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methods of co-ordinating the facts evolved into general principles. The 
statistician verified the results of his inquiries by personally visiting dis- 
tricts which showed any remarkable anomalies and opened an extensive 
correspondence with land proprietors and viticulturists in all parts of 
the kingdom. M. Keléti experienced some of the difficulties which have 
embarrassed the operations of the American Department of Agriculture, 
with the additional difficulty of having to collect his statistics largely 
through regular government officials. The tendency of cultivators to 
depreciate as much as possible the extent and value of their industry in 
the presence of those who might detail the information to the tax-gath- 
erer showed itself in all parts of the country. The lack of statistical 
ideas and habits in official inquirers, whocan only move in an established 
routine, was another source of embarrassment. Our American system 
of selecting boards of volunteer correspondents among the most intel- 
ligent agriculturists of the country, and of furnishing them blank forms 
and specific instructions, does not appear to have been suggested as a 
practical method in Hungary. 
M. Keléti was astonished at the wide divergence between the results 
of his inquiries and the current estimates of grape and wine production 
in Hungary. Some unknown authority had stated the average annual 
wine-product of Austro-Hungary at 42,000,000 hectoliters, (1,109,547,600 
gallons,) of which 22,000,000 hectoliters (581,191,600 gallons) were as- 
signed to Hungary. The approximate average annual product of the 
Hungarian monarchy indicated by M. Keléti’s inquiries is not over 
5,000,000 hectolitres, (132,089,000 gallons.) This remarkable discrepancy 
has led him to discredit the reports of enormous wine production in 
other European countries in which no sifting statistical methods similar 
to his own had been adopted. 
The kingdom of Hungary, including its vassal states of Transylvania, 
Fiume, Croatia, Slavonia, and the military frontier, cultivates about 
1,050,995 acres in vines, or about 10 per cent. more than was indicated. 
by an official census taken some years ago. The increase was in Hun- 
gary proper, Croatia, and Slavonia; the other sections indicate a de- 
crease. Hungary proper embraces 80 per cent. of the viticultural area of 
the monarchy, while its territory is less than 70 per cent.; only 11 of the 
47 vine regions indicate a declining acreage. In 5,845 communes of the 
whole monarchy there were 912,633 proprietors, averaging 1.20 acres; of 
these 4,062 communes, in Hungary proper, embraced 688,336 proprietors, 
averaging 1.15 acres. 
Jean Hunfalvy, in his valuable “ Topographical and Physical Descrip- 
tion of Hungary,” distinguishes four well-defined viniferous regions: (1) 
the region of the Alps and Carpathians; (2) isolated hills and mountains ; 
(3) the low country, (Alféld;) (4) the shores of the Adriatic and the mount- 
alnous parts of Croatia and Dalmatia. The northwestern Carpathian re- 
gion, atan altitude varying from 600 to 1,050 feet above sea-level, cultivates 
the wine only in the valleysor on southern slopes. The whole Carpathian 
region, from east to west, is of minor importance in vine-growing except a 
trachytic off-shoot to the south, extending from Eperjes to Tokay, on the 
Theiss River. Thecity lastnamed isthe market of acelebrated aristocratic 
beverage called by its name and produced in a hilly region to the north- 
ward called Hegyallia, embracing about ninety square miles. With this 
exception, the production of wines, and especially of generous wines, in 
the Carpathian region is confined to isolated hills and mountains. The 
low country (Alféld) produces an abundance of common, cheap wines for 
local consumption. Vine-growing is prosecuted to a great extent in 
Fiume, and a narrow zone of vineyards fronting the Adriatic extends 
