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ORGANIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL SERVICES IN TRIPOLI. 
As a consequence of the studies and proposals of the Agri- 
cultural Committees sent out by the Government, and by the 
Italian Society for the study of Libya in Tripoli, there has been 
instituted in Tripoli an Agricultural Department to which will 
be subordinated all the services referring to agriculture and 
colonization. These services will be organized in two 
sections : — 
(1) Administrative Section. This will include: — 
(a) A permanent research service for ascertaining and 
following up, in a methodical manner, the economic agrarian 
movement of the district. It will be developed by the following 
means: The formation of an Agrarian Register from a census 
of the properties, plantations, and cattle; periodical reports on 
the progress of crops, on agrarian matters and other economic 
factors; special inquiries, carried out in the various districts on 
definite lines. , 
(b) A service of colonization. This will include direct 
investigation with respect to the availability and quality of 
lands capable of colonization; guides and monographs illus- 
trating definite districts and kinds of crops; direct information 
by correspondence between the Department and agriculturists, 
or others, in Italy; advice and other like assistance. 
(c) A service of rural engineering; that is to say, the study 
and initiation of public works, especially those in connection 
with irrigation, intended to render available the natural 
resources of the country, and to make the colonization of 
certain districts possible. 
(d) A direct service for encouraging the development of 
native and colonial agriculture, by means of publications, 
subsidies, and premiums; distribution of seed and plants; 
public tests of machinery and of the principal: modes of cul- 
tivation; establishment of stud farms and of preventive and 
curative stations for dealing with diseases of plants and animals. 
(e) An experimental service of concessions, which will carry 
out experiments in connection with the granting of concessions 
of domanial lands, by applying types of contracts to the 
different properties, which will vary with respect to extent, 
system of cultivation and administration. 
(2) The Technical Section will include :— 
(a) Experiments as to the most suitable technical methods 
for the cultivation of herbaceous and arboreal crops, by dry and 
irrigation methods of cultivation; the raising of cattle, from 
