158 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Connection of the Institute with the University. — The 

 institute is an integral part of the university at Jena, and is 

 under the same government. The director and most of the 

 professors are also connected with the university ; those who 

 enter the institute for farmers are matriculated as students at 

 the university, and attain thereby all the rights, and assume 

 also all the responsibilities of academical students, the same as 

 in any other department of the university. 



The advantages which the institute gains through the union 

 with the university, pertain in part to the means of instruction, 

 and in part to the spirit of the academical life. 



To the means of instruction of the university which the 

 members of the institute can enjoy, belong, besides the lectures 

 on those parts of natural science and political economy which 

 are not to be had in an isolated institute, and the lectures upon 

 mathematics, philosophy, history, general law, &c., the library, 

 the botanical garden, the mineralogical museum, the zoological 

 cabinet, the observatory, the gymnasium, the riding, swimming 

 and boxing schools, &c. 



In consequence of the use of these means of instruction, the 

 institute stands in an independent relation with the university, 

 which secures it great advantages ; yet far more important is 

 the more intimate connection with it, that is, the necessity that 

 its instruction of the same principles should be more general 

 and comprehensive, and fundamentally scientific, like that of 

 the university, that the institute, through an intimate sympathy 

 in the emulation of the university students, and in connection 

 with them should realize the idea of German university life, 

 and thereby advance the higher education of students in agri- 

 culture and political economy. 



Objects op Instruction. — The sciences useful to the farmer 

 which the institute teaches, are as follows : — 



I. Sciences relating to the branches of agriculture. Sciences 

 bearing on the cultivation of agricultural plants, in its whole 

 range, as climate, soils, cultivation, tillage, manuring, seed, 

 after-culture, harvesting, culture of grains, mercantile and 

 fodder plants, fruits, &c. The breeding of animals, in its 

 whole range, the principles of breeding, nourishment and care, 

 raising, keeping and use of particular sorts and races of 

 domestic animals ; farm management, with all its branches, 



