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five chief items: the agricultural budget properly so called, the
Agricultural College, veterinary matters, the allotment authorities
and the Royal Society for Norway’s Welfare.
The agricultural budget is balanced with an expense of
800,000 kroner, including the salaries of a staff of state
functionaries, grants in favour of agricultural, dairy, and horticultural
schools, laboratories of different kinds, contributions to the
agricultural societies of the counties, etc.
The Agricultural College, since its establishment in 1859, has
been connected with the model farm at Aas near Kristiania. Up
to the year 1897, advanced instruction was here given only to
agriculturists, but in the above-mentioned year the school was
enlarged so as to become also a college for gardeners, dairy
farmers, surveyors and foresters. The Agricultural College is
managed by a director, and the staff of teachers consists of nine
professors and ten instructors and assistants. The annual state
contribution on the ordinary budget amount« to about 100,000
kroner.
Civil veterinary matters are also managed by a director who
is at the same time the manager of the veterinario-pathological
laboratory of the state. The state and county veterinarians are
under his guidance, as also the public tuberculin examinations,
the courses of instruction for veterinarians, quarantine stations, etc.
Norway has not as yet a separate veterinary college, but the
establishment of such an institution is under discussion. The
annual government grant to veterinary institutions amounts to
about 130,000 kroner.
For the advancement of the public allotment there have been
appointed 44 chief surveyors with a staff of assistants. The whole
salary and travelling expenses of the staff are paid by the state,
and thus the expenses for the interested lot-owners become
relatively small. As it is often necessary, as a consequence of an
allotment, to remove houses, there is on the annual allotment
budget a standing grant of 50,000 kroner, for the purpose of
rendering assistance to needy lot-owners; while the total amount
of the budget is 250,000 kroner.
The Royal Society for Norway’s Welfare is the central
agricultural society of the country, while all the county agricultural
societies are its subordinate branches under whose direction the
parish or district societies in their turn are working. The purpose
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