CHAPTER XVII 

 LUXEMBURG 



EVEN in so small a State as the Grand 

 Duchy of Luxemburg, which occupies 

 only 1,585 square miles of territory, and has 

 not much more than 200,000 inhabitants, the 

 organization of agriculture has been taken in 

 hand with a thoroughness that compares favour- 

 ably with the conditions to be found in those 

 neighbouring countries of France, Germany, 

 and Belgium between which it is wedged. 



Luxemburg became possessed of an " Associa- 

 tion Royale Agricole " in 1846, and of " Le 

 Circle Agricole et Horticole " in 1853, and these 

 institutions performed a useful function in 

 holding exhibitions, circulating literature, and 

 watching over the commercial interests of agri- 

 culture. But the time came when Luxemburg, 

 seeing what other countries were doing, con- 

 cluded, as they had done, that combinations with 

 a more practical purpose had become indispensa- 

 ble. Accordingly, in 1883, the Luxemburg 



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