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VI. AGRICDLTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING OF SWEDEN.
(à 20th) year and be able to show a certain degree of preliminary knowledge on
the subject, equal to that acquired at the People’s High Schools, and to have
besides devoted at least one year’s work to the pursuit of agriculture.
The Agricultural High Schools at Ultuna and Alnarp are de
signed to afford higher instruction in the principles underlying the
exercise of farm-management. The course of instruction is a two years’
one. Candidates for entrance must be at least 18 years of age, have
had at least one year’s practice as farmers, and possess a certain degree
of preliminary knowledge, corresponding to the final examination at &
Technical College (see p. 346), or to the course given in the upper sixth
class on the scientific line at the State Colleges.
The Alnarp Agricultural High School.
The subjects of instruction at the High Schools are: a) Fundamental
subjects: Practical Mathematics, Mechanics, Physics, Meteorology, Chemistry, Geology,
Botany and Zoology, the Anatomy and Physiology of Domestic Animals,
Field-surveying with Leveling and Drawing; b) Chief subjects: Agriculture, Study of
Domestic Animals, Dairy-farming, Machine, Implement, and Building construction,
the Theory of Agricultural Economy, and Book-keeping; c) Subordinate subjects:
Care of Domestic Animals in Sickness, Forestry, Gardening, Political Economv,
Financial Law, and the Laws on the communal self-government.
The instruction is given by Lectors, Adjuncts, and Assistant Masters. One
of the Lectors is appointed by the Government to be Warden (Rector) for a space
of five years and he has to superintend and preside over the High School. The
farm work is conducted by a Steward under the superintendence of the Board
of Directors; it is his duty to Remonstrate to the pupils the different features of
the work being pursued on the estate. The High School itself and the
management of the estate are under the supervision of the said Board, which is appointed
by the Government.
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