tains many useful suggestions for the esta blishment of such institutions. in the Agri cultural College and Model Farm at Ciren cester the pupils receive an education at once practical and scientific, under a person thoroughly acquainted with the management of a farm, associated with a professor of che mistry, mechanics, dcc.
In Ireland the government affords direct encouragement to agricultural education through the instrumentality of the Board of National Education. The persons who are trained for the office of teachers in the na tional schools are required to attend the lec tures of a professor of agricultural chemistry. The Agricultural Seminary at Temple-Moyle, six miles from Londonderry, is one of the most successful experiments which has yet been made in the United Kingdom to esta blish an institution for agricultural education. It was founded by the North West of Ireland Society in 1827, and up to 1840 had been at tended by 418 pupils.
Such societies as the Scottish Agricultural Chemistry Association, established at the close of 1843, are very well calculated to advance the progress of scientific agriculture ; and they can be established in any district where a suf ficient number of subscribers can be obtained to command the services of a competent che mist. Associations of this nature show how much can be done in this country without any assistance from the state. Landed pro prietors who subscribe twenty shillings yearly, are entitled to have performed analyses of soils, manures, &c:, according to a scale fixed upon ; and if more than a certain number are required, a charge of one-half above the scale is made.
In England, soils are analysed at the Mu. seurn of Economic Geology, London, at a charge of one guinea. The establishment is under the superintendence of her Majesty's office of Woods and Forests.
In France there are schools assisted by the state, where young persons can obtain instruc. tion in agriculture, both practical and thee. retical. The principal institution of this kind is that at Grignon, one of the old royal palaces and the domain attached to it, con. sisting of 1,185 acres of arabld, pasture, wood, and marsh land, have been given up on cer.
tarn conditions. The professors are paid by the government, and the pupils are of two grades, one paying 481. a year, and the other :301. For the purpose of imparting theoretical knowledge, courses of lectures are given on the following subjects :-1. The rational prin. ciples of husbandry, and the management of a farm. 2. The principles of rural economy replied to the employment of the capital and hock of the farm. 3. The most approved methods of keeping farming accounts. 4. The construction of farm-buildings, roads, and im plements used in husbandry. 5. Vegetable physiology and botany. 0. Horticulture. 7. Forest science. 8. The general principles of the veterinary art. 0. The laws relating to property. 10. Geometry applied to the measurement and surveying of land. 11. Geo metrical drawing of farming implements. 12. Physics, as applied to agriculture. 13. Che mistry as applied to the analysis of soils, manures, &c. 14. Certain general notions of mineralogy and geology. 15. Domestic me dicine, applied to the use of husbandmen. Institutions designed for the improvement of agriculture, and supported by the state, have been established in most parts of Ger many. In Prussia there is a public model farm and agricultural academyin nearly every province. The most important of these in stitutions is the one at Mogeliu, in Branden burg, about 40 miles from Berlin, which was founded by the late king. The establishment consists of a college and a model farm of 1200 acres. 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 1,000 acres. Lectures are delivered by twelve professors on the following subjects: — Mathematics and physics, chemistry and botany, technology, til lage, and other departments of rural eco nomy, forestry, and the veterinary art. In Bavaria the king has given up the domain at tached to the royal palace of Schleissheim for the purposes of a model farm.
There are agricultural institutions supported by the state in several other countries of Eu rope.