. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. the people live almost entirely on milk, flour, eggs, butter, cheese, and cream. To taste meat is an event in their lives, Although we hear much of the importance and growth of German manufactures in our own day, agriculture furnishes the support of the vast maiority of people. Its success is due largely to scientific . o ^ AgTiculture. method. Agricultural schools and model
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. the people live almost entirely on milk, flour, eggs, butter, cheese, and cream. To taste meat is an event in their lives, Although we hear much of the importance and growth of German manufactures in our own day, agriculture furnishes the support of the vast maiority of people. Its success is due largely to scientific . o ^ AgTiculture. method. Agricultural schools and model farms have been estabhshed throughout Germany. Among the chief manufactures are those of iron in Westphaha—Krupps works, the largest in the world, being situated at Essen: linen in Silesia and Westphalia, woollen in ],Ct 111*6 the same, and also in Saxony and Wurtemburg ; wooden toysand other goods in Bavaria. Of late years the foreign trade of Germanyhas largely increased, and with it her fleet of merchant the same time Germans have shown a tendency to colonisa-tion in Africa as well as the East; and German commercial travellershave been surpassing our own in ubiquity, zeal, and success. W ,i^
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