By this kind of activity the I. R. Agricultural Society of Vienna acquired a great many 

 friends and protectors. The number of its members comprising agriculturers of all the provinces of 

 Austria increased thus in a quite unexpected way. 



In undertaking this activity of general utility with a view to promoting the agriculture of the 

 whole Empire the I. R. Agricultural Society of Vienna, seeing the general tendency of our times, 

 could not lose sight of the fact that the agriculturers see also in their organisations institutions for 

 the promotion of their private economical interests, and naturally wish to obtain also direct economical 

 advantages from these organisations. As soon as this fact had become sufficiently evident there 

 were created various commercial and economical branches for the promotion of the private interests 

 of the agriculturers, represented by various departments of the I. R. Agricultural Society of Vienna, 

 such as the Law Office, the Tariff Department, the Information Bureau, the Department for the 

 administration of estates and book-keeping, the Milk Saling Office, the Factory and the Saling Office 

 for substantial cattle-food, the Machine Saling Office, etc. By all these commercial and administrative 

 branches of its activity for the promotion of the private interests of its members the I. R. Agricultural 

 Society of Vienna intends to secure to agriculturers the advantages of appropriate advice as well as 

 of supplies at favourable terms. These enterprises are however intended to develop themselves 

 independently thanks to their good commercial management, and to yield finally a profit which will 

 serve again through enterprises of public benefit for the promotion of the interests of agriculturers 

 in general, and consequently of the private interests of each agriculturer. The commercial activity 

 of the 1. R. Agricultural Society of Vienna coincides thus also with its fundamental principle of 

 promoting agriculture through a strong and competitive organisation. 



By this double activity directed on the one hand to the development of agriculture in the 

 whole of Austria, and on the other hand to the promotion of private agricultural interests the I. R. 

 Agricultural Society of Vienna realises to-day the task traced to it by the Imperial Decree of October 

 20"'' 1807: „as a society of competent men devoting themselves to the improvement of national 

 agriculture, and contributing thus to the consolidation of the foundation of the edifice called State." 



The tasks and objects mentioned in the new statutes authorised by the decree of May 

 29"'' 1912, Z. 2807/3, in which the I. R. Agricultural Society is characterised as a national organisation 

 are only the modern solution of the problem set to our society more than a century ago. 



