120 IXFORMATIOX RP:I.ATI.\G TO AGRICULTURAL ECOXOMV IX GEXERAL 



For every da}- for which the return of the machine is delayed beyond 

 the term of the grant, the grantee must pay a fine as compensation and in- 

 terest. Its amount will be previously determined b}' the manager of the 

 depot according to the importance and value of the machine. 



When the machine is returned a report must be made, noting the con- 

 dition in which it is brought back to the depot. 



Persons who have used the machines must, when returning them, pre- 

 sent a detailed report on results obtained, costs incurred, and the conditions 

 of weather and place in which trial of them has been made. In this report 

 all results must be carefully compared with those which would have been 

 obtained had ordinary expedients been used and customar}- local prac- 

 tices followed. In making calcvilations allowance should be made for inter- 

 est on the sum employed to purchase the machine or implement and for 

 amortization. The manager must refuse to grant further machines to per- 

 sons who have neglected to obey this provision which is of evident iitility. 



Finally, in the first month of every year the manager must present to 

 the ministry a complete report of the trials of the machines and imple- 

 ments in his depot during the preceding year. In forwarding this report 

 he must suggest the replacement of machines which no longer meet local 

 needs, either because they have undergone depreciation or because agri- 

 tural mechanics have progressed. At the same time he must communi- 

 cate an}' desires for new machines, of more recent or more perfect pattern, 

 which have been expressed to him. 



3. TILE FOUX'DATIOX OF AX " ISTITUTO AUTOX'OMO DI BOXIFICAMEXTO AGRA- 

 RIO E DI COLONIZZAZTOXF; PERIvA SARDEGXA". — Gazzctta VfficialeddRes.no 

 d'ltalia, Xo. 249, Rome, 23 October 1916. 



By a decree of the General Lieutenancy' of the kingdom, No. 1316, 

 dated 3 September igi6, there has been founded at Sauluri (Cagliari) an 

 autonomous in.stitute of agricultural beneficence and of colonization for 

 Sardinia, and it has received for fifty j-ears the use of the experimental 

 estate, formed on 25 November 1915, which comprises the large property 

 called " Stabilimento Vittorio Emanuele ". 



This institute is obliged gradually to provide for works of agricultural 

 benefit, land improvement and colonization, and for the division of its 

 land into farms which will be granted to cultivators ; all according to plans 

 approved by the Ministry of Agricultvire. 



For the purpose of these tasks the institute may receive preferential 

 loans, and also advances and loans from institutions of land or agricultural 

 credit and savings banks. 



It is further charged to promote the foundation of an agricultural 

 bank and agricultural union, chiefly in the interest of the cultivators. It 

 may also promote such co-operative consumers', labourers' and producers' 

 associations as co-operative dairies, oilraills, cellars etc. 



