JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 

 OF ENGLAND. 



XIII. — Report on the Agriculture of the Austro-Hungarian Em- 

 pire. By John Wrightson, F.C.S., Professor of Agriculture 

 in the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. 



An empire extending from Lake Constance and the Tyrol on 

 the west to Russia on the east, and from Turkey on the south to 

 Prussian Silesia and Saxony on the north ; and further exhibiting 

 an extraordinary diversity of soil, climate, and population, must 

 needs be the theatre of many systems of agriculture. 



A ten weeks' tour through this vast empire, in a large part of 

 which a knowledge of the German, Hungarian, and Slavonian 

 languages is essential, was inadequate for more than the reception 

 of the most general ideas. 



Of the ten weeks I was absent from England, three were spent 

 at Vienna in studying the agricultural features of the Exhibition 

 (see former Report) and in making calls upon large landed pro- 

 prietors and other gentlemen. I wish particularly to mention 

 the kindness and hospitality of Sir Andrew Buchanan, the British 

 Ambassador, and the valuable assistance of Baron Schwarz, Baron 

 Kiibeck, and the English Commissioner, Mr. Cunliffe Owen. 

 Letters from Lord Granville, Lord Bloomfield (late British Am- 

 bassador at Vienna), the Secretary of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society, and other gentlemen, procured me favourable receptions 

 from many of the highest nobles of the empire, and I was pressed 

 to inspect and report upon many estates which, from want of 

 time, I was unable to visit. With funds at my disposal, more 

 introductions than I could use, and an efficient guide and inter- 

 preter in the person of Mr. G. T. Yull, who from long residence 

 in those countries was familiar with the ground and the people, 

 I was well provided with all that I required. 



Of the remaining seven weeks, one was spent partly in the 

 journeys between England and Austro-Hungary, and partly in 



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