IlS INFORMATION RELATIXC, TO AC~,RICULTURAL ECONOMY IX OENERAL 



of the call to the colours of members of the lessee's family, has placed it 

 economicalh'' in a difficult condition, the commission may declare a reduc- 

 tion of rent for the current year and for the succeeding years during which 

 the delay continues, in a proportion not exceeding one half of such rent 

 for each man called to the colours. 



In the case of contracts of any kind imposing fixed wages, the Arbi- 

 tration Commission may exceptionally, if the parties have not come to an 

 agreement, grant at the instance of the labourer, taking into account the 

 conditions of labour and production, an increase of wages. 



The last part of the decree contains complementary provisions for the 

 Arbitration Commissions of mandamento, and especially for the Provin- 

 cial Commissions of Agriculture formed by Article 8 of the decree of 30 

 May 1916, No. 645. Persons representing economic institutions (agri- 

 cultural co-operative societies), or technical institutions (agricultural com- 

 mittees), or local institutions, are summoned to be members of these com- 

 missions of which the task has been enlarged. They are charged : 



a) To make a levy of the labour available for agricultvire in the differ- 

 ent zones of the province, using the authority of communes, and also 

 that of the labour bureaux where these exist, and of the workmen's organ- 

 izations and other social institutions publicly recognized or subsidized; 

 and to estimate the adequacy or inadequacy of the supply of labour to 

 the needs of local farms, organizing accordingly its displacement from one 

 zone to another. 



h) To make a levy of the agricultural machines available in the pro- 

 vince and facilitate the greatest possible use of them. 



c) To keep count of variations in the area devoted to each crop 

 witliin the province, to notify the Ministry of Agriculture of the causes for 

 changes, and make suggestions with a view to using uncultivated land to 

 the greatest possible extent, 



d) To regulate and facilitate, by means of agreements with Commis- 

 sions of Agriculture in adjacent provinces, migrations from one province 

 to another, according to the supply of labour available and the needs of 

 agriculture. 



The officials of communes, the inspectors of industry and labour, the 

 holders of the peripatetic chairs of agriculture, and, generally, all officials 

 depending on the Ministry of Agriculture, and all those nominated to 

 legally recognized agricultural institutions and to social institutions sub- 

 sidized by public authority, are bound to give their aid, when asked, to 

 these Provincial Commissions. 



2. RUIvES FOR GRANTINO THE TEMPORARY U.SR OF AGRICULTURAL, MACHINES. 



Among measures favouring agriculturists lately adopted by the Ital- 

 ian government, one which deserves notice is that allowing the Minister 



