Hungary and the Hungarians . a forecast of harvest is easilyattainable. The Department publishes every ten daysduring the summer the reports of the various corre-spondents on all subjects of vital interest. And whenall the crops are gathered at the end of October, thecorrespondents draw up, on the basis of the knowndata, a final valuation of the produce of the agriculturalyear. These reports are summarised by the CentralStatistical Office for districts and counties, and thenpublished. In 1900 the Hungarian Governmentmade an agreement with the Government of theUnited States of America to exchan
Hungary and the Hungarians . a forecast of harvest is easilyattainable. The Department publishes every ten daysduring the summer the reports of the various corre-spondents on all subjects of vital interest. And whenall the crops are gathered at the end of October, thecorrespondents draw up, on the basis of the knowndata, a final valuation of the produce of the agriculturalyear. These reports are summarised by the CentralStatistical Office for districts and counties, and thenpublished. In 1900 the Hungarian Governmentmade an agreement with the Government of theUnited States of America to exchange their reportson the condition of the crops in the summer monthsby telegram. It is clear even to the casual observerthat agriculture is the nations staple industry. Naturally one who is at all socially or economicallyminded turns and says, What is the condition of theworker amidst such an elaborate scheme of administra-tion ? It is too often true that the agriculturallabourer is the last man thought of by nations in their. A FARMHOUSE NEAR PECS, TRANS-DANUBIAN HUNGARY AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE 303 desire for progress. Man, like politics, is too oftentaken for granted. Opinions are at variance bothin Hungary and without concerning the conditionsof life and labour on the farm. Even legislation—recent legislation—has been variously Socialists aver that a system bordering uponfeudal service exists, whilst the landed gentry repudiateit. Doubtless there are exaggerations on both sides,but it must not be lost sight of that Hungary is onlyjust awakening to the trumpet call of modern Westerncivilisation, and old systems are not destroyed in asingle campaign, neither does truth and right alwaysseize hold of the complete man all at once. InEngland some reforms were frightfully slow in coming,particularly those touching the land and the are therefore in Hungary not as bad as theysay they are, and not as good as they ought to , though on the rise
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