EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. XV. February, 1904. No. 6. 



Continental State Aid for Agriculture is the subject of a pamphlet 

 recently received, which deals especially with the matter of govern- 

 ment aid in Denmark and Hungary. The author is Mr. T. S. Dymond, 

 lecturer on agricultural chemistry at the Essex County Laboratories 

 at Chelmsford, England. 



Mr. Dymond writes from the standpoint of one familiar with the 

 conditions in Hungary from personal observation and study, having 

 recently acted as conductor of a party of English farmers, landown- 

 ers, and others interested in agriculture who made a tour of that 

 country. His pamphlet will be a surprise to many as indicating how 

 liberally and along how man}^ different lines the Hungarian govern- 

 ment is lending its aid to agriculture. These various enterprises are 

 grouped under the general heads of agricultural education, experi- 

 mental and research work in agriculture, and commercial development. 



The system of agricultural education in Hungar}^ includes, as in 

 other European countries, schools of various kinds for elementary and 

 secondary instruction, as well as the higher institutions. For the sons 

 of peasant farmers there are twenty-one tillage schools which giv^e 

 two-year courses of training in practical farming, and in addition a 

 large number of winter schools of agriculture in the villages. Itiner- 

 ant instruction is also given by a staff of over two hundred traveling 

 lecturers and experts, who for the most part are attached to the agri- 

 cultural ministry. 



Of the higher institutions, the capstone of the system is the agricul- 

 tural academy at Altenburg. This ranks among the first agricultural 

 colleges of Europe, and is intended for the training of men who are 

 to fill the highest agricultural positions. There are four agricultural 

 colleges intended for the gentry or large farmers, which Mr. Dymond 

 ranks with the very best English colleges. The agricultural academy 

 has an average attendance of about 160 and the agricultural colleges 

 about 125 students each. 



The institutions for special industries include the veterinary college 

 at Budapest, "a huge and splendidly equipped institution,'' an arbori- 

 cultural college and four schools for forestry, a dairy high school and 

 four schools for dairymen and dairywomen, a horticultural college 

 and five schools for gardeners, schools for poultry farming, l)oe farm- 

 ing, and meadow culture, and a viticultural course and eight schools 

 for vine dressers. 



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