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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA.
sellor, of Berlin, advanced certain proposals, differing in part, but not essentially, from those of Dr. Lorenz (but being shorter, I give them preference here), and having thoroughly discussed them, offered the following resolution :—
“ The International Congress of Cultivators of Land and Forest is of the opinion that land and forest cultivation cannot, without disadvantage, dispense with exact and statistical comparable data of its condition and progress in the different civilized states, that the previous exertions on the part of the International Statistical Bureaus have proved insufficient for the purpose of collecting the same ; that the necessary comparable results are rather to be expected from investigations whose field, although limited, is clearly and fixedly determined by v the separate governments unitedly and internationally, and whose reciprocal interchange and communication is insured by the same.”
Therefore, the International Congress of Cultivators of Land and Forest requests the Imperial and Royal Austrian Government, "to take measures to bring about international unity of action in advancing the statistics of laud and forest.”
While recognizing the points of assistance in bringing about such unity in the memorial laid before the congress on this question, the speaker recommends "an investigation about once in ten years, and to be undertaken at the same time by all states, if possible.” This should determine the areas, at least approximately, and determined separately for as small districts as possible, of land devoted to the general varieties of productions of land and forest, to the cultivation of the most important sorts of produce, and the yield of an average harvest of these sorts. Further, it should ascertain the areas of the different varieties of forest and the amount of timber contained therein, the amount of stock, the number of cattle slaughtered, and finally, the approximate number of farms and of farming population.
He further thinks it well to recommend that this international unity of action should extend to the early intercommunication of the following facts, which should be comparatively and concisely given, at least once a year. These are the results of the harvests ; the market and exchange rates of the productions of land and forest, the cost of transportation