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Pupils must have attended a form corresponding to the 

 first one of second grade schools, or must be 12 years old 

 and possess a sufficiently good primary education. 



The obligatory courses are : Physics, Chemistry, 

 Botany, Zoology, Agronomy, Agricultural Chemistry, 

 Special Cultures, Zootechny, Book-keeping. 



The following supplementary courses may be added : 

 Analytical Chemistry, Fruit Arboriculture, Market Garde- 

 ning, Forestry, Poultry keeping, Entomology, Bee 

 keeping, Agricultural mechanics, Rural Buildings, Agri- 

 cultural Technology, Commerce and Rural Economy. 



The course consists of : a preparatory year, in which 

 at least one hour a week is devoted to theoretical lessons 

 in natural sciences, one hour to lessons in agronomy, two 

 hours to demonstrations and practical exercises; and two 

 ordinary years during which there are in each week 

 five hours of theoretical and five hours of practical les- 

 sons. 



The theoretical instruction of obligatory courses is 

 given as much as possible during the winter time and the 

 methods adopted are intuitive and deductive ; the practical 

 instruction consists in excursions, applications and 

 repetitions, and exercises in drawing. 



Each school carries out at least one voluntary experi- 

 ment a year. 



A report on these experiments is sent to the Administra- 

 tion of Agriculture. 



Each School draws up a detailed programme and sends 

 a copy to the Minister and the Inspector : the latter also 

 receives at the beginning of each year a list of the hours 

 of lessons. 



The grants and scholarships are described in the first 

 article, pp. 429-431. 



