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ORGANIZATION OP AGRICULTURAL SERVICES IN TRIPOLI. 



As a 'consequence of the studies and proposals of the Agri- 

 cultural Committees sent out by the Government, and by the 

 Italian Society for the study of Libya in Tripoli, there has been 

 instituted in Tripoli an Agricultural Department to which will 

 be subordinated all the services referring to agriculture and 

 colonization. These services will be organized in two 

 sections : 



(1) Administrative Section. This will include: 



(a) A permanent research service for ascertaining and 

 following up, in a methodical manner, the economic agrarian 

 movement of the district. It will be developed by the following 

 means : The formation of an Agrarian Register from a census 

 of the properties, plantations, and cattle ; periodical reports on 

 the progress of crops, on agrarian matters and other economic 

 factors ; special inquiries, carried out in the various districts on 

 definite lines. 



(b) A service of colonization. This will include direct 

 investigation with respect to the availability and quality of 

 lands capable of colonization; guides and monographs illus- 

 trating definite districts and kinds of crops; direct information 

 by correspondence between the Department and agriculturists, 

 or others, in Italy; advice and other like assistance. 



(c) A service of rural engineering; that is to say, the study 

 and initiation of public works, especially those in connection 

 with irrigation, intended to render available the natural 

 resources of the country, and to make the colonization of 

 certain districts possible. 



(d) A direct service for encouraging the development of 

 native and colonial agriculture, by means of publications, 

 subsidies, and premiums; distribution of seed and plants; 

 public tests of machinery and of the principal modes of cul- 

 tivation; establishment of stud farms and of preventive and 

 curative stations for dealing with diseases of plants and animals. 



(e) An experimental service of concessions, which will carry 

 out experiments in connection with the granting* of concessions 

 of domanial lands, by applying types of contracts to the 

 different properties, which will vary with respect to extent, 

 system of cultivation and administration. 



(2) The Technical Section will include: 



(a) Experiments as to the most suitable technical methods 

 for the cultivation of herbaceous and arboreal crops, by dry and 

 irrigation methods of cultivation; the raising of cattle, from 



