying, botany, chemistry, metaorology
ana MANY Nor branches. 1t was found
IN time that the increase in productiyeness
covered all expenses Of enlarging the plan.
The Importance Of this plan in 1850 may
be indged by these facts, namely: 241 mix
lions Of acres Of woodland lad been survey
i ed, inyentoried and their value estimated
or an area extending over 200 miles in both
length and breadth. 10 million acres had
been IN addition surveyed only: Al million
put i,,.ler strict protection which adds an
lother surface IF 500 By 800 miles, Of the
domain Of large sovereign State Five
and a quarter million Of trees had been
planted, two thousand pounds Of tree seed
8sown: the value of timber eayel from fires
4 b. careful surveillance was estimated at oy-
ler 100000, and that amount had been
Host T.eyious'y in single seasons. The an
Of casing trees to grow upon the woodless
lsfeppes had been completely cstabliahed.--
/ In the ahisling sands ofthc deserts Of Ales-
lche-d ove9, 1850 acres had been coayerted
10 thav'nu forest, supporting nearly s.,
100000 Of trees. Other large tracts arc
being gradually planted to provide for 4
succession of crops in future. Hence, a
agriculture is an art and business as well as
i science, its spread is confined to no geo
graphical bounds, and can b. restrained o.
restricted by no governmental policy, aud
as with all the Improvements Of the age i
gradually and inevitably reashes ourshores,
lin the older and Weather states we prob
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