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schools are not doing their full duty to the State, and especially 

 to the agricultural people of the State, until there is established, 

 in one of them at least, a thorough course of agricultural instruc- 

 tion, which shall fit teachers to teach any and all branches of 

 agriculture in our common schools. In the normal school which 

 has recently been established, in a purely agricultural section of 

 the State, it would seem very fitting that one of the courses 

 should be a course in agriculture. We trust the school official of 

 the State will give this matter his attention, and see to it that the 

 coming legislature makes a special appropriation, if necessary, 

 for establishing this course. 



AGRICULTURAL LAWS. 



The legislature of 1903 amended several of the laws relating 

 to agriculture, and passed some new acts of importance in this 

 line. We append the text of all these which we think are of 

 special interest to our farmers. Wt have thought best to print 

 the full text of the law relating to county and local agricultural 

 societies, so that the readers of this report who are connected 

 with the fairs of the State may familiarize themselves with the 

 law and see that these fairs are conducted according to the stat- 

 ute. 



All violations of any of the laws the enforcement of which is 

 entrusted to this Department, which have been reported to us, 

 have been carefully and thoroughly investigated. The amend- 

 ments in the law relating to feeding stufTs appear to have been 

 such as to have the desired effect. But very few complaints 

 have been entered at this office since the new law went into 

 effect. 



LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



Enacted or amended by the legislature of 1903. 



AN ACT to regulate the sale and analysis of concentrated com- 

 mercial feeding stufifs. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 

 Legislature assembled, as follows : 



Section i. Every package of any concentrated commercial 

 feeding stuff, as defined in section three of this act, used for feed- 

 ing farm live stock, sold, offered or exposed for sale in this state. 



