424 EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE. 



There are likewise on the establishment workshops or manu- 

 factories, if so they may be called, 



For the making of agricultural implements ; 



A threshing-house and machine for grain ; 



A dairy room, for the manufacture of different kinds of cheese 

 and of butter ; 



A magnanerie, or establishment for silk-worms ; 



A stercorary, for the manufacture of compost manures. 



To all these various departments the attention of the students 

 is closely called, and they are required to take some part in the 

 labors connected with them. 



Besides the farm belonging to the establishment, there is a 

 field of one hundred acres devoted exclusively to the pupils, and 

 principally to the culture of plants not grown on the farm. 

 Here they make experiments in different preparations of the soil. 

 and with different manures. 



Two scholars, one of the second and one of the first year, 

 are appointed to attend particularly to the general condition of 

 the farm. Their business is to examine constantly the whole 

 establishment ; the works that are going on in every depart 

 ment ; to look after the woods and the plantations ; the gardens; 

 the horses ; the fatting cattle ; the dairy ; the sheep-fold ; the 

 swine ; and the hospital ; and to attend to the correspondence 

 and the visitors. This service lasts a fortnight, and there is a 

 change of one every week, taking care always that there shall be 

 one scholar of the first and one of the second year associated. 

 They attend to all the labors on the farm, and to all the commu 

 nications between the principal director and inspectors and the 

 laborers. In the veterinary or hospital department of the estab 

 lishment, they assist the surgeon in all his visits and operations ; 

 take notes of his prescriptions ; make up and attend to the 

 administration of his medicines ; and observe particularly the 

 sanitary condition of the stables and buildings, where the live 

 stock, sick or well, are kept. 



On Saturday evening, each scholar, to whom this duty has 

 been assigned, makes to his fellow-pupils a full verbal report of 

 what has been done. This report is transcribed into a journal 

 designed for that purpose ; and thus a continued history of the 

 entire management of the farm is kept up. The whole school 

 is divided into sections or classes of twelve each ; six of two and 



