332 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



Third. — To regulate the use of the State bounty given to 

 the different agricultural societies, but in no sense to regulate 

 the management of these societies. They to continue the 

 management of their own affairs, as they see fit, to use their 

 own money as they choose, and also to draw the State 

 bounty or not, as they like ; but, if they draw it, this Board 

 to determine whether it shall be applied for premiums, or 

 used in giving instruction by means of traveling schools, 

 institutes, and otherwise, each society to be fully heard as to 

 its wishes in the matter. 



The present system is the outgrowth of legislation, and it 

 will require legislation to remedy it. Let us ask for that 

 legislation ourselves, before it is pressed upon us by public 

 sentiment, remembering that other States are leading us to- 

 day, and we must not lag behind. 



