PART XVI. 



Laws Relating to the Iowa Department of Agriculture 



'i'lic laws cii-ating- and defining the work of the Iowa Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, tiic law with reference to the collection of 

 crop statistics for pu])lieation in the Iowa Year Book of Agricul- 

 lure, the law regulating the sale, transfer and use for public service 

 of stallions and jacks, and those w'ith reference to state aid to 

 Short Courses, Farmers' Institutes and the Iowa State Fair are 

 herewith presented. These are the laws with which the Iowa De- 

 partment of Agriculture has most particularly to deal. 



CHAPTER 3. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETIES AND STOCKBREEDERS' ASSOCIATIONS 

 AND STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATIONS. 



Section 10.">:J. Meeting of state a'4Ticultuial society — repealed. 



[28 G. A., ch. 58, § IS.] 



[See sec. 1657-a.] 



Sec. 1654. Officers — terms — repealed. 128 G. A., cli. 58, § 18.1 



[See sec. 1657-a.] 



Sec. 1653. Premium list — repealed. [28 G. A., ch. 58, § 18. J 



[See sec. 1657-a.] 



Sec. 1656. Annual report — repealed. [28 G. A., cli. 58, § 18.] 



[See sec. 1657-a.] 



Sec. 1657. Distribution of reports — repealed. [28 G. A., cli. 58, 

 § 18.] 



[See sec. 1657-a.] 



Sec. 1657-a. liei)eal. That section sixteen hundred fifty-tliree, six- 

 teen hundred fifty-four, sixteen hundred fifty-five, sixteen hundred fifty- 

 six, sixteen hundred fifty-seven, sixteen liundred seventy-four, sixteen 

 hundred eighty-two and sixteen hundred eighty-three of the code, and 

 chapter forty-two of the acts of the twenty-seventh general assembly, 

 be and the same are hereby repealed. [28 G. A., ch. 58, § 18.] 



Sec. 1657-b. Department of a{?i'iculture — what embraced therein. 

 For the promotion of agriculture, horticulture, forestry, animal in- 

 dustry, manufactures, and the domestic arts, there is hereby established 

 a department to be known as the department of agriculture, which 

 shall embrace the district and county agricultural societies organized 

 or to be organized under existing statutes and entitled to receive aid 

 from the state, the state weather and crop service, and the offices of the 

 dairy commissioner and state veterinarian. [28 G. A., ch. 58, § 1.] 



