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results of analyses made of such substances or commodities, which 

 analyses were made prior to the passage of this section and which 

 have not heretofore been published. 



§ 307-a. Additional copies of reports of experiment station. In 

 addition to the number of copies otherwise required by law, 

 the commissioner of agriculture may, with the approval of the 

 governor, cause to be printed by the state printer such number of 

 copies of any report of the New York Agricultual Experiment 

 Station at Geneva, heretofore or hereafter made, as he deems suffi- 

 cient to meet the public demand therefor as provided by this sec- 

 tion. The expense of printing such copies shall be paid for out Expense of 

 of the appropriation for the legislative printing, at the prevailing 

 rates, upon the audit of the comptroller. Such copies shall be 

 delivered to the commissioner of agriculture and sold by him to ^aie- 

 the public at the actual cost thereof as determined by the audit of 

 the comptroller. (As added hij chapter 458 of the Laws of 

 1913.) 



§ 308. The state weather bureau. The state meteorological control. 

 bureau and weather service, shall hereafter be known as the state 

 weather bureau, and shall be under the control and management 

 of the commissioner of agriculture. Such commissioner may 

 appoint the director of such bureau but such director shall not '^''■'^'^tor. 

 receive any compensation for his services. The commissioner may 

 continue the central office and station for meteorological observa- 

 tion and experiment upon the grounds of Cornell university, and 

 shall, if practicable, establish and supervise one or more volunteer volunteer 



' ■■■ ' -^ _ _ _ stations. 



weather stations in each congressional district of the state, in 

 co-operation with the chief of the United States weather bureau, 

 for the purpose of increasing the usefulness of the weather service 

 of the state and of the United States. The sum of four thousand fiPP;"^"'" 

 five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as the commissioner deems 

 necessary, shall be annually appropriated to be paid to the com- 

 missioner by the treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, 

 issued upon the vouchers of the commissioner, for necessary 

 clerical services at such central office, for printing and distributing 

 reports of the results and operations of such bureau, in such 



