Commissioner of Agriculture 11 



The following have died : 



George Bernhard, assistant commissioner; James P. Clark, assistant com- 

 missioner; C. L. Enders, nursery inspector; A. M. Kibbe, agent. 



For a full list of conductors and lecturers in farmers' institutes, 

 sec report of bureau of farmers' institutes which constitutes a sep- 

 arate volume of this report. 



The held work is scrutinized and supervised through bureaus in 

 the department. For this purpose there have been established in 

 the department ten bureaus as follows: 



1. Bureau of Veterinary Service. 



2. Bureau of Dairy Products. 



3. Bureau of Horticultural Inspection. 



4. Bureau of Fertilizers and Feeding Stuffs. 



5. Bureau of Food Inspection. 



6. Bureau of Agricultural Statistics. 



7. Bureau of Agricultural Labor. 



8. Bureau of Farmers' Institutes. 



9. Bureau of Accounts. 

 10. Legal Bureau. 



SYNOPSIS OF THE AGRICULTURAL LAW 



In my last report I called attention to the fact that there had 

 been 85 amendments to the Agricultural Law since its enactment 

 as a general law in 1893. In 1909 the Legislature consolidated 

 the laws pertaining to agriculture and passed them as one law 

 known as chapter 1 of the Consolidated Laws, being chapter 9 of 

 the Laws of 1909. This law contains 15 articles and its pro- 

 visions are to be enforced by the Commissioner of Agriculture. 

 The work is divided up under the following headings, viz.: 



Article 1 provides for the title of the law as follows: " This 

 chapter shall be known as the Agricultural Law." 



Article 2 makes general provisions as to the power of the com- 

 missioner, his assistants, employees and appointees; as to prosecu- 

 tion for penalties; as to evidence to be used in trials; as to the dis- 

 posal of fines and moneys recovered and as to the annual report 

 that shall be made. 



Article 3 deals with dairy products and imitations thereof. It 

 defines butter, cheese, oleomargarine, butterine, imitation butter, 



