AGRICULTURAL INSTRUCTION 43 



struction that prevails in Germany. The original 

 founder of this system (as related in a Report 

 on Agricultural Instruction in Germany, pre- 

 pared by Dr. Frederick Rose, His Majesty's 

 Consul at Stuttgart) was a certain doctor of 

 medicine, Thaer by name, who, in 1802, con- 

 verted his small property at Celle, near Han- 

 over, into an experimental estate and farming 

 academy. He had made a study of German 

 and foreign agricultural literature, especially in 

 regard to the influence of chemistry upon agri- 

 culture, and he had "benefited greatly by the 

 superior methods then prevailing in the United 

 Kingdom " ; but he had sought in vain for a 

 practical system, based upon the results of scien- 

 tific research, by which agriculture could be 

 brought to a higher degree of productiveness, 

 and so he started an academy of his own. 



From these small beginnings of 100 years ago 

 agricultural instruction has so far extended in 

 Germany that it is now divided by Dr. Rose 

 into the following categories : — 



Advanced : 



1. Independent agricultural high schools. 



2. Agricultural institutes at the universities. 



3. Other higher agricultural institutes. 



4. Special lecture courses for advanced owners, man- 



agers, and farmers of large estates, etc. 



