84 EDUCATION IN DAIRY FARMING, AND 



and institutes and the numerous societies, most of which take 

 the deepest practical interest in education. These societies are 

 — the Dairy Association, the East Prussian Dairy Society, the 

 Danzig Cattle-Breeding and Dairy Society, the Glatz Dairy 

 Society, the Dairy Society of Posen, the Schleswig-Holstein 

 Dairy Society, the Berlin Dairy Association, the Dairy Farmers' 

 Society of Berlin, the Berlin Cheesemakers' Society, the Wur- 

 temburg Dairy Society, and several others. 



We have received letters and printed details in, if possible, 

 too great numbers from many of the German schools and 

 stations, and from these we have selected those of the greatest 

 importance, in order to show the systems adopted. In many 

 cases details of the Government grants made are given, but up 

 to the time of concluding this report particulars which have 

 been promised by the officials of the agricultural departments 

 at Berlin, Dresden, Carlsruhe, and Munich have not arrived. 

 This is the only essential information which is incomplete. 

 From the very many letters which we have received from direc- 

 tors and others connected \vith the schools, we have no hesi- 

 tation in believing that the attendance of pupils is almost 

 invariably great, especially during the winter session, and the 

 benefits which they derive are very considerable. The farmer 

 is able to control a business the better from his greater acquaint- 

 ance with its details ; the farmer's daughter is fitted to take 

 charge of the house and dairy of her future husband, with greater 

 economy on the one hand and profit on the other ; while the 

 remaining classes are fitted to commence life as teachers, factory 

 hands, or dairymaids. 



According to the statistics of 1886, kindly furnished by the 

 Minister of Agriculture of the Imperial Government at Berlin, 

 there appeared to be eleven royal agricultural colleges, sixteen 

 agricultural schools (Landwirthschaftschulen), thirty-two lower 

 agricultural schools (Ackerbauschulen), and forty-five winter 

 agricultural schools, in addition to forty-three special schools and 

 courses of instruction, in addition to many others in Saxony, 

 Bavaria, Wurtemburg, and Baden, which appear only in the 

 statistics of those Governments. Dairying is taught in some 

 form at the great majority of these institutions, almost all of 

 which receive State grants, thus : — The total Government grants 

 to the colleges, as we have extracted them, amount to £36,124, 

 or over £3000 each, Berlin absorbing £10,000 for the Royal 

 High School, and £5000 for the practical course in connection 

 with it ; whereas Kiel, with its important dairy experiment 

 station, receives only a few hundreds. The agricultural schools 

 receive £12,750, or about £800 each, exclusive of grants from 

 other sources ; whereas the lower schools receive £6850, or about 

 £210 each, in addition to other grants in many cases. The 



