CHAPTEE XII 

 GOVERNMENTAL WORK FOR COUNTRY LIFE 



The legislature of 1921 gathered together into one 

 department the several governmental agencies of 

 Michigan which had functions directly related to 

 agriculture, placing the department under a com- 

 missioner with a salary of $5,000 a year, empow- 

 ered, with the approval of the State Administrative 

 Board, to appoint assistants and employees and de- 

 termine their compensation. To this new depart- 

 ment were at once transferred the Department of 

 Animal Indiistry, the State Food and Drug Commis- 

 sioner, the State Veterinary Board, the Immigra- 

 tion Commission, the Commissioner of Immigra- 

 tion, and the State Director of Markets, The powers 

 and duties of the State Board of Agriculture in re- 

 lation to the inspection and regulation of orchards, 

 vineyards and nurseries, and apiaries, the testing of 

 agricultural seeds, the analysis of commercial fer- 

 tilizer, the testing and examination of insecticides, 

 and the analysis and testing of commercial stock 

 foods, the investigating and improving of marketing 

 conditions, were likewise intrusted to the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture of the State. The offices of 

 State Inspector of Orchards and Nurseries, and of 



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