AN AGRICULTURAL BENEFACTOR.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 136, 9 June 1905, Page 3

AN AGRICULTURAL BENEFACTOR.

THE KJNG OF ITALY'S SCHEME!.

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Rome, June 7.

King Victor Emmanuel has informed the International Agricultural Conference at Borne that he will personally endow the proposed institute with an income of twelve thousand pounds a year, the States participating in the scheme to defray other expenses.

[In February last, King Victor Emmanuel, at the instance of Mr David Lubio, an American, invited the* Powers to a conference at Rome for the purpoßQ of establishing—mainly at the expense of the King of Italy—an International Chamber of Agriculture. The objects of the Chamber were set out'as:—The collection and diffusion of information. The promotion of profitable and economical distribution of products. Co operation in strengthening the boiads of interdependence uniting the nations. The promotion oS a scheme to afford protection against abases o£ transport and other " trusts," also to reasonably control middleman. To deal with diseases ot animals and plants. To prevent migration.]