168 BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



unlike the practice in entering Harvard College, where compar- 

 atively few get in without " conditions." 



Each pupil is required to attend all the lectures ; but they 

 have a class of pupils as they have at Hohenheim, called hospi- 

 ianten, or students who take only the partial course. 



The theoretical instruction is given in a regular course of two 

 winters, the term beginning on the fifteenth of October of each 

 year, and ending on the thirty-first of March. During the 

 intervening summer they are either at home, at work on the 

 farm, or, if they desire it, the director of the institute procures 

 them suitable places with skilful practical farmers. 



Natives of Nassau pay no tuition. Outsiders pay forty-four 

 florins, or about eighteen dollars, a year. All the pupils board 

 in the town of "Wiesbaden. The instruction is by lectures and 

 written and verbal questions on the studies. After the return 

 of the students from their summer's work on the farm, they are 

 required within six weeks to present a full written detail of 

 operations, which, after suitable corrections, are returned to the 

 writer. 



The parents or guardians are informed, from time to time, of 

 the industry and conduct of the pupil. Gambling, so fashion- 

 able and exciting at Wiesbaden, is forbidden, and no student is 

 allowed to smoke or to keep a dog. 



The institute possesses a library, which appeared to be toler- 

 ably well stocked, very good collections and fine lecture and 

 study rooms. It is on rather a small scale as compared with 

 some others, though it may be called one of the superior class. 

 It was founded in 1835, and, as may be inferred from what has 

 been said above, on the principle that it is of no use to try to 

 teach the theory and practice at the same school. There is a 

 small farm connected with the school, but, judging from the 

 helter-skelter, or generally mixed-up condition of everything 

 about the premises, I should think they were quite right in not 

 attempting to teach practice there. Old ploughs, dragfe, carts, 

 harrows and every thing else lay around the buildings in no 

 small confusion. When I drove into the yard I felt sure we 

 had made some mistake, and had got upon the premises of a 

 very slovenly farmer, but the driver was sure he was right, and 

 the result justified his topographical knowledge. The farm 

 buildings are irregular and crowded, not large or imposing, but 



