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to you a Report, and also as to the method of combating 

 Dodder, which will be dealt with in the Report of Professor 

 Cuboni. When the Permanent Committee decides to under- 

 take inquiries into insurance against hail, it is proposed to 

 deal also with the agricultural meteorological service in 

 general. Our illustrious Vice-President, M. Louis Dop, will 

 present a Report on this subject, in regard to which the 

 Bureau has also collected much information. 



Bureau of Economic and Social Intelligence. 



The work falling to this Office has been difficult and 

 complex. To begin with, reviews and other periodical pub- 

 lications dealing with the questions studied by the Bureau, 

 e.g., co-operation, insurance, agricultural credit and wages, 

 had to be obtained, as the Institute possessed only a small 

 number of these publications last summer. Communications 

 were then opened with the Governments of different countries 

 ancl with Associations in order to obtain the necessary 

 information, and on 30th September the first number of the 

 Bulletin appeared. 



The first issues contained monographs on the position of 

 co-operation, insurance, and agricultural credit in the prin- 

 cipal countries. This account corresponds to the method 

 followed by the Institute with regard to statistics of produc- 

 tion, and renders a real service to science. In fact, no similar 

 work is in existence, and it would be difficult to find collected 

 elsewhere the information it contains. In the case of certain 

 countries it would be necessary to consult a large number of 

 publications, while in the case of others it would be almost 

 impossible to obtain exact and reliable information. That 

 the Institute has been able to give this information, as, for 

 example, in the case of Japan, is due to the fact that it has 

 been supplied to us by the Governments. These monographs 

 are really valuable, and a second edition has had to be 

 published. The monthly bulletins now contain everything 

 that is new and of importance as regards agriculture in these 

 three branches of economic science. 



Attempts either by legislation or by governmental action to 

 solve the complex problem of the amelioration of the agricul- 



