The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-05-14

she mas Two special schools o 1nQus-
trial agriculture; she has one school
for horse shoeing; one each for silk
raising, for the raising Of bees, and
the raising of fish. She has twenty
special laboratories and Conservatives
for the education of gardeners; she
has three higher colleges and twelve
secondary schools in which the cul-
ture of the grape vine is made a
speciality. AL of these schools are
connected with model farms for the
practical education Of students. One
Of them, that of the academy Of
Proskau contains no less than 2,45O
acres Of farming land and IA, ZOO
acres of forests.
The example of Prussia has been
followed by the smaller German States.
The kingdom of Bavaria, though
scarcely more than half the size of the
State of New York, has twenty-six
agricultural colleges besides two hun
dred and sixty-nine associations for
the advancement of agricultural scien.
tifc knowledge. Besides these, the
celebrated Polytechnic school at
Munich contains a separate department
for higher agricultural instruction.
The little kingdom of Nuremberg,
so small as scarcely to reveal itself on
our school aliases, has sixteen colleges
and seventy-six agricultural associa-
tions. Among these is the celebrated
school at Hohenheim which long since
attained European fame. Saxony,
with its dense population of two mil
lions, besides the agricultural depart
ment of the University Of Leipsic
already mentioned, has four higher
colleges and twenty schools, one
veterinary college and a large number
of agricultural associations sand eve
ming schools for the instruction of
farmers Sol The Grand Duchy of
Baden, though having a population of
only a little more than a million, sus.
tains not only an Agricultural college
connected with the University of
Heidelberg but also thirteen other
colleges, four schools of gardening
and forestry, one school for horse
shoeing, one school for irrigation and
draining, and seventy-seven agricul
tural associations. Hesse Darmstadt,
whose population is less than $50, 900,
has eight agricultural colleges, besides
the agricultural department of the
University of Giessen. Oldenburg,
with a population of 800, 900, has
three colleges. SAKE Weimar, with
1900 inhabitants, has three agri,
cultural colleges and sixtyIive a~ssocia-
tons, besides a large number Of ave-.
ming schools and travelling professor
ships, and the agricultural department
in the University of Jena has fifteen
professorships supported by this little
State.
Thus, not to multiply the list of in
dividual schools, wherever we look in
Germany, we find that the utmost
care has been exercised not only to
conduct experiments, but to bring the
results of these experiments to the
knowledge of the whole mass of the
people. The German empire contains
not less than one hundred and eighty
four agricultural colleges and expert
ment stations, whose duty it is, not
only to learn all that can be learned of
the capacity of the soil and the meth
DDS of renewing and enriching it, but
to bring the results of these expert
ments to the table of every farmer in
the land.
In 1876 the twenty-fifth anniversary
was celebrated by the establishment of
the first station at Mockern. The
event brought together the agricul-
tural chemists and others interested in
advanced agriculture from all parts of
the empire. A special volume was
published in commemoration of what
had been accomplished. The bare
titles of the papers, more than 1000
in number, covered l45 pages in the
octave volume. Then, too, look at the
number of subjects that received at
tention. These papers treated Of
original researches on the influence
of the atmosphere, the weather, and
the soil on the growth. of plants; of
the physiology of plants, embracing
everything relating to the conditions
of their growth; of the diseases and
the enemies of plants; of the chemical
composition of all kinds of ~agricultu-
raj products; of the chemical compo-
sition of manures of all kinds; of ex-
periments with manures of all kinds
and on all kinds of crops; Of the com
position of the domestic animals and
their sec~retions; of the composition of
folders and foods; of the preparation
and preservation of folders; of the
digestibility of different kinds of fod-
ders; Of the production Of milk and
wood and meat; of silk culture; of
forestry; of the manufactures of butter
and cheese and sugar-in short, of
all the possible varieties of agricultural
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