Institute of Belarusian Culture

A meeting of members was held in the agronomic section of Inbelkult, at which Bonch-Asmalouski, secretary of the agricultural section of the State Planning Commission (Dziarzhplan), gave a report on the subject: "The State of Agriculture in Belarus According to the Data of 1917."

The speaker carefully set out the division of Belarus, within its extended borders, into 6 agricultural districts: 1) Palesse (extensive livestock raising), 2) South-Eastern (buckwheat and potato), 3) Northern Mahiliou (intensive farming), 4) Sluck (farming), 5) Northern Minsk (three-field) and 6) Viciebsk (flax growing and grass-field farming, with developed dairy farming).

Taking part in the debate on the report were A. Smolich, Ya. Piatrovich, Ya. Dyla, E. Trakhimau and Kh. Tarashchanka.

Ya. Troska, forester of the Parycy forestry district, Babrujsk county, submitted to Inbelkult a draft of Belarusian terminology for forest management and forestry. The draft comprises two and a half thousand words, which he collected over the time of his work in the Babrujsk region.

This work is soon to be edited by a special commission of Inbelkult and published.