The German Emperor attended the jubilee celebrations of the German
Agricultural Society on Monday, and read a short address of welcome and congratulation. The Emperor, who is described as looking very well and giving every sign of good spirits, referred with well-founded satisfaction to the work of the Society. They had, he observed, succeeded admirably in adopting all the advances in science, botany, chemistry, the breeding of animals, and industry, and had thus increased the efficiency of German agriculture and raised the value of Germany's soil. He concluded by expressing the wish that the agricultural population might "continue to hold its own as the core of the people, trustworthy in all circum- stances, to the advantage and welfare of the Fatherland." The Times correspondent reminds us that the Society traces its origin to England, the aim of the founder, Max Eyth, who began his career with a Yorkshire training in engineering, being to create a counterpart to our Royal Agricultural Society.
