990 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Sec. 1657-c. State Board of agriculture — ex-officio members — 

 othei- members — how chosen. The department shall be managed by a 

 board, to be styled the state board of agriculture, of which the governor 

 of the state, the president of the state college of agriculture and 

 mechanic arts, the state dairy commissioner, and the state veterinarian 

 shall be members ex officio. The other members of the board shall 

 consist of a president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and one 

 director from each congressional district, to be chosen as hereinafter 

 provided. [28 G. A., ch. 58, § 2.] 



Sec. 1657-(1. Agi'icultural convention — delegates to. There shall 

 be held at the capitol on the second Wednesday of December, nineteen 

 hundred, and annually thereafter, a state agricultural convention, com- 

 posed of the state board of agriculture, together with the president or 

 secretary of each county or district society entitled to receive aid from 

 the state, or a regularly elected delegate therefrom accredited in writ- 

 ing, who shall be a resident of the county; and in counties where there 

 are no agricultural societies the board of supervisors may appoint a 

 delegate who shall be a resident of the county. The president of an 

 accredited representative of the following named associations shall be 

 entitled to membership in the said convention, to wit: the state 

 horticultural society, the state dairy association, the improved stock 

 breeders' association, the swine breeders' association, and each 

 farmers' institute organized under the provisions of section sixteen 

 hundred seventy-five of the code. Provided, said farmers' institute 

 has been organized at least one year, and has reported to the state 

 secretary of agriculture, not later than November first, through its 

 president and secretary or executive committee, that an Institute was 

 held according to law, the date thereof, the names and post-ofiice ad- 

 dress of its officers. They shall also furnish the state secretary of 

 agriculture with a copy of program of each institute hereafter held and 

 one or more papers read before such institute, if papers are read. On 

 all questions arising for determination by the convention including the 

 election of members of the board, each member present shall be en- 

 titled to but one vote, and no proxies shall be recognized by the con- 

 vention. [3] G. A., ch. GG; 29 G. A., ch. 1G5, § 1; 28 G. A. ch. 58, 

 § 3.] 



Sec. 1057-e. Officers — directors — vjw-ancies. At the convention held 

 on the second Wednesday in December, nineteen hundred, there shall be 

 elected a president and vice president for the term of one year; also one 

 director of the board of agriculture from each congressional district; 

 those from even-numbered districts to serve two years and those from 

 odd-numbered districts one year. At subsequent annual conventions, 

 vacancies in the list of district directors shall be filled for two 

 years. I'.ut vacancies- occurring from death or other causes, shall be 

 filled for the unexpired term; and the board may fill any vacancy in 

 office until the next annual convention. [28 (!. A., ch. 58, § 4.| 



Sec. 10."7-i'. State rarnicrs' iiistHiilo. In connection with tlic an- 

 nual convention, either preceding or following the day on wliicli the 

 ofiicers arc elected, the hoard may liold a state farmers' institute, for 



