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STATE AGKICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
age of one hundred to one hundred and fifty pupilp, and each 
school is endowed with a regular income from the state of 
$8,000 to $12,000 according to the necessities of the locality. 
The schools of Caucasia, established since the conquest by 
the Russian government, and the agricultural society of Cau¬ 
casia jointly, are remarkable for their liberality, which in some 
cases goes quite beyond gratuitous instruction, and even secures 
to the pupils small incomes sufficient to meet all expenses of 
their education. 
Thus, at the farm school of Latschino, near Tiflis, upon the 
property of Baron IN’icolai, the instruction given in geometry, 
surveying, and the application of science to horticulture, 
arboriculture, bee culture, vine culture, silk culture, the breed¬ 
ing and rearing of domestic animals, and to general agricul¬ 
ture is not alone free ; but boarding, lodging, clothing, books, 
etc., are also gratuitous, and the pupils, (of whom the number 
is limited to twenty-two,) moreover, each receive $10 for the 
first year, $64 for the second, $72 the third, and $80 for the 
fourth and last year, for other important uses. The horticul¬ 
tural school of Tiflis^ the school of viticulture at Katcheti, the 
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school of silk culture at Stavropol, the horticultural school at 
Rhotais, and the agricultural school at Wadikarkas are also en¬ 
tirely free. 
The Russian agricultural schools of academic grade are 
entided to high rank among the best in Europe. The Agricul¬ 
tural and Forestry Academy of Retrovoskoi, near Moscow, to 
which incidental reference has already been made, as being at 
'Once the highest and most recently established, (in 1865) is 
worthy of more special notice. This institution embraces 
two faculties, one of agriculture and the other of forestry, the 
'duration of the course of study in each being fixed at three 
years. Any one, whatever his condition in life, on making 
advance payment of $10 per semester is admitted to the 
instruction furnished. Extensive buildings have been con¬ 
structed for the accommodation of pupils w^ho desire to live 
on the premises ; the price of a furnished chamber being $3 a 
month. A large restaurant, in which the dietary regulations 
