At Hohenheim, in the kingdom of Wirtemberg, two leagues from Stuttgard, an old palace has been appropriated as an agricultural college. The quantity of land attached to the institution is about 1000 acres. The pupils are of two grades, and those belonging to the su perior class pay for their board 150 florins, and for their instruction 300 florins a year, or altogether 371., and extra expenses make the annual cost about 501. Natives of Wirtemberg are admitted at a lower rate than the sub jects of other states. The higher class of students do not, as at Grignon, take part in the actual labours of husbandry, but the means of theoretical instruction are very complete. Lectures are deli vered by twelve professors on the follow ing subjects :—Mathematics and physics, chemistry and botany, technology, tillage and other departments of rural economy, forestry, and the veterinary art. The lectures are so arranged that they can be either attended in two half-years of three or four. In the former case much pre liminary information must have been acquired. There is attached to the insti tution a small botanical garden ; a mu seum of zoological, botanical, and mine ralogical objects ; skeletons of domestic animals ; collections of seeds and woods; and a library of works on rural economy. The establishment also comprises a ma nufactory of beet-root sugar, a brewery, a distillery of potato-spirit, and there is an apartment devoted to the rearing of silkworms. A part of the farm is re
served for experiments. The second class of students do the manual labour, but they are nearly maintained at the expense of the institution, and, when they can be spared from field-labour, they have the opportunity of attending the lectures at the college.
In Bavaria the king has given up the domain attached to the royal palace of Schleissheim for the purposes of a model farm ; but a great mistake has been made in selecting land much below the average standard of fertility, which, as well as land of extraordinary productiveness, should be avoided. It is on a much in ferior scale to the establishment at Ho henheim. In 1840 there were twenty one scholars who paid about 15/. a year, and eleven who paid about 61. The latter are merely field-labourers ; and those who belong to the upper class are of about. the Caine grade as the second class at Hohenheim.
There are agricultural institutions sup ported by the state at Vienna, Prague, Pesth, and various other places in the south-east of Europe. ( On public Insti tutions for the Advancement of Agricul tural Science, by Dr. Daubeny • Journals of Royal Agric. Soc. of England; Dr. Lindley's Gardener's Chron. and Agric. Gazette, &c. &c.)