Agricultural Schools in Europe (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Agricultural Schools in Europe Connection of the Institute with the University. - The institute is an integral part of the university at Jena, and is under the same government. The director and most of the professors are also connected with the university, those who inter the institute for farmers are matriculated as students at the university, and attain thereby all the rights, and assume also all the responsibilities of academical students, the same as in any other department of the university. The advantages which the institute gains through the union with the university, pertain in part to the means of instruction, and in part to the spirit of the academical life. To the means of instruction of the university which the members of the institute can enjoy, belong, besides the lectures on those parts of natural science and political economy which are not to he had in an isolated institute, and the lectures upon mathematics, philosophy, history, general law, See., the library, the botanical garden, the mill era logical museum, the zoological cabinet, the observatory, the gymnasium, the riding, swimming and boxing schools, &c., In consequence of the use of these means of instruction, the institute stands in an independent relation with the university, which secures it great advantages, yet far more important is the more intimate connection with it, that is, the necessity that its instruction of the same principles should be more general and comprehensive, and fundamentally scientific, like that of the university, that the institute, through an intimate sympathy in the emulation of the university students, and in connection with them should realize the idea of German university life, and thereby advance the higher education of students in agriculture and political economy. Objects of Instruction. - The sciences useful to the farmer which the institute teaches, are as follows: - 1. Sciences relating to the branches of agriculture. Sciences bearing on the cultivation of agricultural plants, in its whole range, as climate, soils, cultivation, tillage, manuring, seed, after-culture, harvesting, culture of grains, mercantile and fodder plants, fruits, &c., About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.