Al^I^OUJ^CEMENT. 



FARMERS' INSTITUTE MATTER, WHY OMITTED ; COUNTY SOCIETY 

 REPORTS, WHEN NEEDED ; BACK NUMBERS OF REPORTS 

 WANTED TO EXCHANGE. 



LOCAL SOCIETIES. 



§ 2310 Howell's Statutes provides that on or before December 20th of each 

 year the ofiBcers of coimty, town and district agricultural societies shall trans- 

 mit to the Secretary of the State Agricultural Society^an annual report. 



STATE AGKICULTUEAL SOCIETIES. 



§ 2290 HoTvells Statutes makes it the duty of the State Agricultural Society 

 to transmit its annral report to the Secretary of State during the month of 

 January. 



BOAED OF AGRICULTURE. 



Section 1, Law 173, 1883, (see p. 43 of this volume) requires that the 

 Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture shall report to the legislature at 

 every regular session thereof, and to the Governor on the first Wednesday of 

 January of each year -when the legislature is not in session ; which report shall 

 embrace ***** proceedings of the State Agricultural Society, and 

 of the County and District Agricultural Societies to be approved by the Board, 

 and that 8,000 copies of this report shall be printed and bound annually, prior 

 to the first day of June. 



STATE REPORTS. 



Under these laws it has been customary to present a financial report of the 

 State Board of Agriculture to the Governor or legislature by the first Wednes- 

 day of January, but to defer the printing of the full volume embracing Society 

 and Institute matter till well al»ng in the following summer. Thus it comes 

 about that at the Farmers' Institutes in February when asked for our latest 

 reports, we can only offer one carrying a date that is two years old, and the 

 effect is about as good as to offer a last week's daily paper. 



INTENT OF LAW. 



That this is not the desire of the framers of our State laws may be very 

 clearly seen from the following general provisions covering all such cases. 



