4 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The Secretary read a letter from C. M. Coiiaat, agent of Monroe 

 Creamery, in regard to the withholding of a portion of the awards 

 made on creamery butter at the la-^t E istern M line Fair. By vote 

 the matter was referred to a coaimittee with in-strujrioiis to report 

 conclusions, and Blossom of Audroscoigin, Djeiiug (jl Yuik and 

 Shaw of Somerset were appointed that commUtee. 



The member from York presented the following resolutions : 



WJiereas, On account of the growing demand by the farmers of 

 the State for more institute work, and 



Whereas, The present appropriation is inadequate to meet the 

 demand for such work, therefore 



Resolved, That this board of agriculture recommend to the legis- 

 lature the following appropriations: that the sum of $3,000 be 

 appropriated for the purpose of holding farmers' institutes in the 

 several counties of the State ; and that the salary of the Secretary 

 of the Board be increased to $1000 to compensate for the increased 

 labor called for. 



The resolution was amended by changing the sum asked for 

 the institute work to $2,500, and was then passed unanimously. 



President Ellis from the committee to present draft of bill pro- 

 viding for a more equitable apportionment of the bounty to 

 agricultural societies made report in the following form which was 

 accepted and adopted : 



[The bill was subsequently passed hy the legislature and is now 

 a law.] 



AN ACT to amend Chapter 58 of the Revised Statutes, relating to 

 State aid to Agricultural Societies. 



Be it enacted by the Senate ani House of Representatives in 

 Legislature assembled, as folloios : 



Section 1. Section eleven of chapter fifty-eight Revised Statutes 

 is hereby amended by striking out the first nine lines and inserting 

 the following : There shall be appropriated annually trom the State 

 Treasurer a sum of money not exceeding one cent to each inhabitant 

 of the State, which shall be divided among the legally incorporated 

 agricultural societies of the State not provided for by special enact- 

 ment according to the amount of premiums and gratuities awarded 

 by said societies ; provided that no society shall receive from the 

 State a sum greater than that actually raised and paid by the 



