1 88 Agricultural Education in Germany. 



similar to that given at the seven other institutes, are as 

 follows : — 



First year : National economy ; experimental physics ; inorganic experimental! 

 chemistry including the elements of physical chemistry ; organic chemistry ; miner- 

 alogy ; crystallography; general botany; special and systematic botany; com- 

 parative anatomy of domestic animals ; general zoology ; embryology and development 

 of domestic animals. Optional : Chemical laboratory ; microscopic laboratory ;. 

 technical drawing. 



Second year : Geology ; chemistry and knowledge of soils ; meteorology and 

 climatology ; physiology of animal organisms I. ; nutrition of plants ; general field 

 and garden cultivation ; meadow cultivation ; diseases of garden and field plants ;. 

 contagious diseases of animals ; agricultural machines and tools; plant nurseries. 

 Optional : Physiology of animal organisms II. ; agricultural bacteriology ; agricul- 

 tural-chemical laboratory ; microscopic laboratory ; practical zootomic work :-. 

 experimental agriculture (practical) ; valuation of soils ; poultry breeding. 



Third year : Special plant cultivation ; feeding and fodder ; general breeding and 

 hygiene; special breeding; agricultural management; agricultural technology I. 

 (fermentation industries, sugar and starch manufacture) ; agricultural technology II. 

 (dairies) ; drainage and irrigation ; agricultural constructions. Optional : Pisci- 

 culture ; land reclamation ; moor cultivation ; agricultural calculations and estimates 5' 

 agricultural experimentation ; agricultural laboratory and agricultural-chenm al 

 laboratory ; practical demonstrations on the experimental plots and estate and in the 

 dairies ; further in-breeding ; practical agricultural civil engineering. 



Special advanced lecture courses for owners, managers,, 

 agents and farmers &c, have been introduced during 

 the past few years at several of the Prussian agricultural 

 colleges and university institutes, and also in Saxony, 

 Hesse, Wiirtemberg and other German States. They consist 

 of a course, which is held during a week in winter, of from 

 twenty-five to thirty lectures, dealing with the progress made 

 during the past year in agricultural and natural science, in 

 jurisprudence, political enonomy, and in all other subjects, 

 which are of interest and importance for owners, managers and 

 farmers. The idea seems an excellent one ; the owners, farmers, 

 and managers travel to the college, remain for a week, and 

 return to their estates after having attended the course of 

 lectures and fully informed themselves of the annual progress 

 made in all subjects bearing upon their profession,. During the 

 evenings discussions are arranged and thereby opportunities 

 afforded for a useful interchange of opinion between practical 

 agriculturists from the country and theoretical agriculturists 

 from the colleges. Many high officials in the different adminis- 

 trative branches, for whom a knowledge of agricultural affairs is. 



