Seventy-Tiiikd Annuai. Eepokt 1217 



You who are farmers and who go forth deteiiiiined to combat 

 for the improvement of your farms, for the acquisition of credit 

 through mutual credit societies for the purchase of new equip- 

 ment and the clearing of new land — do not forget that as an 

 incident to all these things jou must be a supjiorter of monetary 

 reform, which will give safety and flexibility to our entire credit 

 system. 



Chairman Glyxx : " The Agricultural Law ; Its Improvement 

 and Enforcement," will now be the subject of an address by 

 Honorable Calvin J. Huson, Commissioner of Agriculture. 



THE AGRICULTURAL LAW; ITS IMPROVEMENT AND ENFORCEMENT 



Calvin J. Husox 



The agricultural law constitutes chapter one of the consolidated 

 laws of the state. It is a compilation in part of a large number 

 of independent legislative enactments covering a long period of 

 time and a wide range of subjects. These were revised, and such 

 of their provisions as it seemed wise to retain, and various new 

 provisions, were consolidated and reenacted in a single act, being 

 chapter nine of the laws of 1909, which, with some amendments 

 subsequently made, constitutes the agricultural law of the state 

 today. This law, of course, has mainly to do with agriculture and 

 agricultural products. It reaches out, however, in many directions 

 and covers many subjects indirectly connected with agri- 

 culture. It may be stated in a general way that its purpose is to 

 raise the standard of agriculture in the state, to provide means 

 for making our farms more productive and our crops more bounti- 

 fid ; to search out by rigid inspection disease in plant and animal 

 life and prescribe and apply the remedy; to stay the ravages of 

 insect pests that threaten destruction in field, orchard and vine- 

 yard; to do and perform, in fact, those numberless things the 

 farmer, either singly or collectively, is unable to perform, on the 

 theory that it is to the interest of all the people of the state that 

 onr great agricultural interests should be ]")romoted and the pro- 

 duction of our food products stimulated and their healthfulness 

 safeguarded. 



