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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Following is the bill that passed the Twenty-eighth General 

 Assembly, establishing the department of agriculture: 



A bill for an act to create a department of agriculture, and repeal sec- 

 tions sixteen hundred and fifty-three (1653), sixteen hundred and fifty-four 

 (1654), sixteen hundred and fifty-five (1655), sixteen hundred and fifty-six 

 (1656), sixteen hundred and fifty-seven (1657), sixteen hundred and seven- 

 ty-four (1674), sixteen hundred and eighty-two (1682), sixteen hundred 

 and eighty-three (1683), of the code, and chapter forty-two (42) of the acts 

 of the -Twenty-seventh (27th) General Assembly, and amena sections six- 

 teen hundred and seventy-nine (1679), and sixteen hundred and eighty-one 

 (1681) of the code, and making an appropriation therefor. 



Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of Iowa: 



Section 1. For the promotion of agriculture, horticulture, forestry, 

 animal industry, manufactures and domestic arts, there is 

 hereby established a department to be known as the "department of agri- 

 culture," which shall embrace the district and county agricultural societies 

 organized or to be organized under existing statutes, and entitled to re- 

 ceive aid from the state, the state crop and weather service, and the offices 

 of the dairy commissioner and state veterinarian. 



Section 2. The department shall be managed by a board, to be styled 

 "the state board of agriculture," of which the governor of the state, the 

 president of the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, the state 

 dairy commissioner, and the state veterinarian shall be members ex officio 

 The other members of the board shall consist of a president, vice-president, 

 secretary, treasurer and one director from each congressional district, 

 to be chosen as hereinafter provided. 



Section 3. There shall be held at the capitol on the second Wednes- 

 day of December, 1900, and annually thereafter, a state agricultural conven- 

 tion composed of the state board of agriculture, together with the presi- 

 dent or secretary of each county or district society entitled to deceive aid 

 from the state, or a regularly elected delegate therefrom accredited in writ- 

 ing, who shall be a resident of the county; and in counties where there 

 are no agricultural societies the board of supervisors may appoint a dele- 

 gate who shall be a resident of the county. The president or an accredited 

 representative of the following named associations shall be entitled to 

 membership in the said convention, to wit: the State Horticultural Society, 

 the State Dairy Association, the Improved Stock Breeders' Association 

 and the Swine Breders' Association. 



Section 4. At the convention held on the second Wednesday in Decem- 

 ber, 1900, there shall be elected a president and vice-president for the term 

 of one year; also one director of the board of agriculture from each con- 

 gressional district; those from even numbered districts to serve two years 

 and those from odd numbered districts to serve one year. At subsequent 

 annual conventions, vacancies occurring from death or other causes shall 



