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Six divisions will be made for the work of the Congress. 



1st. The Division for Rural Ivegislation, Wages and Insurance, presid- 

 ed over by M. Souchon, Professor at the Paris Faculty of I^aw and I^ecturer 

 at the National Agronomic Institute ; 



2nd. That of Popular Agricultural Instruction, of which the President 

 will be M. Tisserand, Member of the Institute and Honorary Director of 

 Agriculture ; 



3rd. That for Employment of lyabourers, with, as President, M. Blan- 

 chard. Director of the Agricultural Office of I^oire ; 



4th. That for I^and Credit, I^abourers' Houses and General Health, the 

 President of which will be M. Tardy, Principal Inspector of Mutual Credit 

 and Agricultural Co-operation ; 



5th. That of Small Agricultural Trades, with M. Duf our man telle, 

 formerly president of the Society of Social Economy, as President ; 



6th. That of Metairie and the Various Contracts of I^ease, under the 

 Presidency of M. Marcel Vacher, Vice-Secretary of the National Society of 

 Agriculture. 



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3. — The doubs agricui^turai, associations house. — At Besan9on, 

 on March 6th., the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Labour laid 

 the foundation stone of a building to serve as the head quarters of 250 agri- 

 cultural associations of the Department of Doubs, and especially of the mut- 

 ual societies, all united in a Federation des associations agricoles du Doubs 

 (Federation of Doubs Agricultural Associations). The first of these unions 

 was a departmental syndicate, with which a number of other important 

 syndicates united. There joined these the mutual insurance societies of which 

 most are united in a departmental reinsurance society, a Regional Agricul- 

 tural Credit Bank, uniting 24 local banks, without counting the independ- 

 ent rural banks, and the livestock improvement syndicates, more than 

 70, united in federations. 



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4. — Industries auxii,iary to agricui^ture. — The 34th. General 

 Meeting of the National Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture {Societe 

 Nationale d' Encourage^nent a V Agriculture) , was held in Paris from February 

 17th. to 19th. It as usual formed a special congress, occupied this 

 year with the farm yard, the produce of which, for example, milk, eggs, 

 poultry, fruit, vegetables, honey etc. provides a revenue of some thousand 

 millions. Nearly 1,000 members were registered for this Congress and 

 among them a large number of farmwomen, whose useful work for the 

 maintenance and prosperity of the farm is recognised. 



