the Farming of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. 379 
1)een carried out on an extensive scale, and with great success. 
The system pursued is similar to that already described in my 
Report on Sweden. A certain number of farms distributed 
throughout the country are registered by the Society as places to 
•which pupils can be sent. The pupils are expected to work in 
i the same manner and to the same extent as the hired labourers, 
and thus earn their living and a small wage besides. There are 
four classes of pupils, viz.: (1) Agricultural; (2) Draining; 
■(3) Dairy management ; (4) Practical dairying. 
According to the Society's Report for the year 1872, there 
were 77 farms at which agricultural pupils were received to the 
number of 170, of whom 127 remained at the close of the year. 
I Some of these were one-year students, some two years, and 
others three years, the numbers of each grade not differing very 
remarkably. The payment to the pupils is 3/. 6s. 9(/. the first 
I year, 4/. the second, and 4Z. 9s. the third. After the third year 
they may obtain the Society's diploma, and the most successful 
receive a grant in aid of a journey to Scotland or some other 
country. During the year 1872 nearly 150/. was thus spent by 
the Society. Instruction in dairy-management was given in 1872 
on 11 farms to 20 pupils, of whom 15 remained at the end of 
the year. Practical dairying was taught at 17 farms in that 
jear to 26 pupils, of whom 14 were continuing their course of 
j instruction at the close of the year. The course of instruction 
in the dairy classes is of two years' duration, and the Society 
pays the head dairymaid 4Z. 9s. for each pupil. 
I The Society was established in 1769, and its educational 
efforts commenced in 1820 with the agricultural farm-schools ; 
and the success of the movement, especially after the first 
■decade, led to the establishment of the system for teaching prac- 
I tical dairying in 1836. Thus by the aid of the above figures, 
the influence which the Society has exercised upon the agricul- 
ture of the kingdom may be estimated. Taking an average of 40 
instructed young farmers, 10 practical dairymen, and 12 or ] 4 
thoroughly competent dairymaids, added annually to the agri- 
cultural ranks of a population numbering only a million and 
three-quarters, and continued for a series of years, the result must 
■j be to produce a certain uniformity of practice throughout the 
country. The practice will be good, bad, or indifferent, accord- 
ing to the nature of the precept and example put forward at the 
schools ; and the preceding pages will doubtless lead English 
readers to infer that while the dairy-schools have been an enormous 
benefit to the country, the system of husbandry taught at the 
farm-schools has interfered with their successful advancement 
I of Danish agriculture. 
