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Only eight or nine are of superior grade, however, and most 
of these are more or less intimately connected with univer¬ 
sities ; as, for example, the ancient school of Mogelin, near 
Potsdam, whose director is at the same time the leading pro¬ 
fessor of agriculture in the university at Berlin; the Academy 
of Agriculture and Forestry at Eldena, connected with the 
university at Greifswald; the agricultural institute of the 
university of Halle; and the agricultural institute at Wieden? 
connected with the old university of Gottingen, (also Prussian 
since 1866). 
Those of Mogelin, Eldena and Wieden are located upon 
large farms; while the institute at Haile occupies but twenty- 
five acres, merely enough for experimental uses. 
Besides the different kinds of schools, Prussia abounds in 
what are called experimental stations, the object of which is 
to settle various scientific and practical questions connected 
with agriculture. 
SAXONY. 
Saxony comes next in chronological order, with its Academy 
of Forestry and Agriculture at Thalandt, near Dresden, 
founded in 1811. This institution was at first almost exclu¬ 
sively a school of forestry, but now incorporates agricultural 
instruction as well. The term of study is either two or three 
years, at the option of the pupils. The instruction is given 
by nine able professors, and embraces the usual branches 
tauglit in such institutions, with an unusual frequency of 
excursions into the forest and the best agricultural districts of 
the kingdom. 
Besides the school at Tharandt, there are four agricultural 
schools and departments of schools in Saxony. 
In both France and Wurtemburg there were established 
agricultural schools of the isolated and independent type, in 
1818—the French institution by Dombasle, on his estate at 
Koville, and the Wurtemburg school at Hohenheim, near 
Stuttgart. 
The first named, after many years of heroic effort, was 
finally discontinued in 1848 as a private institution, and con- 
