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Twelve treatises on dairying, in which the most important 

 questions of the day relating to dairy matters are discussed, 

 have been published for circulation. (7) Foreigners wishing to 

 start dairy factories or companies apply to the department, and 

 have localities allotted (? indicated) them by it. The depart- 

 ment also holds it to be a duty to assist such people with the 

 best advice until they become acquainted with the local condi- 

 tions. (8) It is probable that the police control of the milk 

 trade in all the towns of Hungary will be organised according 

 to the suggestions tendered by the department, (9) The de- 

 partment has been the means of providing a central depot for 

 the sale of dairy machinery and appliances, by inducing an 

 eminent firm of manufacturing engineers (Stefan Rock, Buda 

 Pesth) to make this a special branch of its business. (10) The 

 following special measures of State assistance may be men- 

 tioned — cheap railway transit, the manufacture of a special 

 quality of salt at the State saltworks ; and a bill dealing with 

 butter substitutes, drafted by the department, is under con- 

 sideration. (11) Under the auspices of the department, a dairy- 

 man's benevolent society has been founded. 



It will be difficult to point to any country or province in the 

 agricultural world which has created a department calculated to 

 be of such use as that which has been formed by the Hungarian 

 Government. From what we learn, Mr Egan is the right man 

 in the right place, having a perfect mastery of the subject which 

 he is appointed to direct, and making the very best uses of his 

 knowledge, and of the powerful means which are at his disposal 

 in the interests of the dairy farming community of his country. 

 So far, we have never heard one word in this country respecting 

 this really extraordinary and liberal national scheme, and yet 

 the above indicates that a people, who have been almost sup- 

 posed to be outside the fringe of the modem dairying system, 

 have actually adopted a course which is distinctly in advance of 

 anything we are doing in more advanced agricultural countries. 

 The lesson is a good one, and should be taken to heart. It 

 once more shows the nature of the tremendous effort which Con- 

 tinental people are making to advance with the times, and to 

 fight for their agricultural existence. 



Mr Stefan Rock, whose name is mentioned by Mr Egan, sends 

 us various examples of dairy appliances and engineering litera- 

 ture which fully support Mr Egan's remarks. They are pre- 

 pared in different languages, and the illustrations show that not 

 only are the best appliances which we know in Great Britain 

 used in Hungary, but many others which we have not as yet 

 seen in this country. In a word, in spite of what has been done 

 during the past few years, we have not outstripped the Hun- 

 garians, from whom we may take a lesson. 



