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October, 1912 
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sidies from the State or from public cor- 
porations. They are in the country in con- 
nection with a smaller or middle-sized es- 
tate. The head of the estate, whether 
owner, tenant, or manager, is at the same 
time director of the institution. The pupils 
are full boarders. In return for this and for 
the teaching they pay boarding and school 
fees. Many of the farming schools admit 
pupils without payment or with half pay- 
ment.” 
The instruction is both practical and theo- 
retical, preferably the former in the Sum- 
mer, the latter in the Winter. The practi- 
cal teaching extends to all kinds of agri- 
cultural labor, which every pupil must learn 
to perform by continued personal applica- 
tion. 
The theoretical teaching is given in the 
elementary subjects, in rural economy, in 
natural science (a subject of special im- 
portance to agriculture), in horticulture and 
fruit growing, in veterinary science, fre- 
quently also in select sections of natural 
economy ard agricultural law. The com- 
plete course lasts two years. Admittance 
is conditional on previous elementary edu- 
cation and knowledge of simple agricultural 
practice. 
“There were seventeen farming schools 
in Prussia alone at the end of 1908 at- 
tended by 1,011 pupils and having an aggre- 
gate teaching staff of 137. In 1907 the 
Prussian Government contributed $6,979 
and local Governments, private organiza- 
tions, etc., $33,988 to their support. 
“Continuation schools, in which those who 
have completed their elementary education 
and have begun their life’s work receive 
further general or special instruction, are a 
prominent feature of the German general 
educational system, and are maintained in 
agricultural as well as in industrial districts. 
In the agricultural districts they are in- 
tended chiefly for strengthening and extend- 
ing the elementary education of the rural 
population, but in some of them technical 
agricultural instruction is also given. The 
teaching is conducted principally in Win- 
ter, during some evenings of each week and 
often on Sunday afternoons. In the agri- 
cultural districts of Prussia, at the close of 
1908, 3,781 continuation schools were at- 
tended by 55,889 pupils and cost $136,636 
for their maintenance. In seven of these 
schools, attended by 171 pupils, specialized 
instruction in agricultural subjects was be- 
ing given at a cost of $454. No doubt the 
proportion of these latter schools has sub- 
sequently increased. 
“Of a somewhat similar nature are the 
possibly more important agricultural Win- 
ter schools. These are attended by young 
farmers 15 to 20 years of age, and resemble 
the farming schools already described, ex- 
cept that the teaching is purely theoretical 
in its nature, the pupils being engaged on 
their fathers’ or others’ estates in Summer. 
Otherwise the subjects and manner of in- 
struction are not different, and the daily 
hours of teaching being many, the same 
theoretical knowledge may be obtained by 
two Winters’ attendance at one of these 
schools as by two years’ attendance at one 
of the farming schools. The schools are 
conducted by qualified directors, who are 
generally occupied during the Summer 
months as visiting lecturers. 
“At the close of 1908 there were 184 ag- 
ricultural Winter schools in Prussia, having 
1,382 teachers and 7,273 pupils. They re- 
ceived for their support $88,480 from the 
Prussian Government and $160,263 from 
local Governments and private organiza- 
tions.” 
