PART XII. 



FINANCIAL STATEMENT 



AND 



Report of Agricultural Conditions 



BY 

 County and District Agricultural Societies in Iowa, 1906. 



SECTIONS OF LAW GOVERNING COUNTY AND DISTRICT AGRI- 

 CULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



Sec. 1658. (Code Supplement.) County societies — premiums. County 

 and district agricultural societies may annually offer and award premi- 

 ums for the improvement of stock, tillage, crops, implements, mechanical 

 fabrics, articles of domestic industry, and such other articles and Im- 

 provements as they may think proper, and so regulate the amount there- 

 of and the different grades as to induce general competition. 



(For annotations see Code, page 605.) 



Sec. 1659. (Code Supplement.) List of awards. Each county and 

 district society shall annually publish a list of the awards, and an ab- 

 stract of the treasurer's account, in one or more newspapers of the 

 county, with a report of its proceedings during the year, and a synopsis 

 of the awards. It shall also make a report of the condition of agri- 

 culture in the county to the board of directors of the state agricultural 

 society, which shall be forwarded on or before the first day of Novem- 

 ber in each year to the secretary of said society. The auditor of state, 

 before issuing a warrant in favor of such societies for any amount, 

 shall demand the certificate of the secretary of the state society that 

 such report has been made. Any society failing to report on or before 

 the first day of November shall not receive state aid for that year. 



(For annotations see Code, page 605.) 



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