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liicliicled ill this s^^stem for agricultural instruction is a system of 

 eighty model peasant farms, in as man}' counties, each equipped with 

 the implements and stock considered most suitable for its district. 

 In 181)7 there were only nine of these farms, which indicates the 

 steady growth in this respect. The government also maintains live 

 large state farms which, while primarih' intended for other purposes, 

 also serve for education and demonstration. Parties of farmers are 

 carried by the railways to these state farms at reduced fares from all 

 over the country. A great agricultural museum is maintained at 

 Budapest, whose educational value was illustrated by the interest 

 taken in it by the part}^ of practical men whom Mr. Dymond con- 

 ducted through that country. 



"The whole of this enormous scheme is supported and in most 

 cases maintained by the state. Every year further developments take 

 place, old institutions are enlarged and new institutions built, and the 

 polic}^ of the government clearly is not to wait till the demand 

 becomes imperative, but, by the provision of the fullest facilities for 

 instruction, to encourage the people to take advantage of it. In this, 

 as in every other agricultural development in Hungary, the govern- 

 ment leads the way and the people follow. . . . One important fea- 

 ture must be clearl}' impressed — that in every institution for higher 

 teaching, and even those intended for the training of peasant farmers, 

 education is associated with research, it being realized that for the 

 future of agriculture to be prosperous it is important not only to teach 

 the students what is known already, but to impress upon their minds 

 by this association how incomplete is our knowledge and how much 

 remains to be discovered." 



The sj'stem for agricultural experimentation in Hungary has been 

 described in these pages." This is comprehensive and well organized, 

 and is said to resemble the experiment station system of this country 

 more than of any European country 



The measures which are taken b}^ the government for the commer- 

 cial development of agriculture are especially interesting, both from 

 the methods followed and the success which has attended them. The 

 Hungarian government has not hesitated to foster by direct financial 

 aid farming in an}^ depressed part of the country, or any branch of 

 agricultural industry that is capable of development, even to the 

 point of embarking on industrial enterprises itself. In proof of this 

 may be cited the government ownership of the principal railways, 

 and of silk, hemp, flax, sugar, and many other factories in connection 

 with the state farms, the ownership and management of over three 

 million acres of forest, and the carrying on "to the highest possible 

 advantage " of 163,466 acres of land in its five great state farms. 



«E. S. E., 18, p. 4. 



