268 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [P. D. 4. 



11. The dairy bureau of the board of agriculture shall consist of three 

 members of said board, one of whom shall annually, before the first day 

 of July, be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the 

 council, for a term of three years, or for such shorter term as he may con- 

 tinue a member of the board. The governor may, at any time, terminate 

 the service of any member of said bureau, and thereupon, or upon any 

 member thereof ceasing to be a member of the board, he may appoint 

 another member in his place. Each member of such bureau shall receive 

 five dollars for each day of actual service and his travelling expenses, which 

 shall be paid by the conamonwealth out of the fund provided for in the 

 following section. The bureau, under the general direction of the board of 

 agriculture, shall inquire into the methods of making butter and cheese in 

 creameries or cheese factories, investigate all dairy products and imitation 

 dairy products bought or sold within the commonwealth, enforce the laws 

 for the manufacture, transfer and sale thereof, and shall take such action 

 as will tend to produce a better quality thereof and improve the dairy 

 industry. The secretary of the board of agriculture shall be the executive 

 ofl&cer and secretary of the bureau, subject to its control and direction. 



Section 2. Section four of chapter eighty-nine of the Revised Laws, 

 as amended by chapter one hundred and eighty-six of the acts of the year 

 nineteen hundred and eleven, and by chapter two hundred and fifty of the 

 General Acts of the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby further 

 amended by striking out the words "twenty-five hundred", in the third 

 and fourth lines, and inserting in place thereof the words: — three thou- 

 sand, ■ — so as to read as follows: • — Section 4- The board may appoint, 

 and prescribe the duties of, a secretary, who shall receive an annual salary 

 of three thousand dollars, and who, with the approval of the board, may 

 employ a first clerk at an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars, and 

 may annually expend for other clerical service a sum not exceeding five 

 thousand dollars. The secretary may arrange for lectures before the board, 

 and may issue for general distribution such publications as he considers 

 best adapted to promote the interests of agriculture; but the expense of 

 such lectures and pubhcations, unless otherwise provided for, shall be 

 paid out of the appropriation for the dissemination of useful information 

 in agriculture by the board. 



Section 3. This act shall take effect as of the first day of December 

 in the year nineteen hundred and fifteen. [Approved March 17, 1916. 



INSPECTOR OF APIARIES. 



General Acts, Chapter 45. 

 An Act kelative to the state inspector of apiaries A^fr> to his 



DEPUTIES. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Section one of chapter two hundred and twenty of the 

 acts of the year nineteen hundred and eleven is hereby amended by striking 



