Dec. 1895.] GENERAL AGRICULTURAL NOTES. 33S 



swine in Bulgaria at that date is shown in the following 

 table : — 



Animals. 



No. 



Horses 



Cattle >.---- 



Sheep 



Swine 



343,946 

 1,767,974 

 6,868,291 



461,635 



Of the horses enumerated above about 60,000 were used for 

 draught purposes and 83,000 for riding. The cattle included 

 630,000 oxen and nearly 800,000 heifers and calves ; there were 

 also 124,000 buffaloes and 120,000 buffalo cows. The number 

 of mules in Bulgaria in 1893 was stated to be 8,200 and of asses 

 81,600. 



The number of poultry was returned at 3,427,000, the greater 

 proportion being fowls, the number of which was given as 

 2,860,000. The remainder included 300,000 geese, 166,000 

 turkeys, and 95,000 ducks. 



I Agricultural Schools in Holland. 



The Board have received through the Foreign Office a 

 despatch from Her Majesty's Minister at the Hague, in which it 

 is stated that a supplementary credit of 7,464?. is demanded by 

 the Dutch Minister of the Interior towards the intended 

 reorganisation of the Government School of Agriculture (Rijks- 

 landbouwschool). 



A suggestion having been made in the Committee of the 

 Second Chamber that the above-mentioned school might with 

 advantage be suppressed, the State confining itself to granting 

 subsidies to Communal and private agricultural schools, the 

 Minister, in an explanatory statement, replied that private 

 initiative had proved inadequate to provide for the object in 

 view. The State School of Agriculture will, therefore, be 

 maintained, reorganised, and supplemented by a State School 

 for Horticulture (Rijkstuinbouwschool), both to be located at 

 Wageningen, but to be kept entirely apart, except from an 

 administrative point of view. 



Among the modifications proposed is the creation of a class 

 for Indian or tropical husbandry. It is likewise intended that 

 in the technical instruction given to the pupils being trained for 

 the forest department in the East Indies, account should be 

 taken of those pupils who wish to qualify for forestry at home. 



A two-years' course of scientific instruction in kitchen- 

 gardening (warmoezerij) and horticulture as well as winter 

 schools and classes, will also be introduced, but only when the 



