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white mulberry trees of at least three years growth. This bounty 

 was not to be paid until two years after the transplanting of the 

 trees. ^ In 1834 the act was made to include the Chinese mulberry 

 as well as the white mulberry.^ The act of 1832 also ordered a 

 payment of fifty cents for ever}^ pound of silk reeled by a specified 

 method and in 1834 this was extended to silk reeled by any method. 

 The history of the first period was repeated. The industry was not 

 stimulated to an appreciable extent by the bounties offered. This 

 is evident from the small amount — nineteen hundred eighty-nine 

 dollars — which the state paid undei the operation of these laws. 

 They were both repealed in 1839.^ Another act similar to the one 

 which was in operation in the first period was an act passed by the 

 legislature in 1829, to be operative until May 1, 1832, exempting 

 from taxation, in that year in which the crop should be harvested, 

 all lands used in the cultivation of hemp.'* 



In 1833 the influence of the farmers was strong enough to cause 

 the legislature to pass an act allowing a bounty of ten cents for every 



r, crow killed in the state. The town clerks paid the boun- 



Urows . . ^ 



ties upon proper evidence, and the state treasurer reim- 

 bursed the towns.^ Many crows were killed as a result of this bounty 

 and in 1837 it was withdrawn.^ During the four years in which the 

 bounty was offered two thousand five hundred twenty-eight dollars 

 was paid by the state. This indicates that twenty-five thousand 

 two hundred eighty crows were killed under the stimulus of the 

 bounty. 



To encourage agriculture, the assembly in 1840 passed an act 

 providing for paying, on conditions prescribed by the act, a sum 



not exceeding two hundred dollars in a single year 

 Si^'iet'^es"^'^ to each incorporated county agricultural society. 



If such a society should raise a hundred dollars 

 or more in any year, the state, to the extent of two hundred dollars, 

 would duplicate the amount thus raised, provided the society used the 

 entire amount for the encouragement and improvement of agri- 

 culture or manufactures.'^ The societies generally fulfilled these 

 conditions by the payment of premiums. Under the operation of 



1 Public Statute Laws, 1832, chap. 29. 



2 Public Statute Laws, 1834, chap. 7. 



3 Pubhc Acts, 1839, chap. 45. 



4 Pubhc Statute Laws, 1829, chap. 22. 

 ^ Pubhc Statute Laws, 1833, chap. 31. 

 " Pubhc Statute Laws, 1837, chap. 44. 

 ' Pubhc Acts, 1840, chap. 1, sec. 1, 4. 



