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Society's President, whilst Professor von Liebenberg is the 
Secretary. 
This Society receives no financial assistance from the State 
or from municipalities, but is wholly supported by the contribu- 
tions of its members. It is in fact a quite private and indepen- 
dent association of men who seek to advance agriculture by 
carrying out, in the best and most scientific way, comparative 
field experiments on various points of farming practice. The 
results of these expei'iments, which are carried out in spring or 
autumn according to a carefully elaborated systematic pro- 
gramme fixed beforehand at the Society's general meeting, and 
controlled by chemical analysis (made in the laboratory of 
Professor Schwackkofer of the Vienna Academy of Agriculture), 
are recorded in the very interesting and detailed Annual Reports 
of the Society (Mittheilungen des Vereines zur Forderung des 
landicirthschaftlichen Versuchswesens in Oesterreich). 1 
The fees of the members are 300 fls. ( = 25/.) life member- 
ship, or 35 fls. a year for " foundation members," and 1 0 fls. a year 
for ordinary members. The number of foundation members, 
among whom are the Emperor and the Archduke William, is 
now twenty. The number of ordinary members, among which 
appear the agricultural schools of Budweis and Reichenberg, 
Modling, Neutitschein, Hermsdorf, Kaschau, Mediasch (Transyl- 
vania), as well as the State horse-breeding establishment at 
Radautz, is 114. During the first four years of the Society's 
existence, 328 reports on experiments successfully carried out 
have been received and published. 
The influence of this young and promising Society is un- 
doubtedly already considerable, and gives promise of almost 
indefinite increase. It has achieved its success mainly by the 
energetic efforts of its President — who bears a name highly 
honoured in Moravia, and who is one of the three distinguished 
sous of a distinguished father — and of its Secretarv, who. as Pro- 
fessor of Agriculture at the Vienna Academy, holds a position 
second to none amongst agricultural scientists in the empire. 
I had the pleasure of meeting both Chev. Em. von Proskowetz, 
Jun., and Dr. von Liebenberg at the International Agricultural 
Congress at Vienna, and came away greatly impressed with the 
high value of their work and the great power for usefulness of 
the Society of which they are the pillars. 
' These reports are published by Frick, Vienna ; and the following have 
already appeared : 1886 (price 1 fl. 50 kr.), 1887, 1888, 1889 and 1890 (price 
3 fls. each volume). 
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