REPORT OF MR. FRANCIS H. APPLETON.

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AGRICULTURAL OBSERVATIONS IN EUROPE, 1873.

BY FRANCIS H. APPLETON, A. M.

Group II.

I

Part I. — Agriculture.

I left home the 26th of last March, to pass six months travelling in such parts of Europe as my inclination turned me to, but with the previous determination to jiass two months in Vienna to carefully examine the Exposition. It was my intention to familiarize myself with the agricultural customs of those foreign countries through which I passed, especially the Austrian Empire, England, and Scotland. As I also remained a couple of months in the two last-named countries, where I kept very constantly on the move, I was enabled to examine not only very many of their most mag­nificent estates, but also a number of their noted farms, two of their best agriculture shows, the Royal Agricultural Col­lege, and to acquaint myself with their modes of operating their estates and farms.

Should I restrict myself to simply reporting the result of my observations at Vienna, I should be confining myself too narrowly, as the results of my observations in a particular case there might have been modified by what I afterwards saw in England, or elsewhere, so that in this article I can- not confine myself to the Exposition at Vienna.

It will not be my object now to restrict myself to opinions I may myself have formed, and present nothing but my own ideas, and thus limit the field for thought. On the con­trary, I shall try to picture that part of the agricultural dis­play that seems to me to relate especially to the interests of our agricultural community, advancing my own advice only where I feel it to be what we can adopt beneficially,