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agriculturists, the pupils are at the same time also in- 

 structed in agriculture." 



Third. The farming schools, over forty in number, de- 

 signed for the sons of small farmers and peasant proprietors, in 

 which the instruction is partly theoretical and partly practical. 



Fourth. The supplemental schools, held in the evening 

 during the winter months and covering two winter courses, 

 their object being to enable young men who have left the 

 primary schools to still further educate themselves in mat- 

 ters of science bearing upon agriculture, and in agriculture 

 itself. These four classes form the graded links in the 

 chain of agricultural education in Germany ; but in addition 

 to these are the large numbers of special schools, and ex- 

 periment or control stations, to which a more extended 

 reference will be made later on. In all, "the Gemian 

 empire contains not less than one hundred and eighty-four 

 agricultural colleges and experiment stations, whose duty it 

 is, not only to learn all that can be learned of the capacity of 

 the soil and the methods of renewing and enriching it, but 

 to bring the results of these experiments to the table of 

 every farmer in the land." * 



The two best examples of Agricultural Institutes f are the 

 Agricultural High School at Berlin and the Royal Academy 

 at Hohenheim, the former being purely theoretical, the latter 

 combining theory with practice. To give some idea of the 

 completeness of their equipment a few statistics respect- 

 ing the school at Berlin may not be out of place. It forms 

 simply a department of the university, having its own sepa- 

 rate faculty, lecture rooms, apparatus, etc. Its staff consists 

 of ten professors, twenty instructors and six assistants, be- 

 sides clerks, modelers, and others. Thirteen rooms are 

 devoted to the investigation and study of morphology and 

 physiological botany alone. Animal physiology and histology 

 receive a like generous treatment. The laboratories are sup- 

 plied with the finest appliances and apparatus devised by 

 science, and provision is made for the accommodation of 



* Adams — " Plea for Scientific Agriculture." 



t For tlie schedules of study and flgui'es I am largely indebted to : 

 Jenkins — "Report of Royal Commission on Technical Instruction"; 

 Royer — " L' agriculture allemande, ses ecoles, son organization," etc.; 

 "Compte Rendu de 1' execution du ddcret du 3 Oct., 1848,relatif ^I'en- 

 seignement professionnel de 1' agriculture." 



