394 RURAL MICHIGAN 



copies of these books are stated to have been thus 

 disposed of to July, 1921. It is hoped thereby to 

 standardize farm accounting methods. 



CONSERVATION POLICIES 



As a part of the governor's scheme of reorganiza- 

 tion of the State government, the legislature of 1931 

 established the Department of Conservation, directed 

 by a commission of six members, who should "be 

 selected with special reference to their training and 

 experience along the line of one or more of the 

 principal lines of activities vested in the Department 

 of Conservation and their ability and fitness to deal 

 therewith." This commission was to appoint a Di- 

 rector of Conservation at a salary of $5,000 a year, 

 and such assistants and employees as might be re- 

 quired under the act. The State Administrative 

 Board was to determine the number and compensa- 

 tion of these additional employees. The powers and 

 duties hitherto belonging to the Public Domain Com- 

 mission, the State Board of Fish Commissioners, the 

 Mackinac Island State Park Commission, the Michi- 

 gan Cxeological and Biological Survey, the Michigan 

 State Park Commission, and the State Game, Fish 

 and Forest Fire Commissioner, were transferred to 

 the new Department of Conservation. It was made 

 the duty of this Department "to protect and con- 

 serve the natural resources of the State of Michigan ; 

 to prevent the destruction of timber by fire and other- 

 wise; to promote reforesting of non-agricultural 



