[982] See Martens, N.R.G. 2nd Ser. XXXI. p. 272, and Kaufmann, "Welt-Zuckerindustrie und internationales und coloniales Recht" (1904).
[983] See above, §§ [462] and [471].
[984] See Martens, N.R.G. 3rd Ser. I. p. 874.
Agriculture.
§ 586. Three general conventions are in existence in the interest of Agriculture:—
(1) On June 7, 1905, the Convention for the Creation of an International Agricultural Institute[985] was signed at Rome by forty States. The Institute has its seat at Rome.
[985] See above, § [471a], and Martens, N.R.G. 3rd Ser. II. p. 238, and Treaty Series, 1910, No. 17.
(2) Owing to the great damage done to grapes through phylloxera epidemics a general convention[986] for the prevention of the extension of such epidemics was concluded on September 17, 1878, at Berne. Its place was afterwards taken by the convention[987] signed at Berne on November 3, 1881. The original members were:—Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Portugal, and Switzerland. Belgium, Italy, Spain, Holland, Luxemburg, Roumania, and Servia acceded later.
[986] See Martens, N.R.G. 2nd Ser. VI. p. 261.
[987] See Martens, N.R.G. 2nd Ser. VIII. p. 435.