The late Mr. H. M. Jenkins. 
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la-LoIr, between Le Mans and La Tours — with its 280 acres, 
Charolais oxen, Shorthorn cows, Leicester-merino sheep, and 
Yorkshire pigs. The course of instruction is specified, with a 
daily scheme of study, from 5.30 A.M. to 8.45 P.M. on each day 
of the week. The influence of the school on the agriculture of 
the district here also is reported. Other schools are described 
in same detail ; and of the special Schools, as of Forestry, 
Veterinary, Drainage and Irrigation, Shepherding, — a full 
report is also given. Then we have the duties of the depart- 
mental Professors : and the question of agricultural instruction 
in Elementary Schools, both of which, as it seems to me, have 
important English lessons in them. Lastly, we have a report of 
the Stations Agronomiques, the Concours generaux, regionaux, 
and departementaux — and the list of Agricultural Societies. 
Denmark too is reported on in some detail. The work of 
practical instruction, and of apprenticeship, the theoretical 
Schools, the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College, and 
the Agricultural Societies, are all described. Professor Jor- 
gensen and Segelcke are named as leaders in it all. 
In Belgium we have a State Agricultural Institute at 
Gembloux, with its 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year's instructions. A 
School of Veterinary Medicine at Cureghem, and special schools 
of many kinds, and agricultural stations, are described. 
In the Netherlands, the State Agricultural School at Wage- 
ningen, with its fees and costs, and plans of study ; the State 
Veterinary School at Utrecht ; and a large number of stations 
and societies are described. 
What has Mr. Jenkins to say of Great Britain ? He speaks 
indeed of the recent establishment of a Chair of Agriculture at 
the Normal School of Science, South Kensington, and of a grant ^ 
of 150Z. a year towards the endowment of a Chair of Agricul- 
ture at the University of Edinburgh ; but this is all that 
Government does for that part of the Kingdom called Great 
Britain. Not that we are without agricultural education ; and 
Mr. Jenkins gives a full and most interesting history of the 
Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, now close upon its 
jubilee, which has grown into an institution equal in thorough- 
ness and efficiency to any of those Government institutions 
which he has described elsewhere. The Agricultural College 
at Downton — also an establishment without Government aid — is 
similarly described. And a number of county schools in Surrey, 
Bedford, Devon, Dorset, Norfolk, Cheshire, Worcestershire, and 
Westmoreland are enumerated, where a certain amount of 
attention is paid to the elementary principles of agriculture. 
The Albert College, Glasnevin, is named ; and some reference 
is made to a number of Irish schools, which have been more or 
