182 Middle and Lower Professional Schools.
horticulture and fruit-growing, and for domestic economy
are the most numerous and are attended by the largest number
of pupils.
For the training of lower-class forestry officials there are in
Prussia two special schools.
Statistics on the subject of the agricultural schools in Prussia
are contained in the table on page 181.
5. The agricultural continuation schools are chiefly intended for
strengthening and extending the elementary education of the
cural population, but in some of them also technical agricultural in-
struction is given. The teaching is conducted principally in winter,
during some evenings of each week, and on Sunday afternoons. In
Prussia there were, in the year 1902, 1421 rural continuation schools
with 20666 pupils, causing an expenditure of 182236 M.
6. Some information on the general agricultural schools in the
other Federal States is supplied in the following table.
Federal State
Kingd. of Bavaria .
» Saxony .
Wiirttem-
berg .
Grand Duchy of Baden
» 2» » Hesse
Reichsland of ElsaB-
Lothringen . . .
The other Federal
States, with the ex-
ception of Prussia
Number of Agri-
cultural Schools
Schools of Agricul
cure, Farming Schools,
Agricult. Winter
Schools and simila
schools) with a
general agricult.
“urriculum in
1902/03
Ie
Number of Pupils
attending these
Schools in 1902/3.
{Only Pupils of agri-
cultural subjects are
included)
534
203
285
566
189
1 043
Number of Schools
and Pupils to every
10 000 agricult.
Estates of 12,5 acres
and more
Schools
Pupils
58,5
125.6
4
<
2%
43,2
141,5
146.9
93.9
In
194 o
Also the special schools, like those for horticulture and fruit-
growing, for dairy-farming, for domestic economy are correspondingly
represented, likewise the continuation schools, which in some of the
States have compulsory regulations.