74 EDUCATION IN DAIRY FAEMING, AND 



gardening ; and the girls are required to work in the house, stall, 

 field, and garden in regular order. In addition to the theory of 

 dairying, gardening, and cattle management, they are taught to 

 read, write, and cipher. The theoretical teaching extends over 

 eighteen hours weekly, two hours each being given to dairying, 

 stock-breeding, arithmetic, and writing ; four hours to house- 

 keeping, and one hour each to morals, book-keeping, gardening, 

 and one or two other subjects. There are also two courses, one 

 of which is called the house-course, and the other the stall- 

 course. The latter is given as follows in the prospectus of the 

 school : — 



Winter. 



Feedinj];, cleaning, and milking the cattle, weighing and test- 

 ing the milk, feeding the calves and pigs ; the poultry-house. 



Work in the cow-house and food-room. 



Theoretical instruction. 



Work in the milk-room. 



Feeding and milking the cows, testing the milk ; feeding the 

 calves, swine, and poultry. 



Work in the cow-house. 



Theoretical instruction. 



Work in the cheese-room. 



Feeding and milking the cows, testing the milk ; feeding the 

 calves and pigs. 



Suj)per ; report, writing the day's work, repetition, reading. 



Sumvver. 



Same as in winter. 



Theoretical instruction. 



Work in dairy and garden. 



Same as in winter. 



Work in cow-house and food-room. 



Work in the dairy or gardening. 



Continuance of necessary work. 

 7" „ 8 Feeding, cleaning, and milking the cows, testing milk ; feeding 



calves, pigs, and f)oultry. 

 8 „ 9 Same as in winter. 



The Dairy School of Pichlern-Marienhof. — This important 

 school, which is near Klagenfurt, was founded in 1883 by the 

 Agricultural Society of Karntner, and is intended for the in- 

 struction of females between the ages of sixteen and thirty-five 

 3^ears. The course of instruction lasts one 3'ear, from the 1st 

 October. The buildings were provided by the Count Franz von 

 Evlmann, and the yearly cost, over and above the receipts, 

 amounting to from £100 to £120, is provided by the State, the 

 Agricultural Society, and the authorities of Klagenfurt. Twenty- 

 three cows are kept in connection with the school, and the in- 

 struction includes breeding and management of cattle, pigs, and 

 poultry ; dairy work, gardening, and housekeeping. The teachers 

 include a housekeeper, a dairy instructor, and a gardener ; while 

 the director of the Agricultural Society of Klagenfurt gives 



