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so as to give their educational system, in spite of its foreign 

 origin, an independent and indigenous impress. In Canada, 

 once more, which has an excellent educational system for 

 Agriculture, producing good results, the leading Agricultural 

 Colleges are advisedly attached to Universities, that of 

 Ontario, which is the senior of them all, to the University 

 of Toronto, that of Quebec to the McGill University. Both 

 are entitled to confer University degrees. But without 

 question University education for Agriculture is most widely 

 diffused and pursued with most visible vigour in Germany, 

 where, as Professor Campbell, speaking of what he has 

 himself seen, owns that in science " they are ahead of us." 

 Such College education is also most fashionable there, 

 which accounts for the number of pupils who flock to it. 

 And it is that really which gives to German Agriculture 

 that superior tone which Mr. Middleton recognises. For, 

 although there is not a little " addle " fruit produced in 

 College nurseries, — more in Germany than where there is 

 less fashionableness but more general earnestness about 

 the study — College education may in general be said to 

 supply the " brains " to national Agriculture. College and 

 University tuition, in this matter, is, of course, designed 

 for the highest grades of educandi — socially and economically 

 the highest — and those aiming at the most perfect, or, at any 

 rate, proposing to themselves the most extensive, practice 

 of their calling. Issued from their Universities, these men 

 should, as they do in Germany, set the tone for Agriculture 

 in their country, serving as exemplars and, by their practice, 

 as teachers for the lower grades, who cannot be expected 

 to devote the same amount of time, money, and application 

 to higher agricultural study. 



Separation of theory from practice has also been found 

 distinctly advisable in agricultural training institutions on 

 the second plane, known in Germany as " Landwirtschaft- 

 liche Ivlittelschulen." The corresponding institutions in 

 the United States may be taken to be the '' Special County 

 Agricultural High Schools " and the " Congressional Schools." 

 " Colleges " are intended for the education of agriculturists 

 of the higher grade, intended to own or manage fairly large 



