294 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



PUBLISHED BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER. 



§ -1:13 Howell's Statutes: The Board of each State institution shall by the 

 first (lay of November preceding the regular sessions of the Legislature, present 

 to the Governor a report for the two fiscal years closing on the 30th day of 

 the preceding September, which report shall be furnished the State printer for 

 publication lij the first day of November of the year iuhe>i made. * * * * 



The Boards of each State Institution which is essentially educational in 

 character, shall also annually, before tlie first day of November, make out and 

 present to the Suj^erintendent of Public Instruction a report, etc. 



GENERAL LAW. 



§ 354 Howell's Statutes : It shall be the duty of the several officers and 

 boards of officers of this State and also of the several public institutions thereof 

 ^Q * * * * cause their respective reports to be placed in the hands of the 

 printer of the laws of this State for publication as soon as practicable after the 

 close of the fiscal year. (The fiscal year closes by law September 30.) 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



§ 2331 Howell's Statutes requires that local Horticultural societies shall 

 report during the month of November in each year to the Secretary of the 

 State Horticultural Society; such reports to be used as correspondence in com- 

 piling the report of the State Horticultural Society. 



§ 2330 Howell's Statutes makes it the duty of the Secretary of the State Horti- 

 cultural Society to report to the Secretary of State in December of each year. 



FUTURE PLANS. 



It is my earnest desire to conform perfectly with the manifest purpose and 

 spirit of the above laws and to place the entire material for the annual volume 

 for 1886 and for each succeeding issue in the hands of the State printer for 

 publication, "as soon as practicable after the close of the fiscal year." 



LOCAL SOCIETIES; WHEN TO REPORT AND WHAT TO REPORT. 



Whether it will be possible to make this as early as the date specified 

 in section 413, depends entirely upon the degree of cooperation extended by all 

 concerned, and I take this opportunity particularly to request the officers of 

 district and local Agricultural societies to forward their reports to the Secre- 

 tary of the State Agricultural Society, Mr. J. C. Sterling, Monroe, Mich., at 

 the earliest possible date after the holding of the annual fair. 



I 'lease give in addition to a concise summary statement of receipts and 

 expenditures such particulars as will be of tnore than local ijiterest. Put in 

 only such matter as you are aching to know about regarding other societies and 

 other places, because that is just the kind of information that other people are 

 anxious to have of your society and your neighborhood. 



PREMIUM LISTS. 



Premium lists and awards it would neither be possible nor desirable to print 

 in full for each of the forty-four local societies. No one would be pleased with 

 the taxes necessary to pay for such a waste of public printing, nor would 

 farmers be willing to pay postage or freight on a report big enough to contain 

 so much useless matter. 



