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THE OBJECT AND THE TASK OF THE <■ AXI^GEMEIXE OESTERREICHISCHE VIEH- 

 VERWERTUNGSGESEIvI<SCHAFT » (General Austrian Society for the Sale of Cattle) 

 Appendix to the report for 191 5-1 91 6, Vienna 191 6. 



The General Austrian Society for the Sale ot Cattle was founded in 

 1913 on the advice and with the co-operation of the Imperial and Ro^-al 

 Ministry of Agriculture. Its aims are : 



1. The establishment and use of a public market for breeding and 

 income-producing stock which will be equally accessible to production and 

 to trade in the kingdoms and provinces represented in the Reichsrat ; 



2. The purchase and sale of breeding and income-producing stock 

 and stock kept for slaughter, on behalf of the society' itself and others ; 



3. The acquisition and letting and emplo^'ment of properties, 

 the fattening of stock and the realization of profits thereon, and the 

 formation and management of enterprises intended to favour the sale of 

 live stock — the exigencies of provisioning being always taken into ac- 

 count fairly. 



The chief object of the society is thus to establish business relations 

 between producers of live stock and those who realize profits on stock on 

 the one hand, and between butchers and others analogous^ placed and 

 consumers on the other. 



The society's public usefulness is shown by the fact that it takes into 

 account the wants of all interested persons : 



a) In that ever since its foundation it has offered to breeders of live 

 stock the opportunity to sell their produce as little expensively as possi- 

 ble, delivering them from the onerous guardianship of a superfluity of 

 middlemen ; 



b) In that it takes common interests into account, participating, 

 by its inter\'ention in the central market for live stock of St. Marx and the 

 great market, in providing meat for the town. 



The town of \^ienna, numerous agricultural organizations, certain 

 of the principal corporations, certain agriculturists, the Allgemeine Depo- 

 sitenhank — such are the organizations which participate in the enterprise 

 financially. As regards the financial management of its business the by-^ 



