(248 HUNGARIAN POULTRY INDUSTRY. 

at present practically a prune growers’ association, and 
includes the owners of four-fifths of the prune-bearing acreage. 
It is formed on the lines of the Raisin Growers’ Association, 
which has been very successful. By means of this association 
it is expected that prunes, which are now sold at a very low 
price, and which fluctuate to such an extent that dealers 
are unwilling to trade in them, will be placed on a profitable 
basis. 
[For ezgn Office Report, Annual Series. No. 2,506. Price 25d. | 

In Hungary considerable attention is being directed to the 
development of the poultry industry, the 
poets interest in which has been largely aroused 
Industry. by the demand for poultry products for 
export. At the time of the agricultural 
inquiry of 1895 the stock of poultry of all kinds in the kingdom, 
including Croatia and Slavonia, was 32,765,oco. This total 
embraces fowls, ducks, pigeons, geese, and turkeys, but the 
number of each kind was not separately recorded. In 1884 
the poultry enumerated in Hungary, exclusive of Croatia and 
Slavonia, amounted to 32,914,000 head, comprising 21,681,000 
domestic fowls, 5,630,000 geese, 2,674,000 ducks, 2,246,000 
pigeons, and 683,000 turkeys. Hungary enjoys a consider 
‘able export trade in live and dead poultry, and the net 
exports of eggs have in recent years approached 600,000 cwts. 
yearly. Since 1890 the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture 
has made special efforts to improve the race of native fowls 
by providing selected cocks for breeding purposes, which 
may be purchased by poultry keepers, or they may be 
exchanged for cocks of the common variety in the case 
of the poorer peasantry. There are eleven State poultry- 
reeding stations attached to agricultural schools, in addition 
to a central poultry-rearing school and depot at Géddéllé- 
The fowls bred at these stations are mainly of the Plymouth 
Rock and Langshan breeds, while Pekin ducks, Embden 
geese, and French and bronze turkeys are also reared for 
breeding purposes. 
[Die Landswirthschaft Ungarns, 1900. 
