1002 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



be entitled to receive from the state treasury a sum equal to forty per 

 cent, of the amount so paid in premiums, up to five hundred dollars, and 

 ten per cent, additional of the amount paid in premiums over five 

 hundred dollars; but in no case shall the amount paid to any society 

 exceed the sum of three hundred dollars. When any society fails 

 to report, according to law, on or before the first day of November, 

 that society shall not receive a warrant from the state auditor for 

 that year, but the secretary of the state board of agriculture shall 

 notify the county auditor of the county in which the society is located 

 of such failure, and the board of supervisors may appoint a del- 

 egate to the annual meeting of the state agriculture [agricultural] 

 convention, said delegate to be a resident of said county. [33 G. 

 A., ch. 108, § 1.] [28 G. A., ch. .59, § 1; 27 G. A., ch. § 43, § 1; 

 C. '73, § 1112; R. § 1704.] 



Sec. 1661-al. Short cour.se — oi-ganization of in counties — state 

 aid for. That section sixteen hundred and sixty-one-a and sixteen 

 hundred seventy-five of the supplement to the code, 19 07, be amended 

 by adding thereto the following: Whenever one hundred citizens of 

 any county in the state that does not have a county or district fair, 

 receiving the state aid as above provided, or that in any year may not 

 hold a county fair, shall organize what is known as a short course, 

 with a president, secretary, treasurer and executive committee 

 of not less than five members, and shall hold a session of four or 

 more days at some place within the county and give a program, 

 designated to promote the science of agriculture and domestic science, 

 said short course organization upon filing with the auditor of state, 

 by its president, secretary and treasurer, a statement showing what 

 sums it has actually paid out in value for premiums during the period 

 of the short course of that year, together with the certificate of the sec- 

 retary of the state board of agriculture showing that it has reported ac- 

 cording to law as provided in cases of county and district agricultural 

 societies, shall be entitled to receive from the state treasurer a sum 

 equal to forty per cent, of the amount paid in premiums, but in no 

 case shall the amount so received in any county exceed two hun- 

 dred dollars. The payment from the state treasury herein provided 

 for shall be made by warrant of the state auditor as soon as due proof 

 is made to him of the holding of said short course as herein provided; 

 and there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treas- 

 ury not otherwise appropriated, the sum necessary to pay the amount 

 contemplated in this section. [33 G. A., ch. 109, § 1.1 



Sec.. ]ftf>1-a2. Farmers' institute liiiid — divcr.sion to short course. 

 I In I all counties not holding a regular farmers' institute and where a 

 short course is held, the money ai)propriated for such farmers' insti- 

 tute as provided in section sixteen hundred sevcMity-five of the su])- 

 plenient of the code, 1907, shall apply and be i)ayable to said short 

 course upon proof of such organization and sucii short course having 

 been held, being filed with the state board of agriculture by the officer.s 

 of said short course. 133 G. A., ch. 109, .5 2.] 



