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STATE AGEICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
gardening, in orcharding, in meadow husbandry, in sheep 
husbandry, etc. And more recently there has been estab¬ 
lished a course of three weeks in autumn, (during the summer 
vacation in the common schools and the farm schools of the 
kingdom,) for the better instruction of school-teachers in the 
general principles and practice of agriculture. The number 
of those who may be admitted to this course is limited to 
twenty-five, and only those are entitled to enter who have 
shown by their personal labors, either on their own or on the 
school-house grounds, a disposition to promote the adv^ance- 
ment of agricultural education. 
Again, in addition to these regular courses of instruction, 
such occasional or extraordinry courses are opened and con¬ 
ducted from time to time as the exigencies of industry or of 
the civil service of the state seem to require. In all of these 
ways the academy occupies a very wide field, and by its great 
usefulness to the state has acquired a marked influence, not 
only in the kingdom of Wurtemberg, but in all the countries 
of Europe. 
The immediate management of the whole institution, in all 
its branches, as well as of the farm,' garden, experimental ^ 
grounds, and all else connected with it, is intrusted by the 
government to a director, assisted by a secretary, a treasurer 
and book-keeper, an overseer for the institute', a farm assistant, 
a house-master, a postmaster and a telegraph operator; which 
last also serves the public at large, the post and telegraph 
offices for Hohenheim station being-in, and in a certain sense 
a part of, the institution. 
The instruction is given by the director and twelve other 
professors, in charge of the following general departments, to 
wit: Mathematics, natural science, theory and practice of 
agriculture, practical forestry, forest economy, state forestry, 
agricultural technology, political economy, rural architecture 
and the draughting of plans. 
The instruction in the academy is given by lectures, by 
demonstrations, by excursions, and in connection with actual 
practice in the field and forest. 
