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Sec. 599. Officers of hoard — compensation. — The officers of 

 the board shall be president, vice-president, secretary, assistant 

 secretary and treasurer, who shall be elected by the corporate and 

 ex officio members of the board at each annual meeting for the 

 term of one year. The secretary shall be a practical farmer and 

 well versed in agricultural science. The secretary and treasurer 

 shall not be appointed members of the board. The secretary shall 

 receive a salary of not more than twenty-five hundred dollars per 

 annum. The treasurer shall receive a salary of not more than one 

 hundred dollars per annum, and shall file with the secretary of 

 state a bond equal to the amount of the biennial appropriation to the 

 board of agriculture. 



Sec. 601. Duties of hoard. — The state board of agriculture 

 shall be and is hereby constituted the body which shall have super- 

 vision of all the legalized departments and institutions of the state 

 which are for the advancement of agriculture. It shall as a body, 

 or by a committee selected by the board be a board of examiners of 

 the state agricultural and mechanical college and experiment sta- 

 tion. While in no way limiting the power of the board of curators 

 of the state university, the board of examiners shall, at least once 

 in each year, carefully examine into the affairs of the college and 

 experiment station, including the treasurer's account, in reference 

 to the amount and sources of the income of the college and experi- 

 ment station, and how expended, the qualifications of those engaged 

 in teaching and those engaged in experimental work, and the char- 

 acter of the work done. The secretary of the board of agriculture 

 shall be furnished with the information thus elicited, together with 

 such recommendations as may be deemed necessary, for publica- 

 tion in the annual report of the board. The board of agriculture 

 shall have charge of the veterinary service of the state, the appoint- 

 ment of the state veterinarian, and, with the advice of the veteri- 

 narian, of deputies, inspectors and other assistants. It shall be the 

 duty of the board through its secretary, to gather crop and stock 

 statistics, meteorological data and information as to the best and 

 most profitable means of farming, stock-raising, fruit-growing, etc., 

 and publish the same in bulletins as frequently as may be deemed 

 expedient ; to hold farmer's institutes in different parts of the state 

 for the purpose of giving instruction in agriculture; to make an 

 annual report to the general assembly of the state, embracing the 

 proceedings of the board for the past year, and an abstract of the 

 reports and proceedings of the several agricultural societies of the 



