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and inhospitable, the area useful to man, the Intelligence 

 Bureau will gather information on those more specialised 

 studies which contribute so powerfully to the success of 

 agricultural undertakings, directly and indirectly promoting 

 the welfare of farmers and the prosperity of States. Such 

 are the studies on the conditions governing the life and 

 development of plants and animals, and of those micro- 

 organisms which so powerfully influence the growth and health 

 of all higher forms of life. 



Thus, the Intelligence Bureau will deal with the facts 

 involved in the study of soils, waters, manures, cultivation 

 of plants, plant-breeding, stock breeding, the industrial trans- 

 formation of vegetable and animal products, agricultural im- 

 plements and machinery, and means for preserving and pre- 

 paring and bringing to market farm products: indeed, with 

 all subjects connected with the theory and practice of agricul- 

 ture and allied industries and regarding the intellectual and 

 scientific organisation of husbandry. 



No small part of the success in farming depends on the 

 protection of crops against the many diseases and pests, which 

 attack them with increasing virulence. These diseases and 

 pests weave wide and varied networks of distress, passing from 

 country to country : teaching, by mutual and increasingly 

 interchanging losses, which afflict diverse and distant nations, 

 the advantages of a far-reaching network of research and of 

 defence, serving for prompt alarm at every new appearance 

 of common and ubiquitous enemies. 



Attention will be given by the Bureau to some special 

 legislative or other measures taken by the Governments ot 

 the several countries in behalf of agriculture: by promoting 

 technical training and experiments, by manifold land-impro- 

 vements, by protecting plants against parasites and diseases, 

 and by inspecting the trade in products, the purity and genui- 

 neness of which are of importance to agriculture. The Bureau 

 will likewise keep in touch with the work of Agricultural 

 Academies and Societies and with the proceedings and reso- 

 lutions of national and international Congresses of Agriculture, 

 or regarding special branches of farming. 



