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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN GERMANY. 



An interesting report to the Foreign Office by Dr. Rose, 

 H.M. Consul at Stuttgart, on the organisation of agricultural 

 education in Germany states that the foundation of agricultural 

 instruction in Germany was laid by Thaer, a doctor of medicine, 

 at the beginning of last century. Since that time facilities for 

 agricultural instruction have been provided throughout the 

 country, and they may now be divided into the following 

 categories : — 



Advanced agricultural instruction : — (i) Independent agricul- 

 tural colleges; (2) agricultural institutes at the universities; 

 (3) other higher agricultural institutes ; (4) special lecture courses 

 for owners, managers, and farmers, &c. 



Secondary agricultural instruction : — Agricultural schools. 



Elementary agricultural instruction: — (1) Farming schools; 

 (2) agricultural winter schools ; (3) special lower agricultural 

 schools; (4) rural improvement schools ; (5) special courses of 

 lectures. 



The principal objects aimed at by the agricultural colleges 

 and institutes are the instruction of future owners, tenants, 

 farmers, and managers of large or small estates in all branches of 

 theoretical and practical agricultural science ; the theoretical 

 and practical instruction of future professors, lecturers and 

 teachers of agricultural subjects ; theoretical and practical 

 instruction in surveying and agricultural civil engineering ; the 

 training of future officials of the land administrative depart- 

 ments ; and scientific research for the furtherance of agricultural 

 progress and knowledge. 



Three agricultural colleges in Germany are situated at 

 Berlin, Poppelsdorf, and Hohenheim respectively. These 



