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as France, the landed proprietors have tlie strongest repugnance to 

 the employment of (Rcgisseurs) managers of their farms coming 

 as scholars from the best agricultural institutes! The ve.y su- 

 perior school of Hohenheim itself forms uo exception in tliis 

 respect, and the young nven from the gymnasiums who have 

 never ctudied agriculture at all, arc preferred as overseers or 

 managers. In every pursuit the perfection of the process is tho 

 indispensable thing, and that is not acquired except by long and 

 incessant practice. 



Sometimes an able workman rises to tho condition of a good 

 engineer, but a very small number of good engineers are good 

 workmen. This is far more true in agriculture than in any 

 manufacture, because the work is less divided, more various, 

 more difGcult, and above all, more painful. The working far- 

 mer, accustomed to the fitiguc and hard necessity of liis labor, 

 cannot study; the agricultural engineering scliolar (if I may so 

 express myself to make my thought better understood) has too 

 many things to learn to be able to practice. 



In the raising of any product the taste of the consumer is to 

 be gratiiied, and this necessity extends to intellectual as well £S 

 to material products. Besides, tlie German and French farmers 

 generally prefer managers (Regisncurs)^ who arc practical, and 

 come from the v;orking schools, (although of less knowledge) to 

 the more learned from the Institutes. As to the farmers gene- 

 rally, they think it derogatory to their sons to take charge of a 

 farm school after coming cut of college. 



A different system has been adopted in some schools. Mr. 

 Schultz, Ex-Director of the Agricultural Academy of the Eldena, 

 had founded between 18^6 and 1834, and had re-opened in 1839 

 a sort of Tlieoretical Agricultural Colh'gc, without anyfarm work 

 at all. Collections, Museums, and the Administrative Sciences 

 alone, are taught to about filty scholars. The College has had 

 few imitators. Sucli is the divided opinion as to Agricultural 

 teaching. in Wurtcmburg whicl: of all Germany is most advanced 

 in the way of Agricultural progress and instruction. For tho 

 land owners and great farmers, a solitary Btipcrior school like 

 the Ri:)yal Institute of Hohenheim is enough. There they may 



