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is given by lectures, and in one at least, on Sundays, after 

 church, when the young men are at liberty. 



The most celebrated of the dairy schools is at Raden. The 

 course lasts six months. Only six pupils are received at a 

 time and the fee is fifteen dollars per month. Instruction is 

 given not merely in the different systems of cheese-making, 

 as that of Tilsit, Gruyere and others, but also particular 

 attention is paid to book-keeping and the principles of breed- 

 ing and feeding. One of the best of the dairy schools for 

 girls is at Heinrichtsthal in Saxony. It seems to be a sort 

 of finishing-off school, where farmers' daughters, about to set 

 up households of their own, can receive practical instruction 

 in the daily duties of life. The fee is forty-five dollars for 

 three months' lodging and instruction, and from ten to twelve 

 pupils are received at a time. The course embraces : The 

 technical management of a dairy, including book-keeping ; 

 feeding and management of cows ; fattening calves and pigs ; 

 instruction in cooking ; house-keeping in general ; the man- 

 agement of poultry and of a kitchen-garden. 



The subject of forestry is one to which great attention has 

 been paid from the earliest times in Germany. As far back 

 as 1795 we find a department of forestry in the university at 

 Giessen, and schools devoted to its study, established in the 

 early part of the century. Of the thoroughness and complete- 

 ness of the instruction, we can form no idea till we have 

 examined the course of study. At the royal Saxony Forest 

 Academy the course is two and one-half years, and embraces 

 the following studies, classified under the three heads of 

 Fundamental Sciences, Professional and Complemental : — 



Fundamental Sciences. — Chemistry, mineralogy, geognosy 

 (with special reference to study of soils), botany (structural 

 and physiological) and forest botany, zoology (with particu- 

 lar reference to animals injurious or the contrary to forest 

 economy), entomology, physics and natural philosophy, 

 meteorology, mathematics (commencing with arithmetic and 

 leading up through geometry, plane and analytical, to integral 

 and differential calculus), mensuration, mechanics, architect- 

 ure, hydraulic engineering, road-making, general economy. 



Professional Sciences. — History and literature of forestry, 

 forest culture and conservation, forest mathematics, measure- 



