688 Agricultural Administration in Austria-Hungary. 
portaut source of revenue), together with the management of 
various religious and educational endowments. 
By these and other additions to its functions, the Ministry 
has become one of the most important of the Austrian Govern- 
ment offices, and the proper conduct of its business has necessi- 
tated its division into a presidential bureau, two sections and 
nine departments. 1 
The Ministry is housed iu a fine large building (which is 
its own property) in the Liebigstrasse, at Vienna, and according 
to the last returns had a staff of one Minister (His Excellency 
Count Julius Falkenhayn), who receives a salary of 20,000 
florins (1,606?.) 2 a year; two chiefs of sections, each with 
a salary of 10,000 florins (833/.) ; five Ministerial councillors, 
four departmental councillors, seven secretaries, seven assistant 
secretaries, and four clerks. The Horse-breeding Department 
is supervised by a separate director (Field-Marshal Lieutenant 
Count von Graevenitz), who receives 9,804 florins (81 6?.) a year, 
and the Forest Department by a Ministerial Councillor, with 
engineers and inspectors under him. The total expenditure of the 
Department for Central Administration was, in 1889-90, 23,000?. 
Its other expenditure (omitting the outlay on Crown lands and 
forests and on mines, which was much more than balanced by the 
receipts) was as follows :- • 7,700/. for the State Agricultural 
Schools and Experimental Stations, 45,600/. for various sub- 
ventions to agriculture (for general agricultural education, sta- 
tistics, shows, societies, agricultural experiments, special cultiva- 
tion, re-afforesting, stock-breeding, and the like), 42,000/. to Im- 
provement (Landescultur) Funds — i.e. funds under the control of 
the Provincial Diets, which the Minister subsidises — 58,000/. for 
river-regulation and embankments in districts where inundations 
have occurred or are threatened, 3,000/. for the destruction of the 
phylloxera, 27,000/. for the expenses of inspecting and superintend- 
ing the cultivation of the land, and 140,000/. for horse-breeding. 
There is practically nothing in the way of revenue to set 
against this expenditure, except the receipts from the State 
Horse-breeding Establishments, which amount to about 36,000/., 
and school-fees amounting to about 2,000/. ; so that the net cost 
to the State of the Agricultural Department (excluding its Forest 
1 A re-arrangement of these Departments lias lately taken place, and they 
are now not the same as reported in Parliamentary Paper No. C. 5805 of 1889. 
The particular method in which the Ministry distributes the business under its 
control is of no general importance ; but the curious in such matters may be 
referred for a full description to the Wiener Landwirthschaftliche Zeitung of 
July 24, 1889, page 446. 
4 Throughout this paper the value of the Austrian llorin in English money 
has, for the sake of convenience, been assumed to be 20d. (12 florins = 1/.). 
