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ARTICLE XII HIGHWAY COMMITTEE. 



SECTION 1. The Highway Committee shall co-operate with the Division 

 of Highways, State Department of Public Works and Buildings, in its efforts 

 to secure good roads and shall report from time to time such measures as 

 may be recommended for the improvement of public highways. 



ARTICLE XIII ENTOMOLOGY. 



SECTION 1. The Committee on Entomobogy shall be advisory to the 

 State Entomologist in the planning experiments for the prevention of dam- 

 age to crops by injurious insects, and make report to the Board of Directors 

 of the progress of the work. 



ARTICLE XIV COMMITTEE ON SOIL INVESTIGATION AND EXPERIMENTS. 



SECTION 1. The Committee on Soil Investigation and Experiments shall 

 advise and co-operate with the director of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station in making chemical and physical examination of the various soils 

 of the State, and in ascertaining by direct experiment in laboratory and 

 field, the crops and treatment best suited to each; it shall visit the soil ex- 

 periment fields and report to the board the result of the investigations and 

 experiments. 



ARTICLE XV AMENDMENTS. 



SECTION 1. These by-laws may be amended at any regular meeting of 

 the Board of Directors by a majority of those present voting in the affirma- 

 tive. 



ARTICLE XVI RULES. 



SECTION 1. Robert's Rules of Order shall govern in all cases not other 

 wise provided for. 



RULES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF COUNTY FARMERS' INSTITUTES. 



RULE 1. The director of each district consisting of more than one 

 county shall, at the request of the Executive Committee, or the secretary 

 of institutes, call a conference of delegates from the several counties of his 

 district, at some convenient point, consisting of the following: 



(a) One officer (or person selected by the officers) of each county 

 farmers' institute. 



(b) One officer (or person selected by the officers) of the department of 

 household science of each county farmers' institute. (In counties in which 

 the department is not organized, the officers of the county farmers' institute 

 may appoint a delegate to represent the women of the county with the 

 express understanding that said delegate shall, prior to the time for holding 

 the county farmers' institute, make faithful effort to organize such depart- 

 ment.) 



(c) The county superintendent of schools for each county in the dis- 

 trict. 



The purpose of these conferences is to arrange the times and places for 

 holding the next county institutes and to cooperate in securing speakers. 



All necessary expenses of the three said delegates in attending the dis- 

 trict conference shall be paid by the Illinois Farmers' Institute upon itemized 

 bills approved by the director of the district. 



NOTE 1. Rule 1 does not prohibit the attendance at the conference of 

 more than three delegates. Indeed the number who may attend is unlim- 

 ited; but the expenses of three only can be allowed from the State Insti- 

 tute funds. 



NOTE 2. Delegates from independent institutes are invited to come to 

 the conference at their own expense. Their requests for speakers, however, 

 will receive the same attention by the secretary of institutes as those coming 

 from the regular county organization. The purpose of the conferences 



