48 Notes on Agricultural Education at Home and Abroad, 
for 1886, 7,4461., towards which 1,807/. was received from fees, 
sale of farm produce, &c. 
Denmark. 
The State has taken an active part in the promotion of 
agriculture in Denmark, as "the total sum provided in the 
Budget of the Agriculture Section for 1889-1890 is 50,680/., 
which exceeds by nearly 100 per cent, the expenditure sanc- 
tioned in 1883-1884." The remarkable strides in advance which 
Danish agriculture has recently made seem to justify this ex- 
penditure ; but the last Reports to the Foreign Office do not 
contain any special remarks as to any new development of agri- 
cultural education in that country, which has already received 
exhaustive notice in our Journal at the hands of its late editor. 1 
German)/. 
Mr. Lowther gives a very interesting analysis of the expen- 
diture of the Ministry of Agriculture in Germany. In the last 
Budget for 1889-90 the total amount voted is 571,257/., of 
which 51 ,914/., is devoted to Educational and Scientific purposes, 
and 40,400/. to the Veterinary Department. 
The State appears to maintain the High School at Berlin, the 
Agriculture Academy at Poppelsdorf, the Pomological Institutes 
at Proskau and Geisenheim, and an establishment at Wiesbaden 
for chemical experiments in connection with agriculture. The 
salaries paid at these establishments amount to 8,447/. per annum. 
In addition to these seats of instruction, there are sixteen effi- 
cient agricultural schools distributed amongst the different pro- 
vinces, the Provincial Administrations directing the course of 
study, and paying 13,100/. towards their cost, while the annual 
subsidy from the Government amounts to 6,648/. 
There are also State subventions towards the maintenance of 
laboratories where experiments find investigations of great import- 
ance to agricultural interests are carried on. In 1888 the. total 
cost of sixteen of these establishments was 14,846/. and the 
Government subsidy was 5,372/. The position and importance 
of these laboratories appear to be steadily increasing ; the inde- 
pendent revenue grows, and the Government subvention decreases. 
Here, as in Belgium, I feel that there are many matters of detail 
and of much interest to our readers which are not recorded in 
the Foreign Office Reports, and of which, unfortunately, I have no 
special knowledge. 
1 Report on the Agriculture of Denmark, Vol. XII., 2nd Series, p. 378. Sec 
also Mr. Little's " Summary " of Mr. Jenkins's Report to the Royal Commission 
on Technical Instruction, Vol. XXI., 2nd Series, p. 158. 
