AGRICULTUEAL SCHOOLS. 
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branches of study are taught as thoroughly as the time will 
allow: Practical geometry ; general meehanics; agrieultural 
implements and machinery general and agricultural chem¬ 
istry ; eliraatology; mineralogy; knowledge of soils, (Boden- 
hunde’^ the anatomy and physiology of plants; orchard, 
kitchen, garden, grape and hop culture; forestry; zoology ; 
anatomy and physiology of domestie animals; general and. 
special breeding of domestie animals; diseases of domestie 
animals; farm management; science of valuations and book¬ 
keeping ; technology; architecture; local agricultural rela¬ 
tions and circumstances; national economy. 
The applicant for admission must be at least seventeen 
years of age, possess good moral character, and have completed 
the course of study embraced in the first seven classes of a 
gymnasium or the first five classes of a real-school, or have 
completed the entire course in an agrieultural middle-school, 
(school of second grade.) 
The Superior Agricultural School at Gratz, though one of the 
most interesting and suci'.essful that I have found in Austria— 
having courses by nine professors, in mathematics; mechanics ; 
physics ; botany ; zoology minerology; geology ; chemistry ; 
agriculture and forestry, with fine collections in natural history 
etc.; a silk-worm house and a beautiful botanical garden— 
likewise embraces a school of mines and belongs rather to the 
class of polytechnic schools, of which notice will be made in a 
subsequent section. It is also true of a large proportion of 
the schools more recently established, including those of 
secondary grade, that they exist in connection with either gen¬ 
eral instruction or with other special courses or schools. 
Special Austrian schools of forestry are found at Maria- 
brunn, near Vienna, and at Schemnitz; neither of which, 
however, is very noted. 
PRUSSIAN SCHOOLS. 
In number the Prussian schools of agriculture have far out¬ 
stripped those of Austria; the total of different grades being 
over fifty, while the latter power numbers not to exceed forty. 
