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high grade school. Most of the higher agricultural schools 
have, however, a preparatory school attached, where pupils can 
qualify for entrance by examination. 
But even this list does not exhaust the catalogue of the 
German Aericultural Schools. Below the above in rank come 
the Ackerhauscliulcn, where the instruction is more elementary, 
and where there is no question of one year's service in the army. 
Moreover, in addition to these, in all of which the instruction 
is continuous, there are vast numbers of Fortbildungsschulen 
(Improvement Schools), where the instruction is intermittent, 
being given in winter or in evenings only, as the case may be. 
Nor would it be right in this enumeration entirely to omit the 
various dairy, shoeing, and house-keeping schools, more or less 
of a special nature, but in some sense connected with the 
education of the future cultivators of the soil. 
High School, Berlin. — Of the German Agricultural Institutes, 
where purely scientific instruction is given, the first which 
demands attention is the Royal Agricultural High School at 
Berlin. " This magnificent establishment, though not com- 
plete in all its details, is sufficiently equipped to command the 
first place in an account of the German Agricultural Schools. 
Some idea of its extent may be obtained by a notice of its 
measurement. The main building is in round numbers about 
240 feet long, and 180 feet deep. The central hall, which is 
covered with glass, has a superficial area of about 1250 square 
yards, and round it the chief structure rises in three stories 
above the basement. 
" In the central hall is a very complete collection of agricultural 
implements, all of which are lent by the makers, who remove 
them from time to time, in order to replace them with others 
combining their most recent improvements. The machinery 
in this hall can be set in motion and worked by steam power 
through shafting and pulleys which traverse it. On Saturday 
afternoons it is not unusual to have an exhibition of threshing 
and other power-driven machines exhibited in motion." 
The Botanical, Zoological, Zootechnical, and Mineralogical 
Collections of this establishment are very complete ; for instance, 
the Botanical Collection includes no less than 2600 specimens 
of woods, and over 18,000 specimens of different sorts of corn, 
seeds and fibres. The ample laboratory accommodation is a 
great feature, no less than thirteen apartments being devoted to 
the prosecution of studies and researches in morphological and 
physiological botany. 
The names of many of the professors in this Institution are 
well known to scientific circles in England, and it is needless 
to say that the lectures are of a high standard. The fees 
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