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respectively, at Cortemarck, Heule, and Wareiiiine. There are also 

 traveling dairy schools for women ; and in connection with the schools 

 at Heverle and Overyssche, schools of cheese making. 



(4) Popular instruction, including jinmary agricultural and horti- 

 cultural trade schools (ten of which are agricultural and nme horti- 

 cultural departments of other schools), and popular instruction for 

 adults (itinerant instruction consisting of from fifteen to thirty lec- 

 tures on agriculture, horseshoeing, apiculture, and other special sub- 

 jects). 



There are also presented the statistics of agricultural education, 

 the service of agronomes (graduates of agricidtural colleges engaged 

 in extension work for the State), and accounts of institutions con- 

 nected with agricultural educational institutions, such as botanic 

 gardens, chemical and bacteriological institutes, analytical laborato- 

 ries, experiment stations, and readmg circles. 



A professional sugar school was opened at St. Ghislam, Belgium, 

 May 1, 1906, with 12 students in attendance. The course of study 

 mcludes the following subjects: Physics and general chemistry; ana- 

 lytical and applied chemistry; sugar technology, sugar chemistry, 

 and sugar legislation; general mechanics and industrial electricity; 

 mathematics; sugar accounts; geometrical drawing, industrial draw- 

 ing, and industrial economy. The course covers two years and leads 

 to a diploma. 



DENMARK. 



The Danish school for the training and instructing of renters and 

 laborers of both sexes, established near Ringsted in 1903, has been 

 attended by 375 pupils in long courses and 800 pupils in short courses. 

 The pupils are chiefly girls and farm hands from 20 to 25 years of age, 

 who attend from five months to a year, and older persons who attend 

 the short courses of eleven days. The land for the school (54^ acres) 

 was donated by the town of Ringsted. The department of agricul- 

 ture granted a loan of $16,170 to aid in starting the school. 



The report of the trip of the Scottish commission on agriculture to 

 Denmark, June 19-30, 1904, devotes about 14 pages to education, 

 including a brief description of the following features of the Danish 

 system of schools: (1) The common school system; and (2) the people's 

 high schools, private institutions, some of which were established as 

 early as 1845, now number 78, and are attended by about 6,000 young 

 people of both sexes between 18 and 25 years of age. From the first 

 these schools gave instruction in land surveying, agricultural chem- 

 istry, and other sciences underlying the practice of agriculture; but 

 when agriculture developed and increased in importance this ])rovi- 

 sion ])r()ved inndequate, and hence arosc^ a necessity for the cstablisli- 

 ment of purely agricultural schools. 



