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and farmers, as well as higher grade schools, like 

 Grignon, for landed proprietors and estate agents ; and 

 finally the Institut Agronomique supplies every appliance 

 that is required for scientific investigation. There are 

 besides special schools, and veterinary schools at Alfort, 

 Lyons, and Toulouse. In many of the primary schools 

 agriculture is taught, and to some of the normal schools 

 land is attached for practical teaching ; each department 

 a,lready is, or shortly will be, pervaded by a peripatetic 

 professor. 



In the Austrian Empire the school of Krumman was 

 founded so far back as 1799, There are now, scattered 

 through the country, three superior, four middle-class, and 

 seven lower agricultural schools ; there are also several 

 special establishments in which instruction is aflforded in 

 such branches as shepherding, bee-keeping, grape and 

 orchard management. 



The dairy schools of Denmark have already enabled 

 Danish farmers to rival English produce in London mar- 

 kets. Belgium, Italy, Norway, Saxony, Sweden, are all 

 more amply provided with means of general education in 

 agriculture than England. As France has her Institut 

 National Agronomique, Germany has her Institute ; the 

 Agricultural Sections of Jena, Poppelsdorf, Bonn, or Got- 

 tingen correspond to Grignon and the ecoles nationales ; 

 the Landwirthschaftschulen to the ecoles iwatiques, the 

 Ackerbauschulen to the fermes ecoles. In Prussia more 

 than thirt}^ institutions teach the practice and theory of 

 agriculture ; Moglin, founded in 1806 by Thaer, the 

 Arthur Young of Germany, offers education of the highest 

 class ; Annaberg trains peasant farmers and bailiffs ; in 

 twelve primary schools agricultural pupils act as hired 

 servants, and do the work of the model farms : itinerant 



