RICCICXT PKU\IS10XS AS TO A("tK IClI.Tr KAI, CKIU)!'!' 4I 



6) Federation for Agricultural Credit in Umbria, for the agricultiiral 

 funds of the region, 500,000 liras. 



7) htituto Nazionale di Credito per la Cooperazione, 2,000,000 liras. 

 The Bank of Naples is charged to make these advances wliich amount 



altogether to quite 19 million liras. Sums eventually not required by any 

 of the cited institutions may be assigned to others which are found to have 

 received insufficient advances. 



§ 3. vSpKCIAL provisions for SARDINIA. 



The provisions we have examined are general in character. They 

 were founded on the decree of 10 May 1917, No. 788, which established the 

 starting-points for State action in the matter of the intensification of the 

 cultivation of food crops. But the examination of the conditions of single 

 Italian districts brought into notice particularities which could not be ne- 

 glected, and it became necessary to make special provision for some regions, 

 among them Sardinia. We have already seen how, for growing cereals, 

 the agriculturists of this island can obtain loans from the local institutions 

 of agricultural credit, in order to prepare the land for sowing, at the rate 

 of 100 liras a hectare , and that if they extend the area cultivated in 1916- 

 1917 they can also obtain loans of seed for the additional land to be sown. 



For the purpose of such grants the Casse Adetnprivili of Cagliari and 

 Sassari have already obtained from the State an advance of 1,500,000 liras 

 each. 



Further a lieutenancy decree of 23 August 1917, No. 1329, authorizes 

 these funds to acquire seeds in order to grant them at cost price to the Monti 

 Frunientari, the agricultural co-operative societies and agriculturists, ei- 

 ther for cash or on credit. 



For this purpose the State will grant these funds not more than 2 

 ])er cent, of the value of the seeds granted. Other facilities are granted 

 by the same decree for the acquisition of chemical manures by agricultu- 

 rists who cultivate directly holdings not more than ten hectares in area, 

 the State contri1>uting with a sum of 200,000 liras to the payment of a quota 

 of the jjrice not exceeding 25 per cent. 



In connection with the })ro visions having immediate force, and in or- 

 der at once to obtain conditions favourable to an extension of cultivation 

 in the coming year, certain modifications, which have for some time been 

 the objects of votes and proposals, have been introduced into the law which 

 regulates agricultural credit in Sardinia (single text, 10 November 1917, 

 No. 844). 



The new provisions, contained in the lieutenancy decree of 23 August 

 1917, No. 1592, enlarge the whole sphere of activity of the Casse Adempri- 

 vili, for they establish that the advance^ referred to in Clauses 3 and 4 of 

 Article i of the cited law of 10 November 1907, No. 844 (advances for 

 buildings settlers' houses and suitai)le stables, making farm roads, restoring 

 xdneyards, providing water-supplies, etc.) may be made indiscriminately 



