Part 1: Co-operation and Association 



GERMANY; 



MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. 



I. — Discussions and decisions of agricui^turai, corporations 

 AND associations. — Every year in the month of February large 

 meetings of the chief agricultural associations are held in Berlin to discuss 

 the most important poHtical and economic questions connected with 

 agriculture in Germany, and to report the latest progress in agricultural 

 technique. People from all parts of the Empire crowd to these meetings in 

 such numbers as to give the capital quite a characteristic appearance. 



The first important meeting this year was that of the " Royal Prussian 

 College of Rural Economy" {Koniglich Preussisches Landes-Okonomie-Kollc- 

 giuni) held from the 5th. to the 7th. February, immediately following the 

 34th. Conference of the '' Presidents of the Chambers of Agriculture in 

 Prussia" {Vorstdnde der Preussischen Landwirtschaftskammern) , held on the 

 jjth. February. Next came, from the loth. to the 13th. February, the 42nd. 

 plenary assembly of the '' German Council of Agriculture " {Deutscher 

 Landwirtschaftsrat) . 



These important official meetings of German agriculturists, were 

 followed from the i6th. to the 21st. February by the so called Great 

 Agricultural Week, when other meetings more or less numerously at- 

 tended and of varied character, were held in large nvimbers. Among the 

 many associations that during this week gave their members the opport- 

 unity of expressing their collective views in regard to the general questions 

 of German agriculture, the principal were the "League of Agriculturists " 

 [Bund der Landwirte) , which, held two large meetings simultaneously onFeb- 

 ruc-ry i6th. to discuss the political situation, the " Association for Fiscal and 

 Economic Reforms " ( Vereinigung derSteuer- und Wirtschaftsre former) , which 



