Part iV: Miscellaneous 



ALGERIA. 



ORGANIZATION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STUDY 

 AND EXPERIMENT SERVICE. 



OFFICIAI, SOURCE. 



GO\ERNMENT GENERAL OF ^VLGERL'i.. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE AND COLON- 

 ISATION : Organisation d'un Service d'Etudes, de Reclierches, d'Exiierimentation et 

 de Vulgarisation agricoles en Algerie {Organization of a Service of Agricultural Study 

 Research, Experiment and Publication in Algeria) . 



In regions where even the tradition of agriculture has been lost, it is 

 not enough to facilitate the acquisition of land for the colonists and to ensure 

 them the tranquillity necessary for their labours ; it is necessary also to 

 guide them in their efforts, or at least to obtain for them the precise and 

 certain information only the State can obtain, with the least delaj^ by 

 means of research, studies and experiments methodically conducted in the 

 whole country b^' qualified technical persons. 



It must be the care of the Government to provide the colonist with in- 

 formation as exact as can be attained, humanly speaking, with regard to the 

 conditions under which agriculture can be carried on, so as to permit of 

 its adaptation to them as far as possible. The more perfect this adapt- 

 ation, the more nature wiU assist their individual efforts, and the more 

 abundant will be the harshest and the greater the profits. 



It is necessary to know what animals, what plants, what agricultural 

 methods are to be recommended. This is a work of research and experi- 

 ment that cannot be left to the scattered efforts of the colonists ; that would 

 be to expose them to serious risks and endless possibiHties of demoralising 

 defeat. 



