AGRICULTURAL LEGISLATION, 1916. 



PART I. — LEGISLATION CONFERRING POWERS AND 

 DUTIES ON THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



MEMBERSHIP OF STATE BOARD. 



General Acts, Chapter 49. 



An Act relative to the membership of the state board of agri- 

 culture. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Chapter eighty-nine of the Revised Laws, as amended in 

 section one thereof by section four of chapter one hundred and sixteen 

 of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and two, is hereby further amended 

 by striking out said section one and inserting in place thereof the follow- 

 ing : — Section 1 . The governor, ex officio, the president of the agricultural 

 college, the state forester, the secretary of the state board of agriculture, 

 the commissioner of animal industry, one person appointed by and from 

 the state federation of county leagues and farm bureaus, one person ap- 

 pointed by and from the Massachusetts society for promoting agriculture, 

 one person appointed by and from each agricultural society which receives 

 an annual bounty from the commonwealth, and three other persons ap- 

 pointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall 

 constitute the state board of agriculture. 



Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 

 March 21,1916. 



DAIRY BUREAU — SECRETARY OF BOARD. 



General Acts, Chapter 46. 



An Act relative to the powers of the dairy bureau and to the 

 salary of the secretary of the state board of agriculture. 



Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs: 



Section L Section eleven of chapter eighty-nine of the Revised Laws 

 is hereby amended by striking out the words "disseminate such informa- 

 tion", in the seventeenth line, and inserting in place thereof the words: — 

 take such action, — and by inserting after the word "thereof", in the 

 eighteenth line, the words:' — and improve the dairy industry, — and 

 by inserting after the word "officer", in the nineteenth line, the words: — 

 and secretary, — and by striking out all of the said section after the word 

 "direction", in the twentieth line, so as to read as follows: — Section 



