130 Experiment Stations in Austria. [may, 



in th3 fourth, and to £32,600 in the fifth, after which period 

 the scheme provides a surplus over purchase annuities and 

 working and administrative expenses,, eventually yielding a 

 return of 4 J per cent, on the total capital invested. It is 

 suggested that the proceeds of the Irish Quit and Crown Rents 

 might be appropriately utilised for promoting forestry in 

 Ireland ; and would suffice to finance the national scheme with 

 the exception of a sum of £13,600, which would require to be 

 annually provided by Parliament for five decades, and £8,60® 

 for the sixth decade, after which a surplus would be avail- 

 able. 



Agricultural research in Austria, owes its initiative to private 

 enterprise some 50 years ago when two experimental stations 



were established by local societies. In 

 Agricultural 1869, however, the subject was taken up 

 Experiment Stations by the Government, and two State 

 in Austria.* institutions for research in agricultural 



chemistry were founded at Vienna and 

 Gorz. Subsequently a separate station was established 

 at Vienna for agricultural bacteriology and plant diseases, 

 as well as a forestry station at Mariabrunn, an agri- 

 cultural station at Spalato, and a seed control station at 

 Vienna. These, however, did not interfere with the in- 

 stitution of private undertakings relating to special branches, 

 such as the sugar and brewing industries, or of others founded 

 and supported by provincial bodies and agricultural societies. 



The chemical station at Vienna in its earlier years limited 

 itself largely to the analysis and control of fertilisers and 

 feeding stuffs, and this still forms an important part of its 

 work, 18,370 tests of various kinds being made in 1906, as 

 well as 29,089 milk tests. Experimental investigation was, 

 however, gradually developed ; one section was devoted to 

 bacteriology, another to plant cultivation, and a sub-station,, 

 with grounds and glass-houses, was established at Kornenburg, 

 some ten miles from Vienna. In 1901, in view of the progress 

 made in Sweden and Germany in regard to the cultivation of 

 moorland, a section was established to deal with this subject, 

 and in 1904 a moor-farm at Admont was given to the station 



* Zeit. fiir das Land. Versuchswesen in Oesterreich, May, 1907. 



