1 64 HUNGARY 



is carried to an excess in Hungary, and it is not 

 surprising that one of a deputation of Essex 

 farmers who visited the country in 1902 should 

 have written : — " The impression left on the 

 minds of many of us was that the State ran 

 everything"; while a second said: — "It is 

 always a debateable question to what extent 

 State aid paralyzes individual effort, and the 

 purchase and maintenance of stallions and bulls 

 for stud purposes out of the rates would strike 

 most Englishmen as a practice bordering on 

 Communism." But, whatever doubts might 

 well arise on these questions, there is no reason 

 to question the extremely practical and thorough- 

 going system of agricultural education with 

 which the Government of the country have 

 further sought to develop the welfare of the 

 national industry. 



Though, too, the State may have done so 

 much, one must remember that to private initia- 

 tive was due the introduction of that system of 

 agricultural co-operative credit which, as I have 

 shown, constituted the "backbone" of the latter- 

 day revival. 



