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The Ministry at present manages 3,310,000 acres. Special 
attention is paid to a rational management of woods and forests. 
The annual revenue to the State from forests is about 350,000?., 
and the expenditure 300,000/. 
The State mines show a great development, and their profits 
have increased from 63,000/. in 1879, to 160,000/. in 1888. The 
output of coal increased during the same period from 84,721 to 
395,582 tons ; silver from 04,515 to 77,100 lbs. ; copper from 1,038 
to 6,428 cwts. ; zinc from 6,092 to 24,736 cwts. ; quicksilver 
from 7,512 to 9,616 cwt. The annual revenue to the State from 
mines is about 550,000/., and the expenditure about 450,000/. 
The Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture. 
A Department for the supervision of agricultural matters in 
the Kingdom of Hungaiy was established at Buda-Pesth in 1869, 
but it was only last year that it was erected into a separate 
Ministry under Count Julius Szapary. Up to that time it had 
formed part of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, from 
which it was formally separated by Government decree of 
June 15, 1889. The Ministry is divided into four chief sections : 
Forestry (with subsections for the Royal forests, general forest 
arrangements, forests under arable cultivation, forest inspection) ; 
horse-breeding ; police (including rural police, veterinary 
matters, phylloxera, statistics) ; agriculture (including agricul- 
tural education, general agriculture, cattle-breeding) ; river and 
water regulation. 1 
The Budget of the Department for 1891 gives the total 
expenses as 1,100,000/., or an increase of nearly 50,000/. over the 
previous year. The chief items of this expenditure are : Central 
administration, 24,000/. ; improvement of agriculture in dif- 
ferent branches, 37,500/. ; silkworm-calture (now exclusively in 
the hands of the Government), 55,000/. ; agricultural educa- 
tional establishments, 35,000/. ; State forests, 350,000/. ; forest 
inspection, &e., 13,000/. ; State horse-breeding establishments, 
300,000/. ; veterinary establishments, 9,500/. ; repression of 
cattle-disease, 13,000/. (since considerably increased) ; statistical 
bureau, 15,000/. 
The two largest items in this Budget are for horse-breeding 
and for the State forests. The efforts made by the Government 
of Hungary for the improvement of horse-breeding are well 
known. The Kingdom has no less than four distinct State 
horse-breeding establishments — at Kisber (near Komorn), at 
1 Wiener LandiviHhschaftlichc Zeitung, No. 2,347, June 26, 1889. 
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