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.