Tlioro is also tlu^ specialist, who conducts a niovablo school which is 

 located ill a coinimuilty for two or throe weeks and tlicn is transferred 

 to another center where a similar class is formed and the instruction 

 repeated. Then there is the winter school, located in a rural com- 

 nuinitv and continuino- for several months, to which only adults are 

 admitted. There are also agricultural hii^h schools which only farm- 

 ing people who have had previous practical experience of at least one 

 year upon a farm and consideral)le preliminary education can enter. 



Thesvstemof support for the itinerant schools and for the lecturers 

 is also worthy of careful study, as are also the methods adopted for 

 securing the cooperation of local communities in the work of institute 

 instruction. There are likewise the demonstration farms and fields 

 organized by a central board having charge of the institute system of 

 instruction, over which the itinerant institute teacher is placed, and 

 whii-h are used for instruction purposes in connection with the insti- 

 tute work in the several communities. Attention is specially called 

 to the interest manifested and the part taken by the higher institutions 

 of learning, especially by the universities and agricultural colleges, 

 in itinerant instruction. 



There is also the teaching of agriculture in the common schools 

 made compulsory in most countries, and accompanied b}^ the use of 

 school gardens and experiment grounds for purposes of practical train- 

 ing and demonstration. Last of all, but by no means the least sug- 

 gestive, there is the use of the monthly pul)lication, edited and issued 

 by the State as an official medium for disseminating agricultural 

 information, free of cost, among the members of the farmers' institute 

 societies of the country, keeping them informed with respect to the 

 work of the various societies in their own as well as in other States. 



AUSTRIA. 



The distinguishing features of the farmers' institute system of Aus- 

 tria are briefly stated by the Austrian minister of agriculture in the 

 following communication : 



The establishment of itinerant agricultural instruction in Austria is not very recent 

 and the system in operation is regarded as an important factor in the professional 

 education of the agricultural population above school age and is of especial value in 

 those parts of the country not provided with agricultural schools. 



This instruction is generally given by professional itinerant teachers of agriculture, 

 appointed by the State, by the provincial administrations, or by the principal agri- 

 cultural corporations in the different dependencies and provinces, but experts in the 

 different lines of work closely connected with agriculture and agricultural pursuits 

 are also employed for this purpose. The lectures are usually delivered at the meet- 

 ings of agricultural societies, at agricultural expositions, stock shows, etc. 



The professional itinerant teachers receive a fixed remuneration for their services, 

 including the salary and a lump sum for travelingexpeuses, amounting annually to from 

 $720 to $960. The teachers appointed Ijy the State are paid from the State treasury, 



