The establishment of an analytical service for soil surveys and analyses, a request for consultation on proposed legislation in irrigation and land tax, license fees for wine and the compilation of a booklet of information for local shippers to foreign countries, were among the matters discussed at the seventeenth meeting of the General Agricultural Council, which has a membership of Englishmen, Jews, Arabs, German Christians and Catholic monks, all engaged in agriculture. Three of the five Jewish members are American.
The demand for an analytical service as part of the Department of Agriculture is considered essenlian in view of large sums invested in land development and the importance of such investigations in the progress and development of agriculture generally and plantation industries particularly. In addition to a soil survey, analyses of soils, irrigation and agricultural products, will be conducted if the Government adopts the proposal.
Other maters reviewed were proposals for improvement of village roads in the citrus belt; a shipping board to control export of citrus fruit to ensure better marketing; regulations to prevent despatch of unripe fruit; proposals involving expenditure, such as animal nutrition, tuberculosis controlcerction of dipping tanks for control of tick-fever; and a proposal to publish an agricultural journal.
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