386 AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN GERMANY. 

AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN GERMANY. 
The position of agricultural educ ation in Germany forms 
the subject of an article in a work on German agriculture 
prepared for the Paris Exhibition by Dr. H. Thiel, Director 
of the Ministry of Agriculture. In this it is stated that 
higher instruction in agriculture is provided by agricultural 
institutes at eight universities—viz., Breslau, Giessen, Gottin- 
gen, Halle, Kiel, Konigsberg, [tie and Rostock ; by 
agricultural high schools attached to three universities—viz., . 
Jena, Bonn, and Berlin; by the Agricultural Department re 
the Munich High School, and by the Agricultural Academies 
at Hohenheim (Wiirtemberg), and Weihenstephan (Bavaria). 
The number of students at establishments of this class in 
Prussia amounted at the end of 1898 to {,123. At all the 
higher agricultural centres an examination is held at the end 
of a three years’ course for a certificate for teachers of agri- 
culture. At the end of the two years’ course, which is largely 
attended by school teachers and by agents of iarge landowners, 
there is also an examination. | 
Courses are also held at many of the institutes for practical 
farmers. These last for one week only and comprise some 
twenty-five to thirty lectures on agriculture, natural science, 
law, and other subjects which have an actual interest for prac- 
tical agriculturists. The evenings are frequently given up to 
discussion, which provides an opportunity for the further ex- 
change of opinions between the HEPES SIRES of science and 
practice. 
Intermediate agricultural education is provided by six- 
teen agricultural schools. in Prussia, which have about 
2,000 scholars. They are intended to provide the sons of 
well-to-do farmers with instruction of a technical as well as 
a general character. The schools are not State schools, but 
receive grants from the State and certain corporate bodies. 
Besides the above there are six schools of a similar character 
in other parts of Germany. 
Elementary agricultural education in Germany includes 
the instruction given in farm-schools (coinprising both 
theory and practice) and schools for purely theoretical 
