708 Agricultural Administration in Austria-Hungary. 
Experimental Stations in Hungary. 
The experimental stations (such as they are) in Hungary 
appear to be exclusively at the agricultural schools. The records 
of the operations of these stations, as contained in their last 
reports, do not afford material for useful comment. But it may 
be mentioned that at the Agricultural Academy at Altenburg 
there is a trial station for agricultural implements (where in 
1887-8 experiments were made with maize-cultivators, steam 
threshing machines, grubbers, sowing machines, potato planters, 
and the like), a chemical experiment station (where in 1887-8 
124 analyses were made of artificial manures, foods, wine, 
wheat, &c), a seed-testing establishment, and a meteorological 
station. 
Agricultural Societies. 
In addition to the direct work of the Government, the ad- 
vancement of agriculture is fostered in each province, either by 
provincial agricultural committees or boards, or by central 
societies receiving subventions from the Government or from 
the Provincial Diets. Under these, again, are district, local, or 
branch societies, associations, and clubs, of which in 1886 there 
were 1361, of which 372 were special. The total number of 
members of these various associations is estimated at 100,000, 
of which nearly half are in Bohemia. 
In five of the provinces — Bohemia, Upper Austria, Tyrol, 
Istria, and Dalmatia — the central societies which formerly existed 
have been replaced by provincial agricultural committees or 
boards (Landesculturrath). Each of these committees con- 
sists of a member of the Provincial Council, who is chosen by 
the Emperor, as president ; certain experienced officials ; the 
leading men of the local agricultural unions; and members 
nominated by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Provincial 
Councils for six years, and by the various societies for three 
years. The other provinces still retain their independent central 
societies. 
The oldest of the central societies in point of date of forma- 
tion is the Agricultural Society of Carinthia, at Klagenfurt, 
founded in 1764, which is closely followed by that of Carniola, 
at Laibach, founded in 1767, and that of Moravia, at Briinn, 
founded by Maria Theresa in 1770. The locale of the Moravian 
society has since the year 1818 been in the old Bishop's Palace 
— a most interesting old house, now filled with antiquarian 
treasures dug up at Briinn (which was a Pioman settlement) 
and a very complete collection of the fauna of the province. 
