114 . BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Sept., 



items of expenditures for the payment of any salary or compensation of 

 any officer or member of The Connecticut Poultry Breeder's Society, 

 Incorporated, or for any purpose whatsoever except the payment of 

 premiums as above stated. No local association shall receive any bene- 

 fit under the provisions of this section unless it shall, on or before the 

 fifteenth day of February of the year in which such benefit is claimed, 

 file with the secretary of The Connecticut Poultry Breeder's Society, 

 Incorporated, and with the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture 

 an itemized financial statement of the exhibitions for which such benefit 

 is asked and such other information relative to its exhibition as the 

 secretary of said society and the secretary of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture may require, and no association shall be entitled to any benefit 

 under this section for more than one exhibition in any one season. 

 iSTo association shall receive any benefit under the provisions of this 

 section until it shall have demonstrated its hona fide nature by holding 

 2iot less than two regular exhibitions without such benefit. No local 

 association organized after August 1, 1917, shall receive any benefit 

 under the provisions of this section if there shall exist in the same 

 town or city, at the time of such organization, a bona fide poultry asso- 

 ciation holdin.g regular meetings and exhibitions. 



Sec. 2085. Promotion of agricultural interest. Any corporation or 

 association organized in any county for the purpose of providing in- 

 struction and practical demonstration in agriculture and home econo- 

 mics, to promote advanced business methods among farmers, or to 

 assist in anj' manner in the development of agriculture and the im- 

 provement of country life, organized and conducted in a manner to 

 receive any portion of the money appropriated under the provisions of 

 an act of the congress of the United States, known as "The Smith- 

 Lever Bill," shall annually receive from the state upon certification of 

 the trustees of the Connecticut Agricultural College that such organiza- 

 tion is entitled to and has received a portion of the money allotted to 

 the state under the provisions of said act, the amount thereof, the date 

 when such money was paid to such organization, and the amount 

 which such organization has received from sources other than 

 under the provisions of said act during the year ended September 

 thirtieth next preceding, an amount equal to the sum received otherwise 

 than under the provisions of said act, for the purpose of defraying the 

 expenses of such organization; provided, the trustees of the Connecticut 

 Agricultural College shall certify only one such organization in each 

 county. Upon receipt of such certification the comptroller shall draw 

 his order on the treasurer in favor of the treasurer of such organization 

 for the amount provided for in this section, which amount shall not 

 exceed one thousand dollars in any fiscal year of the state. The county 

 commissioners of each county wherein such organization exists, upon 

 receipt of like certification, shall draw their order on the treasurer of 

 the county payable to the treasurer of such organization, for a sum not 

 less than one thousand dollars nor more than the amount which such 

 organization has received from sources other than under the provisions 

 of the said act of the congress of the United States during the year 

 ended September thirtieth next preceding. Any municipality, at a 

 meeting held for such purpose, may appropriate a sum for the purposes 

 of such organization to be expended Avholly therein. 



CHAPTER lOr. 

 Commissioner on Domestic Animals. 



Sec. 2086. Appointment and duties. The governor shall on or 

 before July 15, 1921, and quadrennially thereafter, appoint a commis- 

 sioner on domestic animals, who shall be a practical farmer and stock 



