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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Secretary and 

 clerks and 

 their salaries. 

 G-.S.16, §4. 

 1869, 96, § 2. 

 1879, 235. 

 1881, 26-t. 



1883, 184. 



1884, 66. 

 1887, 245. 

 1891, 300. 

 1892, 143. 

 1893, 120. 



Board to be 

 overseers of 

 agricultural 

 college. 

 1866, 263, § 1. 



to investi- 

 gate subjects 

 relating to 

 agriculture, 

 take dona- 

 tions, etc. 

 G.8.16, §5. 



Board to fix 

 days for an- 

 nual meetings 

 of agricultural 

 societies, etc. 

 G.S.16, §6. 

 1866, ISO, § 3. 



to report to 

 general court. 

 G.8.16, §7. 



Secretary to 

 publish 

 abstracts, etc. 

 G.S.16, §8. 



may appoint 

 agents. 

 G.S.16, §9. 



Sect. 4. The board may appoint and prescribe the 

 duties of a secretary, who shall receive a salary of twenty- 

 five hundred dollars a year ; and who, at such times as 

 the board shall approve, may employ a first clerk at a sal- 

 ary of sixteen hundred dollars a year, an assistant clerk 

 at a salary of twelve hundred dollars a year, and may 

 expend for other clerical services in his office, and for 

 lectures to be given before the board of agriculture at its 

 annual and other meetings, a sum not exceeding eight 

 hundred dollars. 



Sect. 5. The board shall be a board of overseers of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College, with powers and 

 duties to be defined and fixed by the governor and coun- 

 cil, but such powers shall not control the action of the 

 trustees of said college, or negative their powers and 

 duties as defined by chapter two hundred and twenty of 

 the acts of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three. 



Sect. 6. The board shall investigate such subjects 

 relating to improvement in agriculture in this common.- 

 wealth as they may think proper, and may take, hold in 

 trust, and exercise control over donations or bequests 

 made to them for promoting agricultural education or the 

 general interests of husbandry. 



Sect. 7. They may fix the days on which the different 

 agricultural societies shall commence their exhibitions, 

 and may prescribe forms for and regulate the returns 

 required of said societies, and shall furnish to the secre- 

 tary of each society such blanks as they may deem neces- 

 sary to secure uniform and reliable statistics. 



Sect. 8. They shall annually, on or before the fourth 

 Wednesday of January, by their chairman or secretary, 

 submit to the general court a detailed report of their 

 doings, with such recommendations and suggestions as the 

 Interests of agriculture may require. 



Sect. 9. The secretary of the board shall iu each year 

 cause to be made and published for distribution as full an 

 abstract of the returns of the agricultural societies as he 

 may deem useful. 



Sect. 10. He may appoint one or more suitable agents 

 to visit, under the direction of the board, the towns in the 

 commonwealth for the purpose of inquiring into the meth- 

 ods and wants of practical husbandry ; of ascertaiuhig the 

 adaptation of agricultural products to soil, climate, and 

 markets ; of encouraging the establishment of farmers' 



