44 GERMANY 



Secondary : 



Agricultural schools. 



Elementary : 



1. Farming schools. 



2. Agricultural winter schools. 



3. Special lower agricultural schools. 



4. Rural improvement schools. 



5. Special courses of lectures. 



For details respecting all these various phases 

 of the system, and the courses of instruction 

 followed, I must refer the reader to Dr. Rose's 

 own report. Suffice it here to say that Dr. Rose, 

 in summing up the general situation, tells us 

 that the whole system of secondary and elemen- 

 tary agricultural instruction in Germany, in its 

 principal aspects, was organized during the second 

 half of the nineteenth century, and he adds : 

 " At the present time in Germany there is no 

 branch of agricultural production for which 

 special facilities for instruction are not pro- 

 vided." 



There may be individuals among the agricul- 

 tural community who will say, " What is the 

 use of all this instruction ? Our fathers and 

 grandfathers prospered without it, and we should 

 do the same if we were only assured of better 

 markets." But agricultural research and instruc- 

 tion have brought about great results in Ger- 



