EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. VIII. No. 1. 



The Hungarian National ^Millennium Expositio)!, now in progress at 

 Budapest and recently visited b}' tlie Director of this Office, contains a 

 very creditable exhibition of the history, resources, and bnsiness enter- 

 prise of a people who for 1,000 years have under great difficulties 

 maintained a lofty spirit of coui-age and independence. The agricul- 

 ture of Hungary was well represented in a large main building, witli 

 small buildings for dairying, horticulture, and forestry. It was very 

 interesting to tind liow relatively large a space had been given to the 

 exhibits of the institutions for agricultural education and research. 

 These exhibits were systematically and attractively installed, and 

 showed the methods and results of investigations by means of speci- 

 mens, apparatus, charts, and publications. The schemes of agricul- 

 tural education and the appliances for objective instruction were also 

 shown. Investigations on soil chemistry and physics and on veterinary 

 science were very prominently illustrated. Fertilizer analyses, field 

 experiments, studies in vegetable pathology and entomology were 

 among the other subjects included in the exhibits. 



The number and quality of the varieties of corn (maize) shown in tlie 

 general agricultural exhibit would probably surprise many Americans, 

 though the traveler from Vienna to Budapest is somewhat prepared for 

 this from seeing numerous fields of corn along the way. Corn is evi- 

 dently grown for the grain, and not entirely for fodder as is commonly 

 the case in (xermany. 



In an exhibit of spraying apparatus the knapsack sprayer was appro- 

 priately placed on the back of the figure of a woman. The burdens of 

 agriculture which this sex has to bear seem to increase as we go 

 eastward. Carrying a knapsack sprayer would be an easy task for 

 shoulders accustomed to bend under far heavier loads. 



The Hungarians are now giving much attention to the breeding of 

 liorses, royal patronage and encouragement being largely extended to 

 this industry. 



The experiment station movement has spread to C-erman East Africa, 

 where a station has recently been established at Usambara. The object 

 is to determine the adaptability of the country west of the Luengera 



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