SHEEP BREEDING IN HUNGARY. AG 


The difference in the wages of an adult labourer in these 
districts ranges from 43s. 4d. to 65s. yearly. It seems that 
complete statistics of annual average wages for the whole 
kingdom are wanting for earlier years, so that a comparison 
CA OnlyeDew Made wor Certaim jdistricts, According to a 
statement by Cavtain la Cour, formerly Secretary of the 
Royal Danish Agricultural Society, the wages of labourers 
engaged by the year in Fyen in 1872, 1883, and 1893, were 
as follows :—- 
Adult Male. Woman. 
Year. fe Se. 2 Gk fe 3. Gh 
TS > ho" PS ey =e ge al aA a ey (fee eds) 4, iB 
1883 - : = : : ; 9 4 2 by US) 
1893 - - - - - Sane 2 ewan an 7 QO 3 © 
As regards the wages of day labourers, a comparison can 
be made for a longer period. The average wages of day 
labourers, finding their own board, were is. 1}d. a day in 
homies 4:d. 1M) 1935 1S. 54d.in 18885 and 1s. rotd: in 
1893. 

SHEEP-BREEDING IN HUNGARY. 
Sheep-breeding has declined considerably in Hungary 
partly in consequence of the changes in the system of 
farming having reduced the area of land suitable for sheep, 
and partly owing to the great fall in the price of wool caused 
by the competition of imported varieties. The diminution of 
the Hungarian flocks since 1870 represents a loss of 7,000,000 
head. In 1870 15,076,000 sheep were enumerated in the 
country, in 1880 there were 9,838,000, and in 1895 8,122,681. 
In Hungary particular attention has been given to the 
production of wool. From an early period flockmasters 
adopted the Negretti-Merino sheep on account of the excel- 
lent quality of its fleece, and large flocks of this breed have 
been kept by most of the prominent landowners; but 
the rapid fall in the price of wool which accompanied the 
introduction of considerable supplies from Argentina and 
the Cape was followed by a diminution of the Hungarian 
flocks, and numbers of pure-bred Negretti sheep were sent to 
the butcher, In many cases the merinos were crossed with 
