expenses in the performance of their duties, in which case such expenses are paid by the State. The society is required to hold an annual fair at Salt Lake City and award premiums. (Ibid., 1898, secs. 2120-2129, as amended by Acts of 1901, chap. 43. \

FARMERS' INSTITUTES.

The board of directors of the Agricultural College, with the advice of the faculty of the same, are authorized to hold farmers' institutes in each county at least once in the school year, and make rules and regulations governing the same. Those conducting institutes are required to promote the organization of local agricultural societies. An annual report of the institute work shall be made by the board for free distribution to the farmers of the State. (Ibid., secs. 2095, 2096.)

STATISTICS.

County assessors are required to collect agricultural statistics and report to the Commissioner of Statistics. (Ibid., chap. 55.)

DISEASES OF ANIMALS.

It is unlawful to bring or drive any domestic animal affected with contagious disease into the State.

Any person having in charge any animal affected with glanders or farcy shall at once kill it; failing to do so any peace officer may perform the act.

It is unlawful to allow diseased animals to run at large on uninclosed land, or on a highway, and the owner shall not sell any such animal without notifying the purchaser.

Penalties are attached for violating the law. (Rev. Stat. of 1898.)

It is unlawful for any person selling milk or dairy products to have in his possession, where milch cows are kept, cattle having tuberculosis or other contagious diseases.

The law prescribes that it is the duty of the Dairy and Food Commissioner to cause all cattle having contagious disease to be killed, if kept in violation of this act. (Laws of 1899, chap. 48.)

It is the duty of persons owning, controlling, or ranging sheep to have them dipped at least once a year in some preparation that will kill scab. (Rev. Stat., 1898, chap. 7.)

HORTICULTURE.

The State of Utah is divided into 3 horticultural districts, and a State Board of Horticulture is appointed consisting of 1 member from each horticultural district. The members of this board are to be selected with reference to their practical knowledge of horticulture, and no more than 2 shall belong to the same political party. Their term of office is 4 years. The Governor shall designate a member of the board to act as secretary. The board shall have power to fix the location of its office. The board is required to make rules regulating the prevention and suppression of diseases and pests among horticultural stock and products, and places infected with disease are made public nuisances. The members of the board receive $200 per year each, with the exception of the secretary, who is to receive $600 and an allowance of $250 for traveling expenses. The board is required to hold 4 meetings a year at the seat of government and report biennially to the legislature. The State Treasurer is authorized to receive donations and bequests for the promotion of horticulture. (Ibid., secs. 1168-1182, as amended by Acts of 1899, chap. 47.)

Local horticultural inspectors to be appointed by the boards of county commissioners of the several counties are provided for and their duties and compensation are fixed. (Ibid., sec. 1176, as amended by acts of 1899, chap. 47.)

The State Board of Horticulture is authorized to import the birds known as the German Kohl Meisen, and an appropriation is made for that purpose. Such birds are to be used in extermination of insect pests, the results of their operations reported by the State board and published in bulletins for free distribution. (Acts of 1901, chap. 36.)

An appropriation of $2,000 is made for the extirpation of the San Jose scale. (Ibid., chap. 76.)

It is the duty of nurserymen or owners of orchards, etc., to spray infected trees with disinfectants, but not while the trees are in bloom.

It is the duty of any nurserymen or persons receiving trees from points outside the State to report such facts to the county inspector. (Rev. Stat. of 1898; laws of 1899, chap. 47.)

BEES.

The board of county commissioners may appoint inspectors of bees, who shall be paid out of county funds.

All hives of bees shall be inspected at least once a year, and the inspector has authority to take charge or control of diseased bees and appurtenances for treatment, or destroy such bees, produce, or hives, and their contents, as may be infected. (Laws of 1892, p. 52.)

VERMONT.

STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

The State Board of Agriculture is composed of the Governor, the president of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, and 3 other persons, to be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate, who shall hold office for 2 years; and the board shall appoint from its number a secretary. The duties of the board are the promotion of the interests of husbandry and agricultural education throughout the State. The board is required to collect statistical information concerning agriculture, farms, and farm property, especially with relation to abandoned farms, and also to publish information regarding the advantages offered by the State to capitalists, tourists, and farmers. (Vt. Stat., 1896, secs. 246-248, 2450, as amended by Acts of 1898, No. 8.)

FARMERS' INSTITUTES.

The board is required to hold one meeting in each county annually, may employ lecturers and other assistants in conducting these meetings, and is required among other things at such meetings to discuss forestry, tree planting, roads and road making. (Laws of 1896, secs. 246–248.)

COMMERCIAL FEEDING STUFFS.

The term "concentrated commercial feeding stuffs" is defined. Packages or lots offered for sale in the State shall have affixed thereto in a conspicuous place a printed statement certifying the number of net pounds in the package or lot, the name, brand, or trade-mark of the same, the name and address of the manufacturer, place of manufacture, and a chemical analysis. Manufacturers and others before offering commercial feeding stuffs for sale in the State shall file a certified copy of such statement with the director of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, and upon request shall deposit with him not less than 1 pound of such feeding stuff with an affidavit that the same is a fair sample thereof. Manufacturers and dealers are required to pay to the director of the experiment station a tax of 10 cents for every ton offered for sale in the State of Vermont, and shall affix to each car or package of such feeding stuff a tag to be furnished by the director stating among other things that such tax has been paid. The director of the experiment station is charged with the enforcement of the act, is empowered to cause analyses to be made of such feeding stuffs, and is required to report all violations of the act to the State Treasurer, who is authorized to prosecute the same. Penalties for violation of the act are prescribed. (Laws of 1898, No. 83.)

DISEASES OF ANIMALS.

It is unlawful to allow sheep infected with "hoof ail" or foot rot, or scab, to run at large, and the owner, in addition to fines, shall be liable to any person damaged by his offense.

Infected sheep running at large upon a common highway or on lands not belonging to the owner shall become forfeited to any person who takes them up, and the owner shall have no action at law for recovery.

It is unlawful for a person knowingly to bring into the State cattle affected with pleuro-pneumonia or animals known to be affected with infectious or contagious

disease.

The selectmen of towns and aldermen of cities may enforce regulations to prevent the spread of infectious or contagious diseases among domestic animals and report to the Governor.

It is the duty of the Board of Agriculture to prohibit the introduction of animals infected or exposed to contagious disease, and to establish quarantine.

The value of cattle or animals killed by order of the board shall be appraised just

before killing. The limit of appraisal of cattle is $40 each. If a bovine, after a postmortem examination, is found to have had tuberculosis or other dangerous disease, the owner shall receive one-half the appraised value; otherwise the owner shall receive full value of the appraisal.

No indemnity shall be paid for a slaughtered animal that has not been owned in the State at least six months previous to the discovery of the disease.

HORTICULTURE.

Any town may appropriate a sum of money to be expended in exterminating worms on shade, ornamental, or forest trees in public parks or highways.

The selectmen have charge of the treatment and the expenditures. (Laws of 1898, No. 156.)

The use on fruit trees or vines of spraying solutions containing less than 3 pounds of unslacked lime to 50 gallons is prohibited. (Laws of 1898, No. 155.)

FERTILIZERS.

The law prescribes the conditions of sale of commercial fertilizers, and also requires that fertilizers costing over $10 per ton shall be accompanied by a printed statement certifying the number of net pounds of fertilizer in a package, the name, brand or trade-mark, name and address of manufacturer, etc., place of manufacture, chemical analysis showing ingredients, etc.

The law prescribes that manufacturers or importers shall pay $100 for a license, and are also required to file with the State Treasurer a bond in the sum of $1,000 for the payment of forfeiture and for the violation of the provisions of this act.

It is unlawful to sell as fertilizer any pulverized leather, raw, steamed, or roasted, etc., without an explicit printed certificate conspicuously placed.

All manufacturers and importers of fertilizers are required to furnish to the director of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station a complete list of the brands, and agents selling them, not later than February 1, and on the 1st of each succeeding month until May 1, each additional agent or dealer appointed.

It is the duty of the director to have one analysis or more made of each fertilizer annually, and the result published monthly.

VIRGINIA.

COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE.

The Commissioner of Agriculture is appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, for a term of 2 years, and his office is required to be at the seat of government. He may employ a clerk, chemist, and geologist. His duties are to investigate matters pertaining to agriculture, horticulture, dairying, cattle and sheep raising, diseases and pests of grain, fruit, and fruit products, and remedies therefor and the prevention thereof, together with the subjects of irrigation and inclosures. He shall distribute seeds and cooperate with the United States authorities. He is required to make an annual report. (Code, secs. 1784-1790.) He is given control of the analyzing of fertilizers and administration of the law relative thereto. (Sup. to the Code, secs. 1788a, 1790b.)

The salary of the Commissioner of Agriculture is $1,500 per annum. (Code, sec. 183.)

STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.

The State Board of Agriculture is composed of 10 persons, whose principal business must be the cultivation of the soil, to be appointed by the Governor, 1 from each Congressional district of the State. Not more than two-thirds of the members of the board shall belong to any one political party. Their term of office is 4 years. The Department of Agriculture shall be under the management of this board, and the Commissioner of Agriculture is made ex officio a member and secretary and treasurer. An appropriation of $10,000 a year is made for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the act. The board is required to meet annually in the city of Richmond, and no member of the board other than the Commissioner of Agriculture shall receive any compensation, but actual expenses in attending its meetings shall be allowed. (Ibid., sec. 1790a.)

FARMERS' INSTITUTES.

Farmers institutes are held under the auspices of the State Board of Agriculture, which devotes certain of its funds to that purpose.

DISEASES OF ANIMALS.

It is the duty of the board of control of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College to protect domestic animals from contagious and infectious diseases, and to establish and maintain quarantine lines and other sanitary regulations; also to cooperate with the live-stock quarantine commissioners and officers of other States, and with the United States Secretary of Agriculture, to establish quarantine lines, etc., and to protect the live-stock industry against Texas or splenetic fever.

It is the duty of the board to send a veterinarian to investigate and report any malignant disease and take measures to prevent the disease spreading. Diseased animals must not leave grounds quarantined.

Notice of quarantine lines must be sent to the Governor.

Railways must disinfect their cars used in transportation of live stock.

It is unlawful for any person to knowingly bring into the State any animal infected with or exposed to contagious disease.

Animals affected with contagious disease shall not run at large or with healthy stock; nor shall they be sold or transferred. (Laws of 1896, No. 327, as amended by Laws of 1900, No. 832.)

The law prescribes that hogs or fowls that die from contagious diseases shall be burned or buried immediately. (Laws of 1896, No. 327.)

HORTICULTURE.

The board of control of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station is made a State Board of Crop-pest Commissioners, whose duty it is to appoint a State Entomologist and Pathologist who shall act as State inspector to eradicate and prevent the spread of San José scale. The board shall provide rules and regulations under which the inspector shall proceed to control, eradicate, destroy, and prevent the dissemination of pests.

The board may provide quarantine laws and regulations for the sale and transportation of all nursery stock within or entering the State.

Provision is made for the annual inspection of all nursery stock in the State prior to September 1, and the issuance of certificates, etc. (Laws of 1900, chap. 109.)

FERTILIZERS.

The Commissioner of Agriculture has jurisdiction and care of the fertilizer laws. (Laws of 1890, p. 82.)

The law prescribes the duty of every manufacturer or dealer of commercial fertilizers, provides for the payment of 15 cents per ton as an inspection license fee; provides for the issuance of tags; requires that tags be placed on each bag of fertilizers, etc.

The law provides that the constituent parts of fertilizers shall be printed upon each bag, barrel, or package. Nothing in this act shall restrict sales of acid phosphate, kainit, etc.

The purchaser may request a sample of the seller to send to the Commissioner of Agriculture for analysis. The Commissioner of Agriculture is directed to publish the result of the analysis.

All fertilizers sold in violation of the law shall be seized and held subject to the order of the court. (Laws of 1900, chap. 10.)

WASHINGTON.

BUREAU OF STATISTICS, AGRICULTURE, AND IMMIGRATION. ·

The Secretary of State is made Commissioner of Statistics, and a Bureau of Statistics, Agriculture, and Immigration is directed to be established in his office. He is required to collect statistics on agriculture, and is empowered to send for persons and papers and examine witnesses under oath. (Const., Art. 2, sec. 34; Code, secs. 2256-2264.)

STATE FAIR.

The State fair is established as a State institution for the purpose of the advancement of stock raising, agriculture, and horticulture in the State. It is required to be held at North Yakima on the last Monday of September of each year. This fair is controlled by a board of five commissioners called the State Fair Commission, to be

appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate, for a term of 4 years. A president, a secretary, and treasurer shall be elected by the board for a term of 1 year. This commission has full control of the State fair, with power to make rules and regulations for the same, employ necessary assistants, and award premiums. The office of the commission is located at North Yakima, and the meetings of the commission are required to be held there. The members of the commission receive no compensation beyond mileage paid to them while engaged in the business of the fair. (Code, sec. 2332.)

FARMERS' INSTITUTES.

Farmers' institutes are held voluntarily by the faculty of the agricultural college.

PARIS GREEN.

It is unlawful to offer for sale in the State adulterated or low-grade paris green, London purple, sulphur, or other material or compound for spraying purposes. Paris green is required to contain not less than 50 per cent of arsenic trioxide in combination and not more than 4 per cent of water. Soluble arsenic trioxide and commercial arsenic are required to contain not less than 96 per cent of arsenic trioxide. It is made the duty of the State Commissioner of Horticulture and the county inspectors under his supervision to enforce the provisions of the act, and the State Agricultural Experiment Station is required to analyze all such compounds submitted to it by the State Commissioner of Horticulture. (Laws of 1901, chap. 22.)

DISEASES OF ANIMALS.

The law provides that local boards of health shall cause to be collected all isolated animals and cattle infected with contagious disease, but the provisions of the act shall not apply to sheep in counties where there is a duly appointed sheep inspector. Local boards of health may order dangerously diseased animals killed and buried at the expense of the town.

The law prohibits the conveyance of infected animals through towns, counties, etc. The regulations of the State Board of Health take precedence over the regulations of any local board.

The State board has power to establish and maintain quarantine and condemn diseased animals to be killed, without compensation to the owner. (Laws of 1895, act of March 20.)

The law provides for the creation of the office of State Veterinarian, who shall be the professor of veterinary science of the agricultural college and experiment station, and he shall become a member of the State Board of Health. The law prescribes his duties.

The Governor, with the State Veterinarian, may cooperate with the United States authority to carry out the objects of this act. (Laws of 1895, act of March 22.) The commissioners of the county may appoint a sheep inspector.

In order to transport or convey sheep into the State it is necessary to obtain a certificate from the inspector to the effect that said sheep have been examined and found free from disease within 3 months prior to conveyance.

Sheep must not be removed from one county to another without obtaining a certificate of health within 6 months prior to removal.

It is unlawful to bring into the State any sheep infected with scab or any other contagious or infectious disease.

No owner of any toll bridge or ferryboat shall permit sheep to cross unless the person in charge can show a valid certificate of health. (Laws of 1897, act of February 26.)

HORTICULTURE.

The Commissioner of Horticulture is appointed by the Governor. Before his appointment he must produce a certificate from the faculty of the agricultural college that he is a skilled horticulturist. His office is to be located at Tacoma. His salary is $1,000 per annum, and allowance is made for necessary expenses not to exceed $500. He is required to maintain supervisory direction over the horticultural interests of the State and to enforce the laws relating to the prevention and extermination of pests and diseases of horticultural stock and products. His term of office is 4 years. This officer supersedes the former State Board of Horticulture. (Laws of 1897, chap. 119.)

Fruit culturists in any county are authorized to form a horticultural society, and such society is empowered to nominate a qualified person for county fruit inspector,