Agricultural Education in Germany. 



The instruction given in the lectures is supplemented and 

 assisted by practical work and scientific research work in the 

 laboratories, collections and various institutes, and by demon- 

 strations and excursions. 



The examination for the certificate of agricultural science 

 at the Prussian agricultural colleges, to which as a rule only 

 students who have finished a prescribed course are admitted, is 

 generally held at the end of each term. Other students may be 

 admitted in special cases by special permission of the examina- 

 tion commission. The examination is conducted by a com- 

 mission consisting of the professors who lecture on the subjects 

 of examination, and is presided over by the director of the 

 college. 



Proof of at least four terms' study must be forthcoming on 

 the part of the candidates. Of these terms the whole number 

 may have been passed at any other agricultural college or 

 university institute ; a period of study at a technical college or 

 •university is accepted up to two terms if the subjects of study 

 have been natural and economic science. The examination is 

 partly written, partly viva voce. 



Agricultural institutes are now attached to eight of the 

 German universities. The following table gives the number 

 -of students at the university agricultural institutes for the 

 year 1902, and also the amount of State aid granted to each 

 institute : — 



1902. 



Agricultural Institute at the University of— 



Number 

 of Students. 



Amount 

 of State Aid. 



Halle 

 Jena ... 

 Kiel ... 



Breslau 

 Gottingen 



46 



75 

 196 



1,800 



935 

 6,150 



49 

 8 



235 

 2,125 



Leipsic 

 Munich 



Konigsberg ... 



60 



117 

 61 



The details of the course of instruction given at the Munich 

 university agricultural institute, which ma}/ be assumed to be 



