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ing, feeding, slaughtering, preparation for market, etc. They are 

 taught the best treatment of sick animals. They also cultivate the 

 land. If their primary instruction is defective, it is supplied by 

 special teaching. Their instruction is tested and completed by the 

 sub-director. After two years of pupilage, if they pass a satisfac 

 tory examination, they receive a certificate with a premium of 300 

 francs. If they do not pass this examinations they receive only 200 

 francs. 



In Prussia the government requires that every child shall be 

 educated ; assuming that it is the right and duty of the State 

 to protect itself from ignorance, the most fruitful source of 

 crime, as well as crime itself. She enjoys the enviable reputa 

 tion of being first among nations in this respect. All Germany, 

 Austria, and of late Kussia, are imitating her example, and act 

 on the principle that the farmer and mechanic must have as 

 thorough an education as the lawyer, doctor, or clergyman. 

 To insure this, they have established special schools, with 

 every appliance of land, buildings and apparatus ; taking stu 

 dents from the higher classes of the public schools or other 

 wise, and training them for their pursuits as superintendents, 

 overseers, or laborers. A description of one which lias served 

 for a model to the rest of Europe will suffice for all: 



The Boyal Land and Forest Academy of Wurtemberg is situated 

 at Hohenheim, a few miles from Stutgard. You will find there a 

 large farm, adjoining a government forest of five thousand acres 

 (these practical Germans know the importance of taking care of and 

 cultivating trees); about twenty acres, divided into one hundred 

 plats, are used for experimental purposes, where all questions based 

 upon soils and their preparation, methods of culture of new plants, 

 are tested ; a botanical garden, covering several acres, exhibiting all 

 the varieties of plants which can be grow:: in that climate ; there is 

 a beet sugar factory, a brewery, a distillery, a starch factory, a vine 

 gar factory, a malting and fruit-growing establishment, a silk worm 

 establishment, and machine shops, where agricultural implements 

 are made and mended, this department being expected to furnish 

 the rest of Germany with the best models. 



All the studies are pursued in connection with actual practice 

 in the field and forest, and embrace the general principles of 

 agriculture, composition and quality of soils, special plant culture, 

 meadow culture, grape, hop, and tobacco culture, fruit culture, 

 vegetable culture, breeding of domestic animals in general, horses, 

 cattle, sheep, and smaller animals, silkworm culture, bee culture, 

 dairying, and practical farm business. Parallel with this practical 

 instruction, there is carried along through the course of study arith 

 metic and algebra, bookkeeping, a knowledge of the laws and prin 

 ciples of taxation, physics, general and agricultural chemistry, ge- 



