Hungary and the Hungarians . e the wordsof the present Minister of Agriculture, Dr. export increased steadily up to 1900. Thenfollowed a depression. German export decreased,owing, it is said, to the crisis in the building and France also called for much less thanhitherto. Then a new market was found for pine inEngland, and South Africa was also regarded as apossible field. Thus in a measure rise balanced the direction of the Orient thoughts of any greatincrease of trade have practically been abandoned,Roumania and Bulgaria having entered into thearena as i
Hungary and the Hungarians . e the wordsof the present Minister of Agriculture, Dr. export increased steadily up to 1900. Thenfollowed a depression. German export decreased,owing, it is said, to the crisis in the building and France also called for much less thanhitherto. Then a new market was found for pine inEngland, and South Africa was also regarded as apossible field. Thus in a measure rise balanced the direction of the Orient thoughts of any greatincrease of trade have practically been abandoned,Roumania and Bulgaria having entered into thearena as important competitive factors. In Hungary the system of colonisation still goes elements enter into consideration in the largequestion of colonisation — devastation and over-population. These have ever been the governingfactors of the Hungarian State administrators. Downon the Lower Danube peoples were rendered homelessand landless by floods. These naturally had to beprovided with a sphere for activity. There is also. AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE 313 the settlement of the Csangos, re-emigrated fromBukovina. At first the complaints attending colon-isation were so pronounced and numerous, that doubtsof its success were entertained by not a few. Thepolicy of land tenure was assailed. Difficulty largelyvanished, however, with special and permanent Govern-ment control. The entire scheme of State aid is soenormous that one can only select for description—and even then only touch in passing—a few is the question of veterinary administration,the control of the rivers, the means taken to developthe congested areas in the North-East Carpathians,and the way the Ministry of Agriculture has met thedifficulties surrounding the economic conditions ofthe Szdklers. All these are in themselves intenselyfascinating. Agriculture must needs go hand in hand withcommerce, and it is by a skilful combination of thesetwo State departments that the larger future of thecountry will be
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