PRODUCTION AND INDUSTllY^ — AGRICULTURE
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The following tahles show the area in thousands of hectares (2-47 acres) of the leading crops, the total produce in thousands of hectolitres (275 bushels dry, 22 gallons liquiil measure) or of metre-centners (1-96, or nearly 2 cwts.), and also the produce per hectare in hectolitres or metre-centners.
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1 1897
Area in
Produce in
Produce
Area in
Produce in
Prodi.ce
1,000
1.000
per hectare
1.000
1,000
per hectare
luctares
hectolitres
in liectolitres
16-72
hectares 3,013
hectolitres
in hectolitres
Wheat .
3,363
56,232
31,669
10-51
Barley
1,079
21,448
19-88
1,015
15,306
1508
Oats
1,031
26,342
25-56
992
19,974
20-14
Rye .
1,136
18,130
15-96
1,089
13,277
12-19
Pulse
44
527
12 05
43
445
10-35
Buckwheat
13
138
10-80
12
121
10-08
Maize
2,448
51,621
21-09
2,344
41,019
17-50
Other cereals . Total cereals . Potatoes .
265
4,046
15-27
255
2,814
ir04
9,379
178,484
19 03
8,763
124,625
14-22
504
54,376
107-97
303
46,534
• 92-51
Sugar beet
76
15,175^
199-92
72
14,302'
198-64
Beet other
146
38,239'
26216
141
34,055'
241-52
Vineyards
248
1,572
6-36
247
1,308
5 -30
Tol)acco .
33
457'
13 -73
35
519'
15-11
Hemp
64
705
10-97
63
539
8-56
Rape
54
689
12-80
47
497
10-58
1 Metre-centners.
In Hungary (with Croatia) there were (in 1895) 2,308,457 horses, 1,911 mules, 23,855 asses, 6,738,365 cattle, 8,122,682 sheep, 7,330,343 pigs, 308,810 goats, 32,767,085 fowls, and 769,074 beehives. The export of horses, cattle, and sheep far exceeds the imports.
In silk culture 107,454 families were engaged in 1897, compared with 1,059 in 1879. The produce of cocoons was 1,330,884 kilogrammes, the value being 1,043,911 florins.
The inhal)itants of 11,819 communes were engaged in rearing bees, whuli produced 32,432 metric centners of honey, and 2, 235 metric centners of wax, of the value of 1,196,347 florins.
There are 55 agricultural institutions in Hungary with 2,289 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 Proper (1897), 7,522,462 hectares; of which 2,085,488 hectares are under oak, 3,72-2,868 hectares under beech, and 1,714,106 hectares under pine. Of the total, 1,139,782 hectares belonged to the State ; 1,484,0^85 to muni- cipalities and parishes ; 491,305 to ecclesiastical i)crsons ; 70,575 to pultli(! and private foundations; 572,439 to tideicommissa; 964,783 were joint pro- perty (belonging to several owners) ; and 144,530 belonged to joint-stock companies. The total area under forest in Croatia and Slavonia was (1894) 1,530,442 hectaies.
