INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE. 



The Objects of the Institute. 



The constitution of the Institute provides that whilst limiting its 

 action to international questions, it is to be the duty of the 

 Institute : — 



(a) To collect, elaborate, and publish, with as little delay as 

 possible, statistical, technical, or economic information regarding 

 the cultivation of the soil, its production, whether animal or 

 vegetable, the trade in agricultural products, and the prices 

 obtained on the various markets. 



(b) To send to interested parties, in as rapid a manner as pos- 

 sible, full information of the nature above-mentioned. 



(c) To indicate the wages of rural labour. 



(d) To notify all new diseases of plants which may appear in 

 any part of the world, indicating the districts affected, the spread 

 of the disease, and, if possible, efficacious means of resistance. 



(e) To consider questions relating to agricultural co-operation, 

 insurance, and credit, in all their forms, collecting and publishing 

 information which may be useful in the various countries for the 

 organisation of undertakings relating to agricultural co-operation, 

 insurance, and credit. 



(/) To present, if expedient, to the Governments, for their 

 approval, measures for the protection of the common interests of 

 agriculturists and for the improvement of their condition after 

 having previously taken every means of obtaining the necessary 

 information, e.g., resolutions passed by International Congresses 

 or other Congresses relating to agriculture or to sciences applied 

 to agriculture, agricultural societies, academies, learned societies, 

 &c. 



All questions relating to the economic interests, the legislation 

 and administration of any particular State are to be excluded from 

 the sphere of the Institute, 



