PART X^ 



FINANCIAL STATEMENT 



AND 



Report ot Agricultural Conditions 



BY 

 County and District Agricultural Societies in Iowa, 1905. 



SECTIONS OF LAW GOVERNINO COUNTY AND 

 DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



Sec. 1658. (Code Supplemeut.) County societies — Premiums. County 

 and district agricultural societies may annually offer and award premiums 

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

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

 ments as they may think proper, and so regulate the amount thereof 

 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 shal 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 agriculture in. 

 the county to the board of directors of the state agricultural society, 

 which shall be forwarded on or before the first day of November, in 

 each j'ear 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.) 



Sec. 1660. (Code) Appropriations from county. When a county 

 agricultural society shall have procured in fee simple, free from incum- 

 brance, land for fair grounds not less than ten acres in extent, or hold 

 and occupy such amount of land by virtue of a lease, and own and have 



