160 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



A valuable agricultural library for tbe use of the students ; 



A reading room where all the agricultural papers are taken ; 



An infirmary for sick animals, with a room for operations and 

 necessary tools ; 



A rich collection of pathological preparations and objects. 



Special lots are set apart for experiments. Besides this there 

 is a government experimental station at Jena. The object of 

 this is to develop the natural laws which relate to agriculture, 

 through scientific investigations and experiments conducted in 

 the most scientific manner. It is requisite that young men should 

 learn how to institute and conduct scientific investigations. 



Kind op Instruction. — The university is distinguished from 

 other institutes of instruction, less through what it teaches than 

 the mode adopted. The agriculturaf institute is a constituent 

 part of the university and must be an active member of its 

 organism, and therefore it must maintain a mode of teaching 

 consistent with the claims of a university, that the instruction 

 imparted may incite to self-activity ; that the student may 

 attain, by the wise use of academical freedom, the objects of 

 his college course, as far as possible, through self-culture ; that 

 he may, as far as possible, be thoroughly educated, not in one 

 or two branches, but in all. So far as regards instruction 

 in agriculture, the professors strive to make it enthusiastic, 

 intelligible and practical. 



Course of Instruction. — The course of instruction in the 

 principal sciences can be completed in four half-yearly terras, 

 but the student is advised to pay more attention to auxiliary 

 branches, which require a three years course. But the subjects 

 are so arranged that new members can enter twice a year, in 

 spring and in autumn. Every one on entering is expected to 

 make known his objects and intentions, and the time he can 

 devote to theoretical studies. 



The beginning and ending of the institute lectures are gov- 

 erned by the terms and vacations of the university, and public 

 announcements are made through the public journals. They 

 generally begin at the end of April and the end of October. 

 The members of the institute devote their vacations to agricul- 

 tural excursions or to a visit to some landed estate. The 

 students can room in the buildings of the university, or in 

 private houses in the city. 



