Agricultural physiology : review / [Signed C].

Date:
[1850?]
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Credit: Agricultural physiology : review / [Signed C]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    11 tli.—Geometrical drawing. 12th—Physics, as applied to agriculture. 13th.—Chemistry, as applied to the analysis of soils, manures, &c. 14th.—The general principles of mineralogy and geology. 15tli.--Domestic medicine, applied to the use of husbandmen. The professors are paid by Government; and the pupils pay from £36 to £48 a-year, according to the classes attended. In most parts of Germany, institutions for the improvement of agriculture have been founded, and are supported by the State, In Prussia, there is an Agricultural Academy, with a public Model Farm attached, in almost every province. There is a College about forty miles from Berlin, founded by the late king, with a Model Farm of 1200 acres. In the kingdom of Wurtemberg, near Stuttgard, there is an Agricultural College with a Model Farm of 1000 acres, to which are attached twelve Professors, who deliver Lectures on Mathe¬ matics, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Technology, Tillage, and other departments of Rural Economy, Forestry, and the Veter¬ inary Art. In Bavaria, the large domain attached to the Royal Palace of Schlessheim has been given up for a Model Farm. In several other countries of Europe, we find Agricultural Institutions, established and supported by the State, devoted to the encouragement and improvement of the practical and theo¬ retical parts of the science. Let this information stir up a spirit of rivalry among all interested in the progress and prosperity of British agriculture. Let there be a properly conducted Model Farm on every large estate; and since Government seems indisposed to come to then