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There are eleven professors and instructors of the institute. 

 The number of students is at present one hundred and ten, 

 ranging in ages from 18 to 21 years, I should think. The 



SCHOOL OP PRACTICAL FARMING 



is at Zwatzen, but a short distance off. In that the sons of 

 peasants are educated, and they have to work their way. 



Tlie general oversight of this practical school resides in the 

 Ministry of the Interior of the Grand Duchy, the direction is 

 committed to Prof. Stockhardt, of Jena, and the immediate 

 management to a superintendent on the place. 



The object of the school is to give its pupils an education 

 which will fit them for the skilful practical management of 

 middling-sized and small estates. 



The course of instruction extends over two years, and is 

 devoted to the following objects : Religion, the German lan- 

 guage, arithmetic and geometry, drawing, singing, geography 

 and history ; physics and natural history, agriculture, meadow 

 management, fruit and garden culture, cattle-breeding, instruc- 

 tion in the carrying on of the farm in the most skilful manner, 

 book-keeping, agricultural mechanics, and field measuring. 



The division of these objects of instruction is so arranged 

 that in addition to the school studies comes teaching in general 

 preparatory sciences and the different branches of agriculture. 

 Besides suitable means of instruction, is the opportunity of 

 observation on the estate at Zwatzen, and the advantage of 

 veterinary lectures and teaching in the Veterinary School at 

 Jena. 



The employment on the land belonging to the school, which 

 has recently been increased, as well as in the workshop for the 

 manufacture of agricultural implements, serves as a practical 

 illustration of the instruction in the school, and as a means of 

 preparation for the future calling. 



The pupils live with the family of the superintendent and 

 his assistants, and all eat at the same table. They are expected 

 to have had some practice in farm labor on admittance. 

 Natives pay 80 thalers or $60 a year, others $75, for instruc- 

 tion, lodging and board. The admission of new students takes 

 place in the spring and fall. 



