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good-will and activity ; or the specialists who direct it for 

 their competence and ability, which have enabled the Perma- 

 nent Committee to submit to the General Assembly 

 information which will be most useful for suggesting to the 

 various Governments the means whereby the future success of 

 the Institute can be assured. 



II. The Work of the Second Division. 



The work of the Second Division and the results which 

 have been obtained can be summarised under two main 

 headings : 



(A.) Enquiry into the organisation of the Agricultural 

 Statistical Departments of adhering States : — 



The Permanent Committee decided that, before preparing 

 statistics regarding agricultural produce, it was necessary to 

 know the exact methods employed in various countries for the 

 collection of agricultural statistics and the organisation of 

 the Departments concerned. This fundamental statistical in- 

 formation is indispensable to the Institute for its future work. 



This preliminary but extensive enquiry was made with 

 tact and ability, and its publication will be invaluable to. 

 the agricultural world. It will, moreover, enable a Govern- 

 ment which has not yet organised a system of agricultural 

 statistics to do so on the lines of the one most adapted to its 

 economic conditions and to the special character of its agri- 

 cultural products. The countries which already possess such 

 a service will also have the opportunity of completing or 

 improving their own system. 



Another Report, dealing with the resolutions adopted by 

 international agricultural and statistical Congresses, has also 

 been prepared. 



(B.) Essentially statistical work: — 



The statistical work is divided into two categories, viz., 

 preparatory and normal. The preparatory work consists 

 of: — 



(1) A census of agricultural production. It is necessary 

 that the Second Division should possess, for its statistical 

 duties, a statement of the agricultural resources of the various 



