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instruction ; these latter being subdivided into schools with 
both winter and summer courses and winter schools. The 
instruction in these schools is intended to spread technical 
knowledge among the peasant class, for the education ot 
future farm-~-bailiffs, etc., and to provide instruction for town 
students who are desirous of devoting themselves | to 
agriculture. The farm-schools have a course of it to 2 years 
and the winter schools of two terms. There are in Prussia 
26 farm-schools with about 1,000 scholars 5 in Bavaria, 3 
in Saxony, 2 in Weimar, ‘and 6 others in different States, 
making a total of 42 for the whole of Germany. Of winter 
schools there are in Prussia 118 (with 4,000 students), 21 in 
Bavaria, 12 in Baden, g in Hesse, 8 in Wiirtemberg, 6 in 
Saxony, 4 in Oldenburg, 10 in Alsace. Lorraine and 2 else- 
where ; or atotal of 195 for the whole of Germany. ae 
Besides these educational establishments Ol _ general 
character, mention may be made of a number of schools for 
instruction in special subjects ; such as management of grass 
land, gardening and fruit culture, dairying, domestic 
economy, farriery, bee-keeping, cattle-breeding, book- 
keeping, distilling and brewing, as well as rural continuation 
schools. Numerous travelling teachers, supported by 
agricultural unions or chambers, visit the smaller districts 
and give advice and information to the peasants. 

CULTIVATION OF GRAIN IN GERMANY. 
The report published by the ones ear Oifhigs on. che fone ne 
Germany for the year 1899 (Annual Series, No. 2523) alludes, 
to the cultivation of cereals in that country. As compared 
with 1893, the area under wheat and rye in 1899 shows a 
decline; and in spite of an increase in population amounting 
to 84 per cent.—z.c., from 50,750,000 to 55,000,090—-the 
cultivation of cereals has not kept pace with the require- 
ments of the population. | wae ae 
Mr. Consul-General Schwabach, commenting. on. this 
subject, mentions that since the reimbursement of: the. duty 
(San ee 
