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have left school and wish to become farm workmen, or for small 

 farmers. The various courses are carefully framed with a view 

 to consolidating and extending the education acquired at 

 school, and to giving such instruction in agricultural work as 

 will enable the pupils to understand the principal agricultural 

 processes on small farms. Intending pupils must have attained 

 their fifteenth year, and show a satisfactory degree of educa- 

 tional ability. 



Two courses are held annually. The fees are moderate, 

 amounting to about £1 5s. per course. The schools are under 

 the supervision of the Ministry of Education and Royal Bureau 

 of Trade and Commerce ; the expenditure is borne principally 

 by the State, but the communities in which the schools exist 

 'are required to stock them with furniture, and to light and heat 

 the schoolrooms. 



In addition to the instruction provided in these elementary 

 schools, provision is made for lectures to be given in villages 

 by travelling teachers and experts. These travelling lecturers 

 are to be found, not only in Wtirtemberg, but in the whole of 

 Germany. It is their duty to disseminate useful agricultural 

 knowledge in all directions, even in the most inaccessible 

 quarters, to induce the peasants and small farmers to make 

 agricultural experiments on a small scale, and to assist them 

 in doing so in every manner. Some of the travelling lecturers 

 are delegates or officials of the Chambers of Agriculture, or of 

 the larger agricultural societies, from which quarters their re- 

 muneration is drawn. 



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