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percentages it coutains of crude fat and crude protein," Tlie Secre- 

 tary ol Agriculture is charged with the enforcement of this law. 



LINSEED OIL INSPECTION. The act of 23d of April, A. D. 1901, 

 provides "That no person, firm or corporation shall manufacture or 

 mix for sale, sell or oiler for sale, under the name of raw linseed oil, 

 any article which is not wholly the product of commercially pure lin- 

 seed or flaxseed. Nor shall any person, firm or corporation manu- 

 facture or mix for sale, sell or offer for sale, under the name of boiled 

 linseed oil, any article unless the oil from which said article is made, 

 be wholly the product of commercially pure linseed or flaxseed, and 

 unless the same has been heated to at least two hundred and twenty 

 five degrees, Fahrenheit." The Secretary of Agriculture is charged 

 with the enforcement of this law. 



SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS. The law creating the Depart- 

 meot provides for "the employment of experts to make special 

 examinations and investigations." These experts are selected by 

 the Secretary, and the results of their examinations are printed 

 either in special Bulletins or in the Annual iieport. The investi- 

 gations are upon subjects relating to the agricultural industry. 



BULLETINS. The Secretary is also directed to "publish from 

 time to time such bulletins of i^iformation as he may deem useful 

 and advisable, the number not to exceed five thousand copies of 

 any one bulletin." One hundred and six such publications have been 

 issued since 1895. 



Ai^NUAL KEPOKT. Each year the Secretary is directed to 

 "make an Annual Report to the Governor," and in this report "he 

 may include so much of the reports of other organizations as he 

 shall deem proper." Thirty-one thousand six hundred copies are 

 authorized to be distributed; 9,000 to the Senate, 20,000 to the 

 House of Representatives, 2,000 copies to the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture, 500 copies to the State Librarian, and to the State Experiment 

 Station. 100 copies. 



BOOKS OF ACCOUNT. The General Books of Account of the 

 Department are in charge of the Secretary, and the Special Books 

 are in charge of the several Division officers. 



REPORTS OF DIVISION OFFICERS. Monthly reports of the 

 operation of each Division for the preceding month are made to 

 the Secretary by the chief of each Division, and special reports 

 from time to time are made as may be necessary in order to keep 

 the Secretary fully informed as to the work of the several Divisions. 

 At the close of the year, full reports of the work of each Division 

 are made out and transmitted to the Secretary, and printed in 

 the Annual Report of the Department. The care of the library, 

 the reading of proof, and the mailing lists, are in charge of the Chief 

 Clerk. 



