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advantage, that parents are willing to send their sons to the 

 colleges. . . . And it follows that the time spent in 

 merely mechanical and uninstructive labor in the agricul- 

 tural colleges, detracts to that extent from the opportunities 

 of the student and stints his education." * 



Third. Numbers are not looked upon as the measure of 

 success. It is the quality of the education and the standard 

 of the men turned out. In Bavaria, for example, 1,096 

 supplemental schools are supported, with an average attend- 

 ance of only 18 pupils ; and in 7 winter schools we find only 

 157 pupils, but a teaching force of 53. At the practical 

 school of agriculture at the Chateau of Tomblaine, in 1882, 

 there were 18 students and 15 instructors. At Les Mer- 

 chines, 20 pupils and 8 teachers. The little kingdom of 

 Wtirtemberg, with an area of 7,675 square miles (a little 

 less than Massachusetts), and a population of 1,971,118 (a 

 little larger than Massachusetts), supports, at an annual ex- 

 pense of $51,370, the following schools : — 



The Agricultural Institute at Hohenheim, with 21 teachers and 72 



students. 

 The Veterinary School at Stuttgart, with 13 teachers and 60 



students. 

 The Farm Schools at Ellwangen, Ochsenhausen, Kirchberg, each 



with 12 students. 

 The Viticultural School at Weinsberg, with 15 students. 

 Five Higher Agricultural Schools, with 89 students. 

 ■883 Evening and Winter Schools, with 20,100 students. 



These statistics bring us to our last point ; namely, the 

 dependence of these schools upon government aid. Left to 

 their own resources they would soon be given up ; and 

 it is only by the subsidy of the general government, by 

 the appropriations of the provincial governments, and the 

 support of the societies that they are enabled to carry on 

 their work. 



Perhaps now it may be asked, what are the results of this 

 lavish outlay of money on the part of the government and 

 individuals? What the direct results? France, with 37,- 

 400,000 inhabitants, supports a population of 184 to the 



* Hilgard — " Progress in Agriculture" (Atlantic Monthly, 1882). 



