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tural classes and thus to assure social concord in any part 

 of the world, are recorded and described in the Bulletin. 

 Without any comment on our part, which would be contrary 

 to the constitution of our Institute, a precise and intimate 

 knowledge of such tentative legislation may prove a stimulant 

 to progress, by enabling all countries to benefit from the 

 experiments made by one. 



Besides this work, which was both difficult and of some 

 magnitude, the more so because it had to be compiled from 

 numerous documents, the Bureau has been engaged in 

 investigations and in collecting publications relating to 

 statistics of co-operation and insurance against hail, questions 

 which are purely technical and largely new. Reports will 

 be presented to you with regard to these subjects by our 

 colleagues, M. le Chev. de Pozzi, Austrian delegate, and 

 M. Bolle, Belgian delegate. 



Bureau of Statistics. 



Although the technical and economic Bureaux were not 

 in existence, so to speak, a year ago, the Bureau of Statistics 

 had already commenced work. 



According to instructions given by the last Assembly 

 a Bulletin has been published since January, 1910, but it 

 was not until the summer that this Bulletin began to be of 

 real interest and of practical importance. The report of my 

 colleague, the Delegate of Germany, states the efforts which 

 are still necessary on the part of the Governments to place 

 the Bulletin in a position to render all the services of which 

 it is capable. As a farmer, however, I can affirm that the 

 Bulletin has been of practical advantage during the past 

 summer and autumn, to those who were acquainted with the 

 information it contained. Thus, in Italy, the bad wheat 

 harvest did not, as is usual in such cases, produce a panic 

 and consequently unreasonably high prices. Both producers 

 and dealers in wheat were aware in good time that the world's 

 crop was not so bad as our own, and as a result were able 

 to make suitable arrangements without being obliged to 

 derive their information from sources likely to be unduly 

 influenced by speculation. Statistics of production, which 



