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ducks, geese, and turkeys. Considerable numbers of 

 birds are being distributed throughout the country 

 with a view to improving the breed, and the Govern- 

 ment has given encouragement to the establishment of 

 killing-centres for poultry. At one alone of these the 

 weight of dead poultry despatched during the course of 

 twelve months was 1,000 tons. The poultry business 

 is to be further extended by a strong co-operative 

 society which is to concern itself with the production 

 of eggs and poultry, and the export thereof in large, 

 regular, and satisfactory consignments to other countries 

 England included. 



The progress already made in the export of poultry 

 and eggs from Servia during the course of ten years is 

 shown by the following table : 



In connection with the dairy industry, the State 

 grants a subsidy to a school of cheese-making set up 

 at Smederevo in 1903 by M. Draskovitch, a lawyer by 

 profession. It sends a certain number of young people 

 to the school each year to go through the course of 

 instructions ; and it has also sent young people to study 

 in the special cheese-making schools of Austria and 

 Switzerland. 



The advance of agriculture in Servia has not been 

 entirely due to State aid, though the list here given of 

 the directions in which such aid has been offered may 

 appear sufficiently comprehensive. There has been a 

 good deal of well-organized effort in other directions 



