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is the negotiable warrant. The farmer is bound to keep the 

 crops pledged in proper condition, and to insure them, on 

 behalf of the lender, until the loan has been repaid. In the 

 case of tenant farmers, the landowner must be apprised of 

 the transaction, and has a right of veto. The holder of the 

 warrant has priority over all other creditors (except the 

 State) in the event of the borrower's being unable to meet 

 his engagements. If the borrower fails to repay the loan, 

 the lender can have the produce sold by public auction with- 

 out further formalities. 



The classes of produce which may be thus pledged are 

 cereals, whether in sheaf or threshed, dried vegetables, 

 animal and vegetable textile materials, oleaginous seeds, 

 wines, cider, spirits, dried silkworm cocoons and cocoons 

 used for reproduction, and cut timber. 



Agricultural Inquiry in Hungary. 



In 1895 an official inquiry of an exhaustive character was 

 undertaken in Hungary, under the direction of the Ministry 

 of Agriculture, with a view to the collation of detailed 

 •statistics as to the distribution and utilisation of the cultivated 

 land, and as to the numbers and classes of live stock in the 

 Kingdom. A report has recently been published containing 

 the preliminary results of the inquiry, and from these it 

 appears that the cultivated land of the country was distri- 

 buted in 1895 as follows : — 





Arable 

 land. 



Gardens. 



Clover and 

 Grasses. 



Vineyards. 



Meadows. 



Woods and 

 Forests 





Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Acres. 



Hungary Proper - 

 Fiume 



Croatia and Slavonia 



29,684,487 

 697 

 3,367,229 



927,075 

 64 



136,221 



7,068,243 

 693 

 1,098,371 



694,095 



30 



124,495 



9,032,996 



389 

 1,464,489 



iS,445,786 

 460 

 3,73 0 -425 



Total - 



33,052,413 



1,063,360 



8,167,307 



818,620 



10,497,874 



22,176,680 



In connection with this investigation, an attempt was made 

 to ascertain the number of the principal varieties of fruit- 

 trees grown in the kingdom ; but, owing to a rumour having 

 been circulated to the effect that the trees were to be 

 enumerated for purposes of taxation, the collectors experi- 



