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sity ; and, judging from the practical workings and invariable 
success of those I have’ visited in the different continental 
states, they are destined not only to go hand in hand with the 
agricultural schools, but to be established in many cases inde¬ 
pendently, and where it is neither practicable nor needful to 
establish a school. In most cases in Europe experimental 
stations are established and maintained at the expense of the 
government, as a necessary means of determining the prin¬ 
ciples which underlie the most successful practice, and as 
being therefore essential to the industrial developement of the 
state. It is unnecessary to remark that, their multiplication 
in the Old World, while it must tend very greatly to advance 
the science and art of agriculture throughout the world, by 
the discovery of principles of universal application, they can¬ 
not settle all the questions that must arise, since many of 
them are limited in scope by circumstances of locality, and 
can only be determined on the very spot where they arise. 
They must be established in every country, therefore, and in 
many parts of each country, as the pioneers of the profession 
of agriculture that is to be. 
^ BAVARIA. 
The first Bavarian school of agriculture was founded at 
Schleissheirn, on an estate of nearly seven thousand acres, in 
1822, but has recently been removed to the old estate of 
Weyhenstephen, near Freising, some twenty miles north of 
Munich. It occupies a farm of several hundred acres, well 
stocked with domestic animals, and appears to be in a healthy 
condition. The course of instruction embraces two years, 
and is given by six regular professors with as many assistants ; 
number of pupils usually about fifty. 
Besides this Eoyal Central School at Freising, Bavaria 
reckons eleven other agricultural schools of lesser rank, all of 
them liberally supported or aided by the state. 
IRELAND. 
The beginning of agricultural schools in Ireland was at 
Templemoyle, near Londonderry, at which place the North- 
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