No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 7 



domestic animals, and to the manufacture and inspection of commer- 

 cial fertilizers. 



Section 4. There shall be one Deputy Secretary, who shall be ap- 

 pointed by the Governor for the term of four years, at a salary of 

 three thousand dollars a year, who shall also be Director of Farmers' 

 Institutes. The other ofhcers of the Department shall be appointed 

 by the Governor for the term of four years, and shall be an Economic 

 Zoologist, (*a Commissioner of Forestry), a Dairy and Food Commis- 

 sioner who shall have practical experience in the manufacture of 

 dairy products, and a State Veterinarian who shall be a graduate of 

 some reputable veterinary college, who shall receive an annual salary 

 of twenty -five hundred dollars each. The Dairy and Food Commis- 

 sioner shall, under the direction of the Secretary, perform the duties 

 prescribed by an act approved May twenty-sixth, one thousand eight 

 hundred and ninety-three. The Governor is hereby authorized to ap- 

 point one chief clerk of the Department at an annual salary of six- 

 teen hundred dollars, one stenographer at a salary of eight hun- 

 dred dollars a year, and one messenger at a salary of six hundred 

 dollars a year, and the Dairy and Food Commissioner, the Commis- 

 sioner of Forestry and the Economic Zoologist shall each have a 

 clerk, who shall be appointed by the Governor, and who shall serve 

 under the direction of the respective commissioners aforesaid, and 

 receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars a year each. 



Section 5. That it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of 

 Institutes to arrange them in such manner as to time and places of 

 holding the same, as to secure the greatest economy and efficiency 

 of service, and to this end he shall in each county where such insti- 

 tutes are to be held, confer and advise with the local member of the 

 State Board of Agriculture, together with representatives duly ap- 

 pointed by each county agricultural, horticultural and other like 

 organizations with reference to the appointment of speakers and 

 other local arrangements. 



Seel ion C. That the Secretary may at his discretion employ ex- 

 perts for special examinations or investigations, the expenses of 

 w^hich shall be paid by the State Treasurer in the same manner as 

 like expenses are provided by law, but not more than five thousand 

 dollars shall be so expended in any one year. In his annual report 

 to the Governor, he may include so much of the reports of other or- 

 ganizations as he shall deem proper, which shall take the place of the 

 present agricultural reports, and of w'hich thirty-one thousand, six 

 hundred copies shall be published and distributed as follows: To the 

 Senate, nine thousand copies; to the House of Representatives, 

 twenty thousand copies; to the Secretary of Agriculture, two thou- 

 sand copies; to the State Librarian, for distribution among public 



'Abolished by act of Legislature of 1901 establishing a Department of Forestry. 



