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Statuto della Banca Industriale di Trento {Rules of the Trent Industrial Bank). Trent' 



Artigianelli, 1911. 

 Banca Industriale in Trento [Trent Industrial Bank). Balance Sheets for the Years 1909- 



1912. 



I,A SiSTEMAZIONE DELL'ADIGE E LA BONIFICA DELLA VALLE DA S. MlCHELE A SACCO (The 



Regulation of the Adige and the Draining of the Valley, from S. Michael to Sacco). Report 



of the " Consorzio Atesino S. Michele Sacco". Trent, 1913. 

 Statuto dfx Consorzio di Manutenzione del Regolamento hkll'Adige S. jMichele 



Sacco (Rules of the S. Michcle-Sacco Consortium for the Maintenance of the Course of the 



Adige and its Regulation). Trent, 1897. 

 Statuto della B.axca Mutua Popolare di Rovereto (Rules of the Rovercto People's Bank). 



Mori, 1913. 

 Banca Mutua Popolare di Rovereto (Rovereto People's Mutual Bank). Balance Sheets for 



the Years 1910-1912. 

 Battisti (Dr.C): "II Trenlino ". Trent. Published by Zippel. "AlcuniCenni sul Trentino " 



(Some Notes on the District of Trent). Rome, Chromo-I^itho-l ypographical Estab- 



lisliment, 1912. 



Generai, remarks. 



The district of Trent is a mountainotis region, lying along the banks 

 of the Adige to the south of the great Alpine chain, which forms the watershed 

 between the Adriatic and the river basins to the North. Pohtically it is sub- 

 ject to Austria and forms the southern portion of the Province of the Tj'rol; 

 on three sides, south, east and west, of a total length of 316 kilometres, it 

 borders on the Kingdom of Italy (i) ; its population is Itahan. 



The area of the district is about 6,330 kms. and the population about 

 380,000. It is an eminently agricultural region, vines are cultivated extens- 

 ively in the lower and moderately high regions (pi ain and hill) of the whole 

 country and bear excellently, both as regards quality and quantity' (2) . The 

 wine of the country is exported to the whole of the Austrian Empire, and, 

 in spite of high protective tariffs, finds its way even into Sw itzerlaud and 

 German}'. Next in importance come cereals: wheat, rye, barley oats and 

 maize; fruit, cattle foods, tobacco, and in the warmer parts, ohves (3). 



In spite of the crisis in the silk industry half a century ago wliicli lasted 

 for a long series of years, the district of Trent, formerly an important and 



(i) The district lies between 45° 40' 20" and 46* 32' 20" N. lat., and lo® 27' 30" and 

 11° 55' o" E. long. 



(2) The average annual yield of wine is about 750,000 hi., which, at the average price oi 

 16—25 crs. per hi. of crushed grapes, gives a total revenue of from 12, 000,000 to 1 9, c 00,000 crs. 

 a year. 



(3) The total area of arable land in the district is about 35,000 ha. (out of 100,000 ha. of 

 productive land, arable land, meadows, gardens, orchards, vinej'ards and pastures), of which 

 from 7,000 to 7,500 ha. are sown with wheat and spring crops ; so that the area cultivated with 

 wheat is little more than a sixth of the entire arable land. Of the 20,000 ha. of arable land in the 

 plain, 7,000 are cultivated with rye, barley and oats; 2,400 with leguminous cattle foods 

 (clover and lucern), 9,000 with hoed crops, and of these 70 % with maize. From the above 

 figures, it appears that maize is the favourite crop. In fact, the yield of wheat is hardly 

 90,000 (luinlals a year, barely sufiicicnl for the nceds^ of the population for 3 months. 



