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The National Geographic Magazine 



Photo from "The Balkan Trail,' 1 by Frederick Moore (Macmills.n) 

 COUNTING ANIMALS FOR MILITARY SERVICE ; BULGARIA 



ogy, physics, mathematics and natural 

 history, and law. 



The university, founded in 1887, is at- 

 tended by 700 students, among them sev- 

 eral women, who three years ago were 

 admitted on an equal footing with the 

 men. The state spends for this univer- 

 sity 500,000 francs, or $100,000, yearly. 



Every registered Bulgarian subject is 

 a free elector, and every one who can 

 read and write is eligible to all institu- 

 tions provided by the constitution. 



In appreciating the progress made in 

 Bulgaria, it must be borne in mind that 

 the country is situated within a very ab- 

 sorbing political atmosphere, which has 

 certainly been a drawback to its fuller 

 development. 



Twenty-five years ago the country had 

 recourse to foreigners for professors, en- 

 gineers, men of law, financiers, and spe- 



cialists for all the administrative 

 branches — financial, industrial, econom- 

 ical — and for the organization and com- 

 mand of public forces. Now all this 

 work is done by specially educated Bui-, 

 garians. There is not a foreigner in the 

 service of the state. 



Bulgaria is a little larger than Indiana. 

 Its area of 38,333 square miles contains 

 a population of 4,200,000. The country, 

 for its size, is mountainous. It is trav- 

 ersed by the Balkans from west to east, 

 and bounded to the west by the Rhodope 

 chain. The highest peak is 8,930 feet. 



The density of the population is 105 to 

 the square mile ; 73 per cent of the peo- 

 ple are engaged in agriculture ; 10 per 

 cent are occupied in industrial pursuits ; 

 5 per cent in commercial ; 2 per cent in 

 the professions; 2^2 per cent in the mili- 

 tary and public services; i l / 2 per cent in 



