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The Agricultural Intelligence Bureau intends publishing 

 the information gathered day by day, from all countries, in 

 a series of Bulletins of which this is the first. 



Each Bulletin will contain recent information, published 

 during the previous months, on the agricultural development 

 of one or several countries. The Bulletins will vary in length 

 according to the amount and importance of the information, 

 dealing separately with each country. 



Due importance, in a special section of each Bulletin, 

 will be given to all official communications made by the 

 Governments of the States adhering to the International 

 Institute of Agriculture, as to agricultural development in their 

 respective countries, or on other questions within the purview 

 of the Bureau of Agricultural Intelligence and Diseases of Plants. 



Art. 9 of the Convention of 1905, and art. 20 of the Bye- 

 Laws of the Institute, provide for special communications, 

 to be supplied only by the Governments of each State as 

 to the outbreak of new diseases of plants, or of similar pests, 

 within the country, or in case of virulent outbreaks of old 

 diseases. The official communications from each Government 

 constitute the only official and original part of the Bulletins. 

 Such communications will be transcribed as received, or merely 

 translated. They may even be issued apart, as separate leaflets 

 or papers: for information supplied by Governments in the 

 interests of their national agriculture should be published and 

 | distributed with the shortest possible delay. 



The Bulletins will consist mainly of summaries and reviews 

 of the scientific and technical press on the agriculture of one 

 j or more countries, published during the previous months. 



All the questions involved in the study of agricultural 

 j statistics and crop-reporting are dealt with by the Statistical 

 Bureau of the Institute, which publishes the Bulletin of Agri- 

 cultural Statistics. The problems involved in agricultural 

 cooperation, credit and insurance and regarding general and 

 economical legislation are the province of the Bureau of Eco- 

 nomical and Social Institutions. Such questions will, there- 

 fore, form no part of the work and publications of the Agri- 

 cultural Intel ligence Bureau. 



