230 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERrMENT STATIONS. 



Scliiemenz, director of the Miiggelsee Biological Station, which now 

 becomes a department of the Agricultural High School. 



An agricultural winter school was opened December 1, 1905, at 

 Seelow, under the direction of Doctor Weiss. 



The first agricultural continuation school in the Province of Bran- 

 denburg, Germany, was opened at Jessern November, 1905, and 

 continued until the end of March. Fourteen students were in 

 attendance, and the liigh grades which the}" maintained in the 

 exammations at the close of the term indicated that the experiment 

 was entirely successful. The subjects taught were chemistry, soils, 

 fertilizers, and feeding. It is planned to supplement the winter 

 courses by vSunday afternoon lectures during the summer months, 

 and to keep some oversight of the students in their practical work at 

 home. The school was opened at the request of sons of property 

 owners in Jessern and Goyatz, who also bore the cost of instruction. 



AUSTRIA. 



In Austria a people's liigh school, similar to the people's liigh 

 schools in Denmark, is maintained at Otterbach, near Schiirding, by 

 George Wieninger, president of the local agricultural society, who 

 meets all expenses of the institution except the salaries of nonresident 

 lecturers, which are paid by the State. The equipment of the school 

 includes a model farm, museum of agricultural, natural science, and 

 ethnographic specimens, a large auditorium, and a library. Free 

 lectures and demonstrations have been given since 1845, and since 

 1890 thirty-two of these have been given each jea,r. These lectures 

 and demonstrations are given on Sunday and are attended annuall}'' 

 by from 3,000 to 4,000 farmers and farmers' sons who can not attend 

 school. The object of the lectures is to assist in the general instruc- 

 tion of the rural population and to <lifl'use special knowledge concern- 

 ing modern agricultural methods. Those who attend 100 lectures 

 receive a diploma; those who attend 200, a silver medal, and those 

 who attend .SOO, a gold medal. Lectures are given on potatoes, 

 fertilizers, forestry, science, and agriculture, diseases of digestive 

 organs, the herd book in animal husbandry, sugar as food, etc. In 

 addition to these Sunday lectures short courses of from one to two 

 weeks are offered in feeding, distilling, bookkeeping, poultry culture, 

 dairying, and in normal work for teachers. 



A meadow culture school was opened at Eger >s\)vember 1, 1906, 

 which is temporarily in charge of Franz Lindner, director of the 

 agricultural school at Eger. 



HUNGARY. 



New regulations for the Royal Hungarian Horticultural School at 

 Budapest proN'idc that only a]")])]icants 20 years old or moio, wlio liave 



