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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



dairy prod- 

 ucts, etc. 



Fines payable 

 to the treas- 

 ury. 



To take effect 

 Sept. 1, 1891. 



bought or sold within tlie Commonwealth ; to enforce all 

 laws for the manufacture, transfer and sale of all dairy 

 products and all imitation dairy products within the Com- 

 monwealth, with all the powers needed for the same ; to 

 investigate all methods of butter and cheese making in 

 cheese factories or creameries, and to disseminate such 

 information as shall be of service in producing a more 

 uniform dairy product, of higher grade, and better quality. 



Sect. 12. All fines recovered under this act shall be 

 payable to the treasury of the Commonwealth. 



Sect. 13. This act shall take effect on the first day of 

 September in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one. 



Compensation 

 of members 

 of dairy bu- 

 reau. 



An Act providing Compensation for the Members of the 

 State Dairy Bureau. 



[Chap. 139, Acts of 1892.] 



Section 1. From and after the first day of January in 

 the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two the members of 

 the state dairy bureau shall be allowed from the treasury of 

 the Commonwealth five dollars a day for each day of actual 

 service in the discharge of their duties as members of said 

 bureau, in addition to their actual travelling expenses. 

 The amount so allowed shall be paid from the sum now 

 limited by section eight of chapter four hundred and 

 twelve of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and 

 ninety-one for carrying forward the work of said bureau. 



Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 



To obtain and 

 circulate in- 

 formation 

 relative to 

 abandoned 

 farms. 



Expenditures 

 not to exceed 

 $2,000. 



An Act to authorize the State Board of Agriculture to col- 

 lect and circulate Information relating to Abandoned 

 Farms. 



[Chap. 280, Acts of 1891.] 



Section 1. The state board of agriculture is hereby 

 authorized to collect all necessary information in regard 

 to the opportunities for developing the agricultural re- 

 sources of the Commonwealth through the repopulating 

 of abandoned or partially abandoned farms, and cause 

 the facts obtained, and a statement of the advantages 

 offered, to be circulated where and in such manner as 

 the said board may consider for tlie best interests of 

 the Commonwealth. 



Sect. 2. In order to properh- carry out the provisions 

 of section one of this act, a sum not exceeding two 



