1006 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



society, a weather and crop service, wliicli sliall cooperate witli the 

 national weatlier bureau for the purpose of collecting weather and 

 crop statistics and meteorological data, and disseminating the weather 

 forecasts and storm and frost warnings among the people, and to pro- 

 mote the growth of knowledge of meteorological science and the 

 climatology of the state. |23 G. A., ch. 29, § 2.] 



Sec. 1678. Director. The central station shall be at the seat of 

 government, under the charge of a director and assistant, to be ap- 

 pointed by the governor for a term of two years, upon the recommenda- 

 tion of the board of directors of the state agricultural society; the 

 assistant to be an officer of the United States weather bureau, if one 

 shall be detailed for that purpose. [Same, § 3.1 



Sec. 1679. Stations — observers — bulletins — speakers and lecturers. 

 The director shall cooperate with the board of directors of the state 

 agricultural society to establish volunteer stations at one or more 

 l)laces in each county in the state, and in appointing observers thereat; 

 to supervise such stations, receive reports of meteorological events and 

 crop conditions therefrom, and tabulate the same for permanent 

 record; to issue weekly weather and crop bulletins during the season 

 from April first to October first, and to edit and cause to be published 

 at the office of the state printer a monthly weather and crop review, 

 containing meteorological and agricultural matter of public interest 

 and educational value. The state printer shall print three thousand 

 copies thereof, which shall be distributed from the office of department 

 of agriculture. The directors may require a larger issue for such sub- 

 scribers as will pay the expense thereof. The director shall have ad- 

 visory power to cooperate with the farmers' institute organizations of 

 the several counties of the state, for the purpose of arranging dates 

 and providing speakers or lecturers, with a view to economy of time 

 and travel in attending instituies; such institutes to be held as nearly 

 as practicable in circuits, and at such dates as will enable speakers to 

 attend two or more such institutes each week. [2 8 G. A., ch. 58, 

 § 19; 24 G. A., ch. 63, § 2; 23 G. A., ch. 29, § 4.1 



Sec. 1680. Report. The director shall compile and make an an- 

 nual report to the governor, which shall contain a complete review and 

 summary of the results of the service for the year, which may include 

 articles and papers upon subjects of meteorological science and cli- 

 matology, and extracts from approved works and publications on such 

 subjects, which shall be ])rinted and bound in such numbers as the 

 executive council shall direct, the expenses to be paid as in case of 

 other reports. |23 G. A., ch. 29, § r>.| 



Sec. 1681. Appropriation. There is hereby ai)propriated, out of 

 any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum 

 of twenty-seven hundred dollars annually, to be drawn and expended 

 upon the order of the president and secretary of the department of 

 agriculture, for such service, including the salary of the director, 

 which shall not exceed fifteen huadrcMl dollars per annum. |2S G. A., 

 ch. r,S, S 19; 24 G. A., ch. (;:5, S 1.1 



