of promoting agriculture in the wiiole of Austria. It arranged national Exhibitions, weekly Meetings 

 the International Agricultural Congress, and commenced the study of comprehensive, questions of 

 public interest in the province of agricultural legislation, agricultural politics, administration as well 

 as of agricultural technics, agricultural education, etc. 



For all the enterprises mentioned here only as examples it addressed itself to the corporations 

 interested in them in the various provinces of the whole Empire for the purpose of common cooperation, 

 and the I. R. Agricultural Society of Vienna may state with great satisfaction that the provincial Agri- 

 cultural Boards and the sister associations as well as other agricultural corporations always confidently 

 obeyed the invitation of the I. R. Agricultural Society of Vienna. It must indeed be ascribed to the 

 fact that the I. R. Agricultural Society of Vienna devoted its activity to questions of general interest 

 that it always counted among its members agriculturers and other interested parties outside of 

 Lower Austria. 



Basing itself upon the experience acquired in this way the I. R. Agricultural Society of Vienna 

 after having ceded its former branches of activity to the Agricultural Board of Lower Austria, could 

 confidentially devote itself to the development of its special sphere of action interesting the agri- 

 culture of the whole of Austria. Its tradition as well as the confidence which it enjoyed with the 

 provincial agricultural boards, and with its sister societies as well as its position in the metropolis 

 of the Empire, favourable for the study of such general questions, encouraged it in its undertakings. 



In 1908, in the sixtieth year of the reign of His Majesty the Emperor, on the day when, at 

 the head of the President of the I. R. Agricultural Society of Vienna, the presidents of all agricultural 

 boards and societies presented their common address of homage and allegiance, the I. R. Agricultural 

 Society of Vienna laid the foundation-stone of the Meeting of the Presidents of the agricultural boards 

 and societies of all the provinces of the Empire, a meeting which became later on an important body, 

 bringing the 1. R. Agricultural Society of Vienna, the managing organ of this Meeting, into constant 

 touch with the principal corporations of the various provinces of the Empire, which placed it in a 

 position to take up with greater competence the important general questions and problems in the 

 provinces of practice and science, production of plants and animals, as well as of agricultural- 

 technical industry, tests and education, agricultural legislation and administration and political economy. 



