AGKICULTURAL SCHOOLS. 
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On this point the experiences of Eyiropean countries and 
the opinion of the ablest and most enlightened scientific agri¬ 
culturists of Europe are in accord ; for, although the foreign 
schools of agriculture most widely distinguished are those 
which have model farms, it is only that they are the schools 
first established, and hence more widely known. * * * 
From among the many high authorities on this subject I 
will merely cite Baron Liebig, who, by his important dis¬ 
coveries and remarkable writings on agricultural chemistry, 
has contributed more to the progress of agriculture and of agri¬ 
cultural education than any other man, and is so justly 
deemed the highest authority everywhere. It was on his 
recommendation that I gave very particular attention to the 
agricultural institute of the university of Halle and other 
schools of its class—institutions furnished with the very best 
instruction in the mathematical, physical and natural sciences, 
as well as in literature and philosophy, by professors con¬ 
nected with great universities, and simply possessing territory 
enough for the all-important experimental station, with its 
laboratories, amphitheaters for practical lectures, experimen¬ 
tal grounds, gardens, stock-barns, etc. Under such a plan the 
out-door labor performed by the pupils is no longer mere man¬ 
ual labor, as required on the model farm, but, when performed 
at all, is an incidental part of scientific investigations, and 
never irksome to the student. Other labor than what the 
pupils of enthusiastic teachers wtll voluntarily and with zest 
perform is unnecessary^ besides being attended with positive 
embarrassment. If those who teach cannot, by their own 
example and by the expression of sentiments appreciative of 
the nobleness of industry and the dignity cf intelligent labor, 
inspire their pupils with just ideas, vain is the arbitrary law 
that condemns them to the drudgery of routine labor in the 
fields. 
The fourth question, if unqualified, may be safely answered 
in the negative, as in too many cases the interests of agricul¬ 
ture and the mechanic arts would be confined to men unac- 
quinted with and wholly unappreciative of them. -Association 
