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compel attention by reason of their direct interest, have made 

 appreciable progress at the Institute. The Governments, 

 however, both in the interest of their subjects and in that of 

 commerce, must endeavour more and more to give precise and 

 immediate information. I am glad that Brazil, China, 

 Ecuador, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, Greece and Mexico 

 have during last year instituted a service of agricultural 

 statistics, or are considering methods of obtaining the informa- 

 tion required by the Institute. 



In addition, twenty-two other States have improved their 

 statistics or considered methods of doing so. This alone, 

 as Dr. Mueller has very justly observed, would suffice 

 to show the utility of the Institute. With further reference 

 to the considerable labours of this Bureau, I will say that 

 besides the Bulletin and the Statistics of Production, it has 

 closelv investigated the statistics of stocks or reserves, and 

 also trade statistics, which will be dealt with in the important 

 report of M. Zabiello, Russian delegate. Statistics of prices 

 have also been the subject of study by this Bureau; it has 

 collected the necessary material and has begun several prac- 

 tical experiments to see if it is possible to obtain more precise 

 or accurate results than those given by existing lists, for it 

 would evidently be useless to do over again a work already 

 ia existence. It has also prepared reports on the statistics of 

 other products (additional products) besides those which you 

 ordered to be studied last year. 



It is thus plain that the work has grown in a noteworthy 

 manner during the period under review. At the present time 

 we publish : — 



(1) A Monthly Bulletin of Statistics in five languages; 



(2) A Monthly Bulletin on "Agricultural Intelligence and 

 Plant Diseases," of 200-250 pp., in two languages; 



(3) A Monthly Bulletin on ''Economic and Social Intelli- 

 gence relating to Agriculture," of about 250 pp., also in two 

 languages; and 



(4) A Weekly Bibliographical Bulletin. 



In addition, an Agricultural Statistical Annual for the 

 World will replace, with the modifications to be mentioned 

 in the Report of Dr. Mueller, the account of the cultivated 

 area, and vegetable and animal production which we published 

 last year. 



