192 EDUCATION 



teachers are paid by the Government to travel from 

 village to village. There are also thirteen special schools 

 in which such subjects as meadow culture, flax dressing, 

 and gardening are taught.' 



Wiirttemberg is especially well provided with means of 

 agricultural education. Besides the Royal Institution of 

 Hohenheim, there are three school farms, an agi'icultural 

 chair at Tubingen, and a veterinary school at Stuttgard. 

 On many large farms there are apprenticed pupils pre- 

 paring for Hohenheim. Voluntary winter schools, obliga- 

 tory evening schools, and lecture meetings enable farmers 

 to keep pace with the latest scientific discoveries. Prac- 

 tical agriculturists, in the pay of the State, visit the 

 different districts, discuss special branches of farming, and 

 co-operate with local associations in experiments and im- 

 provements. In all these countries admirable means exist 

 for diffusing agricultural knowledge, and bringing home to 

 the smallest farmers the best modes of cultivation. Scien- 

 tific instruction is given in a practical form, and in a shape 

 which is easily comprehended. 



Almost every nation on the Continent is better pro- 

 vided with means of agricultural education than England, 

 and a Committee of the Royal Agricultural Society is now 



' After the emancipation of the serfs, Russia recognised the urgent 

 need of spreading among the mass a rational knowledge of agriculture. 

 She has her agricultural museums, her three grades of primary, secon- 

 dary, and higher education, as well as special schools adapted to the 

 wants of different districts. Bavaria, besides large institutions at 

 Weihenstephan near Munich, Lichtenhof, and Schleissheim, has agri- 

 cultural sections in all the technical schools. Hesse possesses an agri- 

 cultural college at Darmstadt, open to young farmers from November 1 

 to March 31. Courses are given for the benefit of national school- 

 masters ; botany, physics, and chemistry are taught in the national 

 schools ; wanderleJirer impart instruction in the villages, visiting their 

 circuits every year, so as to be able to note improvement. 



