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Agricultural Education in Germany. 



" real " school), and proof of at least one year's practical work. 

 The details of the courses of instruction are as follows : — 



Term I. (winter): — General farming and cultivation I. (soils and drainage); general 

 principles of breeding of animals ; experimental physics (mechanics and heat) ; general 

 experimental chemistry ; mineralogy and minerals ; anatomy and morphology of 

 plants ; zoology and comparative anatomy (vertebrata), useful and noxious insects, 

 anatomy of domestic animals ; agrarian affairs and policy ; legislation relating to 

 cultivation of land ; practical work in the determination of minerals ; practical micro- 

 scopic work, with special reference to the anatomy of plants. 



Term II. (summer): — General farming and cultivation II. (irrigation, meadow culti- 

 vation and manures) ; horse breeding; pig breeding ; chemistry (repetition) ; geology 

 and geognosy; botany and physiology of plants (including grass and fodder and 

 practical determination of plants) ; zoology and animal physiology (domestic animals 

 and general review) ; practical chemical work ; practical physiological botany ; law 

 and State science (Imperial and Prussian law, with special reference to farmers, 

 surveyors and agricultural civil engineers) 



Term III. (winter): — Special farming and cultivation J. (fodder and cereals); 

 agricultural management and book-keeping ; cattle breeding ; sheep breeding and 

 wool production, with demonstrations ; feeding methods ; agricultural machines ; 

 meteorology ; botany, including diseases of plants and preventive methods ; seeds ; 

 veterinary science, including hygiene and contagious diseases of domestic animals ; 

 practical planting and knowledge of soils. 



Term IV. (summer): — Special farming and cultivation II. (market produce); investi- 

 gation and valuation of soils ; agricultural valuation ; history of German agriculture ; 

 cattle demonstrations ; dairies ; veterinary science, including internal diseases of 

 domestic animals ; skin diseases ; horse shoeing ; practical agricultural management ; 

 practical breeding ; physiological and zoological work ; exercises in national economy; 

 optics and electricity (only for students taking the full three years' course). 



Term V. (winter) : — Soils and valuation ; utilisation of forest produce ; fruit cultiva- 

 tion ; spirit and starch manufacture ; adulteration of foods and fodder ; agricultural 

 utilisation of moors ; animal physiology ; practical chemical work. 



Term VI. (summer) : — Machinery and building constructions of agricultural allied 

 industries (sugar manufacture, distilleries and breweries); land measurement and 

 levelling ; afforestation ; vegetable cultivation ; pisciculture ; agricultural archi- 

 tecture ; practical work in the agronomic and in another laboratory selected by 

 students ; practical determination and valuation of soils. 



In addition to the above subjects of the regular six-term 

 course further subjects are recommended which are mostly 

 optional. 



The full plan of instruction, which is arranged for a period of 

 six terms (three years), is also adapted to students who take 

 the shorter course of two years ffour terms). A shorter period 

 •of study than two years is discouraged as productive of imper- 

 fect and faulty results, and is only permissible with the intention 

 of refreshing or increasing the knowledge of certain special 

 subjects hitherto neglected or imperfectly acquired. 



