practical instruction, the number of pupils in each class is limited to 30. Teaching at 

 this institute is in German. 



The board of administration at the farmers'school at Pisek installed in 1884 a Czech 

 course of forestry, with a two years'course. In 1889 a higher school of forestry was 

 also opened there, very similar to the German institute at Zakupy. At the forestry 

 schools at Pisek the number of pupils is not limited and, therefore, the influx of pupils 

 from Bohemia, Moravia and other countries is very large. These schools were founded 

 at the suggestion of Ladislav Burket, director of a farmers'school, and with the help 

 of Prince Karel Schwarzenberg and his son, JUDr. Bedrich Schwarzenberg, who is still 

 chairman of the board of administration of the farmers'school. 



Besides these schools there were founded lower German schools of forestry, the 

 so-called Waldbauschulen, at Cheb and Ceske Budejovice; these, however, have no 

 great prospect under the new policy adopted by the government. 



In Moravia there are 3 schools of forestry: the German higher and lower institute 

 of forestry at Hranice and the Czech school of forestry ; it was then transformed 

 into a higher school. Before being removed to Hranice, the forestry schools of this 

 town were at Sovinec, and later at Clsov. The institute of forestry at Pisek has been 

 elevated to a higher school of forestry, with a four years'course. The university of 

 Brno and the higher schools of forestry at Pisek and Jemnice (Moravia) will in future 

 be Czech. Only at the institute of forestry at Jemnice will the teaching be in German. 



At Domazlice and in some places in Eastern Bohemia lower forestry schools will 

 be founded, similar to the school at Beroun which developed out of game keepers' 

 courses. These courses had been founded by Mr. Valentin, first commissioner of woods 

 and forests. This year the Ministry of Agriculture will also open two schools in Slo- 

 vakia: a lower forestry school at Liptovsky Hradek and a higher school of forestry at 

 Sfavnice, with a tour years'course; the last named in place of the former Magyar academy. 



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