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eighteenth century. The influence of Von Thaer is referred 
to. Various agricultural institutions of the highest class — high 
schools or University departments — are enumerated with the 
subjects of instruction at each of them, and the statistics of 
attendance, the expenses, and results. The intermediate schools 
of agriculture, not exactly State institutions, but receiving a 
State subvention in aid of local funds, are fully described, with 
elaborate tables of attendance, of studies, and finance. And 
some account is given of the results in their neighbourhoods — 
altered rotations of crops, improved machinery, increased growth 
of fodder crops, improvement of live-stock, better manual labour. 
Winter schools and travelling lecturers are referred to — a subject 
in which we ought to be interested. Special schools embracing 
general education, as well as agriculture — Dairy Schools ; Ve- 
terinary Colleges ; Drainage and Irrigation Schools ; Gardening 
Schools ; Schools of Bee-keeping : — All these are enumerated 
and described. Agricultural experimental stations are men- 
tioned, and the work they do is related. It is certainly a very 
bright picture altogether ; and the country described may be 
congratulated. 
In France the educational system is contrasted with that of 
Germany — the great French institutions with the correspond- 
ing German approximate equivalents. Regional schools, prac- 
tical schools, shepherd schools, farm schools, agronomic stations 
are, in France, the more practical form of their more scientific 
equivalents in Germany ; and for the travelling lecturers, ' Wan- 
derlehrer,' as they are called in Germany, there are in France 
fifty-five departmental Professors. The higher French agri- 
cultural schools are described. The pupils are generally sons 
of Government officers, men who are to be Government officers, 
who are to be Professors of Agriculture, Directors of Labora- 
tories, or of Sugar-factories, or of Distilleries, Agricultural 
Engineers, and large tenant-farmers. The detail of the winter 
and summer sessions, the practical exercises, laboratory ptac- 
tice, discussions, excursions, travelling scholarships, are all 
enumerated and described in extraordinary detail — payments, 
receipts, products being specified, down to the various requisites 
which each student must bring with him, much as in our own 
boarding-schools at home — "12 shirts," "12 towels," "3 pair 
of strong boots," &c., &c. Then we have an account of the 
practical schools of agriculture under the head of " Intermediate 
Agricultural Education;" and here again terms of admission, 
subjects of instruction, number of students, domestic arrange- 
ments, &c.. are described. Under the designation of " Lower 
Agricultural Ivlucation" a number of "farm schools," so- 
called, are described ; e.g. La Pilletiere, eight miles from Chateau- 
