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206 precautions for a right distribution of the new immigration. It is certain that the government would give moral, if not material, support to such an undertaking. In Italy, attached to the ministry of foreign affairs, is a special bureau created for the purpose of protecting and advising emigrants to seek the countries most adapted to their needs. This bureau is more than ever convinced of the necessity of aiding the formation of agricultural colonies where the Italian emigrant would be able to secure conditions more favorable to his development and assimilation.

The two governments, therefore, the one indirectly and morally, the other directly and materially, would contribute to spur on the Italian immigrant toward the destination best adapted to him by his previous mode of living and by his special aptitude for tilling the soil.