Abstract

Agriculture in Italy

This volume of the book "Relazione al Ministro di Agricoltura, Industria e Commercio sulle Bonificazio ni, Risaie ed Irrigazioni del Regno d'Italia, per Raffaele Pareto," a quarto of nearly 300 pages, with several maps and plans, is an official report on the improvement of flooded and wet lands, on the rice-grounds, and on irrigation in the kingdom of Italy. It contains many important statistical details, most of which are presented in a condensed form, in tables appended to the text, and other interesting information is to be gathered from the separate returns of the prefects of the different provinces. The total continental and insular surface of the kingdom, excluding, of course, the Austro-Italian provinces and the States of the Church, amounts to about sixty-four millions of acres, or one hundred thousand square miles.