AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS. 
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BELGIUM AND BADEN. 
Belgium claims ten or twelve schools of agriculture, but 
most of them, are either primary, intermediate or connected 
adjunctively with communal colleges, and none of them have 
attained to any eminence. 
Baden is credited, in like manner, with six schools of agri¬ 
culture and forestry. Two of these, the agricultural school of 
the Koyal Polytechnic School of Carlsruhe being chief, are 
superior, the others intermediate or inferior. 
CENTRAL GERMANY AND OTHER PARTS OF EUROPE. 
Several of the duchies of central Germany, including, 
especially, Saxe-Weimar, whose agricultural institute of the 
university of Jena is worthy of special notice, make liberal 
provision for agricultural education ^ their schools of different 
grades numbering in the aggregate not less than thirty. 
Of the agricultural schools of other European countries 
established within more recent years, and in no way specially 
distinguished, I do not deem it important to speak in detail. ^ 
Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Spain and Portugal have each 
recognized the importance of such institutions by the estab¬ 
lishment of one or more schools, and even Greece and Turkey 
are now following the example of the other more advanced 
countries. 
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN AMERICA. 
Although, by reason of the newness of the country and the 
cheapness of fertile lands, the establishment of schools de¬ 
signed to afford instruction in the applications of science to 
agriculture was longer postponed here than in some of the Euro¬ 
pean countries, America has at last entered into the movement 
with a spirit and energy that give promise of great results. 
As early as 1837 prominent agriculturists began to agitate 
the question of creating state colleges of agriculture in the 
different states, either by direct appropriations from the public 
treasuries or by joint efforts ot the people and governments; 
but nothing was actually accomplished in this direction until 
