Agricultural Administration in Austria-Hungary. 703 
mr (one for general agriculture at Vienna, one for silkworm 
nd vine culture at Gorz, one for vine and fruit culture at 
Closterneuburg near Vienna, and one for forestry at Mariabrunn, 
Iso near Vienna) were founded and are maintained by the 
iovernment. Three others are supported by the Imperial and 
voyal Agricultural Society at Vienna, and the Provincial Agricul- 
ural Councils for Bohemia at Prague, and for Vorarlberg at 
^eldkirch. There are also four special and more or less private 
•stablishments maintained by the Austro-Hungarian Sugar- 
producers' Union at Vienna, by a Brewers' Association for brew- 
ng and malting, also at Vienna, by the Distillers' Union at 
Prague, and by Prince Schwarzenberg at Lobositz for the benefit 
)f his own estates. In addition to the above, there are experi- 
aiental stations at the following provincially supported agricul- 
cural schools : San Michele (Tyrol), Parenzo (Istria), Neutit- 
schein (Moravia), Prerau (Moravia), Hermsdorf (Silesia), 
Dublany (Galicia) and Kaaden (Bohemia). Next year (1891) 
further experimental stations are to be established at Czernichow 
(Galicia) and Ritzlhof (Upper Austria) for the testing of seeds 
land manures. Nor must mention be omitted here of the Society 
for the Advancement of Agricultural Experiments, which, though 
it has no station of its own, organises a great variety of valuable 
experiments on the estates of its members. 
Whilst in England the work of agricultural experimental 
stations is almost uniformly devoted to what may be termed 
field and feeding experiments, all very much of the same type, 
and all carried out on lines laid down by practical agriculturists, 
that of the Austrian stations is of a much more varied nature. 
• The comparative trials of manures in the field, or the feeding 
of materials to sheep and oxen in the stall, are supplemented, 
for instance, by the selection of the best seeds and plants, or 
by investigations into the physiological development, &c, of the 
beasts, as the case may be. Again, analytical examination of 
manures, feeding-stuffs, and seeds, is not only placed within easy 
reach of the farmer, but the manufacturer and merchant also are 
permitted to utilise the stations for the same purposes. These 
latter privileges have been attended by very great success, and the 
manufacturers prefer in the majority of cases that the goods in 
warehouse shall be branded on the outside of the cases or bags 
with the guaranteed quality, as defined by the analysis. It is 
satisfactory to notice that farmers now make it the practice to buy 
only with a very definite guarantee, the vendor being obliged 
either to make good any deficiency in quality of the goods 
delivered, or to take the whole back again at his own expense. 
In the case of analyses made for manufacturers and merchants, 
