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HUNGARY

In Hungary there were (in 1912) 1,960,000 horses, 968 mules, 15,986 agses, 6,036,945 cattle, 7,168,054 sheep, 7,709,801 pigs, 313,849 goats, and 607,986 beehives. The export of horses, cattle, and sheep far exceeds the imports.

In silk culture 96,971 families were engaged in 1911, compared with 1,059 in 1879. The produce of cocoons (1911) was 1,878 metric tons, the value being 160,779Z.

In Hungary proper the inhabitants of 13,223 communes were engaged (1911) in rearing bees, which produced 2,900 metric tons of honey, and 182 metric tons of Avax, of the value of 116,6617.

There are 64 agricultural institutions in Hungary with (1911) 2,408 pupils.

The administration of the forests belonging to the State is in the hands of the Ministry of Agriculture. The total area under forest was in Hungary (1911), 8,982,869 hectares, of which 2,358,181 hectares are under oak, 4,691,745 hectares under beech, and 1,932,943 hectares under pine.

The forests are mostly situated in the Carpathians, and between the rivers Drava and Save. In 1911 the Hungarian exports of timber and chief forest products amounted to 993,251 metric tons, valued at 3,434,000Z., and the imports to 734,807 metric tons, valued at 1,765,0007.

II.— MINING.

In Hungary were employed in mining and smelting works (1911) 73,575 men, 1,310 women, and 4,451 children, total, 79,336 persons ; in saltworks, 2,328 men, 1 woman, and 293 children, total, 2,622 persons.

Value of the principal mineral and furnace products in thousand crowns : —

Mineral and furnace

Thousand crowns

products

1907

11,479 1,266 11,439 36,329 14,721 51,887

1008

10,787 1,132 13,287 43,557 16,116 62,540

1900 1010

1911

Gold. Silver Iron ore Pig iron. Coal. Lignite

8,933 940 14,526 42,730 17,965 68,842

9,960 1,079 13,628 40,987 16,679 71,494

10,469 907 13,334 43,848 15,481 77,200

III.— MANUFACTURES.

In Hungary (including Croatia and Slavonia) in 1900, there were em- ployed in the various industries (domestic and ambulant industries included) 1,127,730 ; or 12*8 per cent, of the earning population. Of these the most numerous were those working in clothing, 281,320 ; in food stuffs, 143,733 ; in iron and metals, 128,205; in building, 125,070; in wood and bone. 95,823 ; in personal services (hotels, inns, &c.), 95,358 ; in machinery, 72,42'8 ; in earthenware and glass, 44,887; in textile industries, 34,156; in leather and skins, 16,596 ; in polygraphical industries, 17,159 ; in chemical products, 14,494 ; in pa})er, 7,727. Domestic and popular industries gave occupation to 43,081, ambulant industry to 6,823 persons. Including families and domestic servants the total number of those dependent on the industries was 2,604,082 ; or 13*5 per cent of the population.

In 1910-11 there were 83 breweries which brewed 59,542,842 gallons of