NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XV 951 
to the university, two to each incorporated college in the state, one 
to each auditor, and clerk of the district court, to be kept in his office, 
and one to each newspaper published in the state; the remainder to 
be distributed by direction of the society. [18 G. A., ch. 6; C, '73, § 
§ 1121.] [29 G. A., ch. 68, § 2.] 
Sec. 1673. Appropriation for. The sum of four thousand dollars is 
hereby appropriated annually for the use and benefit of said society, 
which shall be paid upon the warrant of the auditor of state, upon the 
order of the president of said society, in such suras and at such times 
as may be for the interests of said society. [20 G. A., ch. 128; C, '73, 
§ 1121.] [29 G. A., ch. 68, § 2.] 
Sec. 1675. Farmers' institutes — state aid — appropriation. When 
forty or more farmers of a county organize a farmers' institute, with a 
president, secretary, treasurer, and an executive committee of not less 
than three outside of such officers and hold an institute, remaining in 
session not less than two days in each year, which institute may be 
adjourned from time to time and from place to place in said county, the 
secretary of the state board of agriculture, upon the filing with him a 
report of such institute and an itemized statement under oath show- 
ing that the same has been organized and held and for what purpose 
the money expended has been used, shall certify the same to the auditor 
of state, which state auditor shall remit to the county treasurer of 
each county his warrant for the amount so expended not to exceed sev- 
enty-five dollars and there is hereby appropriated out of the moneys 
in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum not to exceed 
seventy-five dollars annually for such institute work in each county. 
No officer of any such farmers' institute shall receive directly or in- 
directly any compensation from said fund for said services as such 
officer. The report provided for in this section shall be filed with the 
secretary of the state board of agriculture on or before the first day 
of June of each year. When any institute fails to report on or before 
the first day of June that institute shall not receive state and for that 
year. 
All counties not holding a regular farmers' institute and where a 
short course, is held, the money appropriated for such farmers' insti- 
tute as provided in section 1675 of the supplement to the Code, 1907, 
shall apply and be payable to said "short course" upon proof of such 
organization and such "short course" having been held, being filed with 
the state board of agriculture by the officers of said short course. 
[24 G. A., ch. 58, § 1.] [29 G. A., ch. 69, § 1.] [33 G. -A.] 
Sec. 1679. Stations — bulletins. The director shall co-operate with 
the board of directors of the state agricultural society to establish vol- 
unteer stations at one or more places in each county in the state, and 
in appointing observers thereat; to supervise such stations, receive re- 
ports of meteorological events and crop conditions therefrom, and tabu- 
late 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 
