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university. There are nine universities which have agricultural depart- 
ments; those at Bertin, Halle, G6ttingen, Kénigsberg, Leipsic, Heidel- 
berg, Jena, Giesen, and Kiel. Students in the agricultural course, may, 
if they choose, hear the lectures in all the other branches. The agri- 
cultural course embraces instruction on the following topics: Physiol- 
ogy, history of civilization, of agriculture, and of agricultural literature ; 
universal arithmetic, geometry, and geodesy ; experimental pbysics, 
chemistry, mineralogy, botany, and zoology; national economy, tax- 
ation of farms, agricultural management, and book-keeping ; the science 
of finance, agricultural statistics, and agricultural and commercial laws ; 
general land-tiiling, special plant-raising, cultivation of meadows, hor- 
ticulture, wood-culture, the breeding, keeping, feeding, and veterinary 
treatment of live-stock, wool-growing, and horse-shoeing; agricultural 
machinery and implements; surveying, leveling, draining, and building; 
practice in chemical and physiological laboratories, demoustrations and 
dissections in veterinary clinicsand anatomy, and in draining and estimat- 
ing soils. 
In addition to, and disconnected with, the institutions for agricultural 
education, are about thirty experimental stations. These are designed, 
first, to protect the farmers from imposition in buying chemical or other 
artificial fertilizers, by testing them, as offered in the market, and expos- 
‘ing and prosecuting all frauds, either in the manufacturer or vender; sec- 
ond, to test chemically the properties of different soils, and determine to 
what crop they are best adapted, or what ingredients they are most de- 
ficient in; third, to determine, by experiments in feeding farm-animals, 
how to produce the most meat, fat, milk, butter, wool, &c., with the 
least cost or waste; and, fourth, to ascertain the sources and habits of 
worms, insects, and diseases injurious to plants, and to promulgate pre- 
ventives and antidotes for the same. , 
ForEST AREA OF GERMANY.—The area of Germany comprises 
54,102,769 hectares, (or 133,693,352 acres,) of which 13,940,541 are in 
woodland, or about 25.7 per cent., making the area per capita .348 
hectare. 
The distribution and percentage of woodland are as follows: 
Hectares. Per cent. 
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