STATE ENTERPRISE AND STATE AID 163 



State not only stallions but the bulls, rams, and 

 boars which it also breeds, the farmers volun- 

 tarily imposing a tax on themselves to pay for 

 the cost. From the cultivated portions of the 

 extensive stud farms large supplies of selected 

 seeds are sold to farmers at a low price. 



For the encouragement of cattle-breeding and 

 dairy-farming, the State makes annual grants 

 amounting to £42,000, and it has brought about 

 the starting of 400 co-operative dairies. Sheep- 

 breeding it has sought to foster by importing 

 pure-bred English rams. There is, too, a State 

 poultry farm, covering sixteen acres of land, and 

 the Government has determined, by experiment, 

 the kinds of poultry best fitted for particular 

 districts. There is a State bee farm, intended 

 as a model for bee-keepers to follow, while bee- 

 farming is taught alike on the farm and in the 

 training schools. Finally, in the matter of 

 sericulture, the State keeps a silk-worm breed- 

 ing station, provides the public with healthy 

 eggs, propagates mulberry trees and distributes 

 several million of them every year, and even 

 buys the cocoons from the peasants who have 

 bred the silk-worms, some two dozen State 

 " cocooneries " being set up for this purpose. 



In all this there is certainly a suggestion that, 

 from an English standpoint at least, State aid 



