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Agricultural Education in Hungary, [may, 



theoretical and practical training. The work at these colleges 

 is not limited merely to teaching, but includes also experiments 

 and research. Three of the colleges take a limited number of 

 boarders at 40 crowns (33s. 4^.) a month, and this privilege 

 is much sought after by the less well-to-do students, but the 

 remaining students board and lodge in the neighbourhood. The 

 charge for tuition is only about £4 a year, and scholarships are 

 provided for students without the necessary means. Students 

 who have passed the concluding examinations of the secondary 

 school course are admitted for the full course, which extends 

 over three years ; but adults and students from the higher 

 schools can attend any special courses they may wish. 



Theoretical instruction is given in the morning, and the 

 afternoon is reserved for laboratory and practical work. 

 Excursions extending over eight to ten days are arranged in the 

 summer for the purpose of inspecting well-known estates and 

 factories. In the first year, 12 hours' instruction are given 

 weekly in chemistry, physics, botany, mineralogy, geology and 

 physiology ; and three complete days in each week are devoted 

 to work in the fields, gardens and vineyards. In addition, the 

 students are entrusted with the supervision of various parts of 

 the work of the farm, and are required to make written reports , 

 and to keep a diary. In the second year, 23 hours weekly are 

 devoted to instruction, particularly in regard to cultivation, 

 breeding, machinery, plant-pathology, horticulture, viticulture, 

 &c. In the third year, the instruction takes a more economic 

 character, and includes estate management, political economy, 

 the principles of public administration, veterinary science, 

 forestry, &c. At the end of each school year, the students 

 undergo an examination for admission to a higher class. 

 Diplomas are awarded at the end of the complete course. 



The Ministry has established in connection with each of the 

 colleges a chemical experimental station, a seed station, a 

 meteorological observatory, an experimental field for the 

 cultivation of plants, and a botanic garden. At some of the 

 colleges there are, in addition, stations devoted to dairying, 

 tobacco cultivation, distillation, machinery trials, and plant- 

 pathology. At each of the colleges, a consultative committee, 

 composed of the officers of the college, gives advice to farmers. 



