The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-06
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS IN pRrss1.

AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS IN PRUSSIA.
The Prussian Agricultural establishments as we
learn from an intelligent correspondent of the
Country Gentleman, are both public and private
There are four public Agricultural Academies to
instruct young farmers who have some knowledge
OF physical science, and their bearing on agrcul-
ture. They are provided with laboratory, libra
ry, collections of natural history and philosophy,
and building for the practical business of hus-
bandry. Land is attached to them for experiments
In manures, plants, &C., which conducted with
view to improve actual practice as well rs for the
advance of science.
The Oldest of these academies is at Eldena in New
CIterior Pomerania. Out of 1850 Prussian acres
which are nearly equivalent, we believe, to our
own, LOO are devoted to cultivation as a farm-314
are In meadow, 40 in pasture, 10 in garden and hops
= IN ponds, II in an experimental field, 2 or in
nursery, and the remaining so acres are rented.
Space cannot be afforded for figures; but it must
sufhce to be told, that stock of all Sorts and in
large numbers, is reared there in abundance, and
that great quantities of malt, bricks tile are pro-
duced. There is also a great beer brewery, and a
small distillery merely for the instruction of the
pupils. There is a director, who is also teacher
OF economy and statistics, and instructors beside in
agriculture, farm management and book keeping;
In chemistry, physics, soil and technology; and the
administrator of the farm who instructs in this i'm
portant branch, necessary to the success of all the
Others and also in the breeding cattle and sheep
1t comprises also teacher in botany, zoology and
physiology of plants; assistant in veterinary
science, physiology of animals and breeding of
wood
land third IN architecture; fourth in mathemat-
les and surveying; fifth in law as connected with
agriculture. The number ofstudents last winter
tifty-four.
Such is an imperfect sketch OF one of these pub
lie academies. We have given few particulars AS
suggestive, and shall not pretend to 90 into details
with respect to the other three because it is not
our design much to describe these institutions as
to let our community know, that it is far hehind
the contracted territory OF Prussia in good many
valuable things, and particularly in the teaching
and promotion of the science and practice of agri-
culture, to say nothing of almost every elegant and
useful art, excepting that of government.
The second OF the academies occupies 4, 100 acres
of public domain, called Proskau The third is
situated near Bonn and is called Popplelodorf
This farm consists of one hundred and twenty-six
acres. Tobacco is cultivated here, and the techn-
cal professions are not carried on Here is botap
ical garden, vineyard, seventy students and six
teachers, including the director. Near Conigs-
nerg .i fourth academy was opened a year ago
acres. Fifty students were instructed here in the
session of last winter.
Besides these public academies are two private
agricultural academies receiving State support
Then come the private agricultural schools as they
are called, which are nevertheless supported and
controlled by government. Everything on the conti-
nent must be done for the governed by the govern
ment This makes all establishments there entirely
different from those of the United States These
schools are eighteen in number generally with six
to eighteen students each situated in various parts
of the kingdom.
One of them is in Saxony, where the peasants are
more wealthy, and is of an intermediate class be-
tween the academies and the schools 1t has from
sixty to eighty students, and occupies 1900 acres
Other institutions exist, having scholars devoted to
some of the diversified studies connected with agri-
cultural industry, and one in particular where 200
are employed for experiments in sheen culture
and for the instruction of shepherds On the whole,
agriculture, in all its departments seems to be in
telligently taught and most vigorously encouraged
in the dOminions of Prussia at the present time,
keeping pace with the cultivation of the art of
war. Prussia is province compared with the
United States-area of three millions of square
miles-yet where is there throughout its vast space
one agricultural seminary worthy to be mentioned
with the poorest that has been described?-N NerarE
DdilB AdUertissr