Its tasks are in particular: 



a) Granting of informations in dairy farming, specially in questions of milk contracts and 

 milk-prices. 



/') To compose sale notes and to confer the necessary declarations. 



c) Personal intervention at the milk-buyers, dairy-farms and milkmen. 



d) Verification of milk, which became sour. 



c) intervention in quarrels arising between producers and buyers. 



The milk saling office obtains in all cases not only better prices but also better conditions 

 of delivery, because it influences the strict observance of punctations in composing the conclusions. 

 The sphere of action of the milk saling office regarding direct influence on milk contracts is a daily 

 quantity of about 500.000 liters. The milk saling office influences also the improvement of the milk 

 quality by informing the producers. 



IX. Depar t me nt. T u r n ips al e o f f i ce. Its activity consists in performance of turnip 

 contracts in the sense of the normal-turnip-delivery-contract composed by the 1. R. Agricultural Society 

 of Vienna together with the union of sugar industry in Austria : it intervenes in quarrels from turnip 

 delivery contracts. This department acts also as office for the court of arbritation of the 1. R. Agricultural 

 Society of Vienna, which arbritates upon disputes arising from turnip delivery contracts, if there 

 exists a respective agreement. 



X. Department. Food- sale office and food mi 11 Bruck a. d. L e i t h a. The 

 establishment of a food-mill from the I. R. Agricultural Society of Vienna can be traced back to the 

 circumstance, that there are many falsifications in the manufacture of substantial foods from molasses 

 which not only make the respective foods of inferior value, but in many cases form also a direct 

 danger for the farmer. 



The I. R. Agricultural Society of Vienna has made it a principle to work up only fodder- 

 substances not objectionable and priceworthy. The high nutritive quality, which the molasses have 

 owing to their contents of sugar and nutritive salts is generally known, and some time ago the same 

 was used directly for fodder by many farmers. 



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