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THE seventeenth International Congress of Agriculture will be held at The Hague on June 16-23, 1937, under the patronage of the Queen of the Netherlands. The work of the Congress is divided among eight sections. Three are economic in character, and at The Hague will discuss the means which have been taken to deal with the depression in the agriculture of the Netherlands, the organization of the world butter market, the provision of credit to agriculture, the relation between State planning and agricultural co-operation, the effect on agriculture of the development of artificial wools, cottons and other products. Sections dealing with the technical and scientific aspects of agriculture will discuss the vernalization of crops, a limitation in the varieties of plants in cultivation and the protection of producers of selected seeds, artificial fertilization in the improvement of livestock, animal nutrition and other subjects. Social and educational questions will include the teaching of agricultural economics, broadcasting in the service of agriculture and health and hygiene in the rural home, a subject to which the National Federation of Women's Institutes (England) will make the principal contribution. Further particulars may be obtained from the Secretary, British Corresponding Committee, International Congress of Agriculture, 10 Doughty Street, London, W.C.I.
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International Congress of Agriculture. Nature 139, 147–148 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139147e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139147e0