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Sec. 5. The board shall investigate such subjects relating to im- 

 provement in agriculture and horticulture in this state as they think 

 proper, and may take, hold in trust, and exercise control over dona- 

 tions or bequests made to them for promoting agricultural education, 

 or the general interests of husbandry. 



Sec. 6. The board may prescribe forms for, and regulate the re- 

 turns required of the different agricultural societies, and furnish to 

 the secretary of each such blanks as they deem necessary to secure 

 uniform and reliable statistics, and any society neglecting in any year 

 to comply with the regulations of the board, shall not be entitled to 

 the allowance from the state, as by law now provided, the year next 

 succeeding. 



Sec. 7. The board shall annually on, or before the fourth Wed- 

 nesday of May, by their chairman or secretary, submit to the Legis- 

 lature a detailed report of their doings, with such recommendations 

 and suggestions as the interests of agriculture may require. 



Sec. 8. The secretary of the board, under the direction of the 

 comptroller, shall in each year cause to be made and printed as full 

 an abstract of the returns of agricultural societies as he deems use- 

 ful, together with the report to the Legislature ; provided that the whole 

 volume shall not exceed three hundred and fifty pages octavo, and the 

 whole number to be printed shall not exceed four thousand, one thou- 

 sand for the use of the General Assembly, and three thousand for dis- 

 tribution under direction of the board. 



Sec. 9. The secretary shall visit different sections of the state for 

 the purpose of inquiring into the methods and wants of practical hus- 

 bandry ; ascertaining the adaptation of agricultural products to soil, 

 climate, and markets ; encouraging the establishment of farmers clubs, 

 agricultural libraries and reading rooms, and of disseminating useful 

 information in agriculture by means of lectures, or otherwise, and 

 shall annually make a detailed I'eport to the board. 



Sec. 10. The secretary or members delegated by the board shall 

 as far as practicable, visit the different agricultural exhibitions in the 

 state and report to the board upon matters pertaining to the interests of 

 agriculture as indicated by these exhibitions. 



Sec. 1L For the purpose of preventing the spread of contagious 

 diseases among neat cattle and other domestic animals, authority is con- 

 ferred upon the board of agriculture as follows : Whenever in the 

 judgment of the board public safety demands, said boai'd shall have the 

 power to prohibit the bringing, transportation, or introduction of any 

 cattle or other domestic anim.als into this state from any place whatever, 



