300 



The ordinary expenditures for agricultural objects by the Prussian 

 state, exclusive of cost of administration, salaries, and construction of 

 buildings, has been for the following imrposes alone : 



For general scientific pur- 



Asi'icultural academies*. . 

 Otbei' agricultural institu- 

 tions.* 



Special purposes 



Prenunms, (horse-raising) 



Total 



Estimates. 



Thaler. 

 45, 495 



53, 809 



6,299 

 23, 060 



128, 663 



Thaler. 

 41, 257 



55, 539 



1864. 



Thaler. 

 43, 867 



32, 905 



22, 340 



6, 049 5, 799 

 24, 200 21, 200 



127,045 129,111 



Thaler. 

 44, 162 



34, 349 



22, 639 



5,799 

 23, 615 



130, 564 



Thaler. 



44, 277 



34, 051 

 20, 358 



5,799 

 22, 131 



1868. 



Thaler. Thaler. Thaler. 

 42,493 92,225 1103,619 



1869. 



39, 261 



18, 460 



8,171 

 30, 010 



45, 408 60, 603 

 35, 903 40, 343 



15, OOfi 

 01, 143 



126,616 138,401 249,685 286,498 406,241 



Thaler. 

 150, 180 



69, 314 

 56,200 



17,329 ' 23,309 

 64,604 I 102,238 



According to the report on the work of the experimental stations during 

 the year 1870, Eldeua made experiments with 13 kinds of wheat, C of 

 rye, 9 of barley, 15 of oats, 7 of clover and grasses, 11 of turnips, and 11 

 of beet-roots. At Proskau experiments were made in planting potatoes 

 after the system of Gulich ; at Poppelsdorf inquiries into the proteine 

 substances of barley, buckwheat, ryes, &c., were continued. At Halle 

 they experimented in fattening with twelve sheep to compare the effect 

 of rapeseed-cake and of lupines, and examined the process of nutrition in 

 milk-producing animals. Among other subjects of inquiry at the experi- 

 mental stations of Prussia may be mentioned the calcination of trichiues; 

 the transfer of the French disease from cattle to rabbits ; the wool pro- 

 duction of common races of sheep; the breeding of such races among 

 themselves and with negretti; trials to prevent potatoe disease by petro- 

 leum; comparative methods of raising hops; cultivation of wheat after 

 the Lois Weedou system; the influence of salt kali on the vegetation of 

 the beet-root; the absorbtiou of albumen in the process of digestion in 

 ruminating animals; the variations of temperature at various depths of 

 the soil; comparative experiments with potash, sulphate of magnesia, 

 gypsum, «&;c., on j)lots in clover and grass, &c., &c. 



Most of the exj)eriniental stations owe their existence to the agricul- 

 tural associations ; the one at lusterburg was established by the Central 

 Association for Litthauen; that of Kuschen by the combined efforts of 

 the agricultural associations of two districts; the Pomeranian Agri- 

 cultural Society founded the station at EegeuAvalde, and an association 

 of farmers of various districts established the experimental station at 

 Dahme. The excellent experimental station at Ida Marienhiitte, near 

 Saaran, belongs to the Agricultural Centr.al Association of Silesia, and 

 is administered by a special board of trustees; those of Halle and Bonn 

 also have been founded by the local agricultural associations. » 



In the Kingdom of Saxony the chemical physiological experimental 

 station of the agricultural institute in the university of Leipzig is 

 munificiently provided with apparatus and materials for demonstrations 

 of all kinds. Great opportunities for investigation are offered by the 

 extensive laboratories and collections of the University of Jena to the 

 chemical experimental station connected with the same. There is also, 

 since 1840, in the vicinity of Jena an experimental and model farm, con- 

 ducted by Mr. Sturm, the renter of the estate. 



* From a table appended to tbe July and August number of the Prussian Annals of Agriculture it 

 appears tbat tlie state contiibuted in 1870 to twenty-seven agricultural academies and schools alone, 

 exclusive of colleges, from which have gradiiated since their existence 5,865 scholars, (4,701 Prussians 

 and 1,164 foreigners,) 38,428 thalers. To these schools belong 16,293^ morgen laud for farmicg and 

 experimental purposes. • 



