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AGRICULTURAL AND MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 

 Agricultural Inquiry in Hungary. 



Allusion was made in the last number of the Journal 

 (p. 350) to the agricultural inquiry undertaken in Hungary 

 in 1895, and some information was given from the first 

 volume published. Another volume, containing detailed 

 statistics of the area under cultivation and of the harvests in 

 1895 and 1896, together with comparisons for earlier years, 

 has now been received, and the following particulars are 

 taken therefrom. 



The area defined as " cultivated " in the present return is 

 nearly equivalent to what we should consider arable, and 

 includes the area under bread grains, other cereals, pulse 

 crops, industrial plants, " hoed " crops, and miscellaneous 

 crops, such as cabbages and the like. 



The total of this " cultivated " area in the entire kingdom 

 of Hungary in 1895 was 32,846,000* acres (taking the 

 hectare as equal to 2*47 acres) ; that in Hungary proper 

 being 29,467,000 acres. The agricultural statistics of 

 Croatia-Slavonia only date from 1885, whereas comparable 

 data for Hungary proper are available since 1870. Com- 

 parisons of the area and production of the whole kingdom 

 can therefore only be made with 1885 and subsequent 

 years ; all information relating to earlier periods neces- 

 sarily referring to Hungary proper only. Taking the 

 area of the latter, this has shown an almost continuous 

 increase from 24,736,000 acres in 187 1, i.e., about 19 per cent. 

 It is interesting also to note the steady decrease in the area 



* The unit of area in the first volume was the "cadastral joch" (1-42 acre); in 

 the volume under notice the hectare is used ; hence the figures in the present 

 article differ slightly from those previously given on p. 350. 



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