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over of from £21,000 to £22,000 a year. A 

 further branch has now been taken up in the 

 collection of eggs for export. Word is sent 

 week by week to the country sections telling 

 them how many eggs the department will accept 

 for two crowns (1*. Sd.). The local branch then 

 gathers in the eggs from its members, and for- 

 wards them in boxes of 1,440 to Budapest, 

 where they are examined and sorted before 

 being packed for export. The profits are di- 

 vided among the members as a bonus on the 

 agreed price already paid to them. The ex- 

 periment has been a complete success, and still 

 more country branches are being vigorously 

 organized. 



The activity shown by the Hungarian Na- 

 tional Agricultural Society in bringing about 

 these various phases of an up-to-date organiza- 

 tion is being well followed by the county agri- 

 cultural societies. On this there is much that 

 could be said, but the sphere of usefulness 

 which a county agricultural society fills in 

 Hungary could not, perhaps, be better illus- 

 trated than by the following description of the 

 work done by the agricultural society of the 

 county of Arad, as given by Mr. T. S. Dymond, 

 of the Essex County Laboratories, in a paper 

 on "Hungarian Agriculture" read by him at 



