xlviii BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Summary of Recommendations of the State Boakd of 

 Agricultuee. 



1. That the annual salary of the general agent of the 

 Dairy Bureau be increased from $1,800 to $2,300. 



2. That the method of publishing the annual report be 

 changed so as to provide for a more economical expenditure 

 of the appropriation of $6,000 for this purpose. 



3. That a special appropriation of $2,500 be made for 

 collecting and distributing all available facts relating to the 

 agricultural resources, advantages and opportunities of the 

 Commonwealth. 



■i. To provide for an appropriation of $500 for the pur- 

 chase and preservation of agricultural books, photographs, 

 exhibits, specimens and the like for the library of the Board. 



5. To change the month from October to August in which 

 bounty to the agricultural societies shall be paid, and to in- 

 crease the distance which the grounds and buildings of new 

 societies must be from those of established societies. (Two 

 bills.) 



6. To provide for an increase from $1,000 to $3,000 in 

 the appropriation for premiums to children and youths. 



7. To provide for restricting the " poultry premium 

 bounty," so called, to premiums offered and paid through 

 poultry associations, as by the State Board of Agriculture, 

 and to further provide for certain perfecting amendments 

 to the law authorizing the payment of said " poultry pre- 

 mium bounty." 



8. To provide for a division of the appropriation for lec- 

 tures before the Board and extra clerical assistance, so as to 

 permit the payment for said lectures from the appropriation 

 for disseminating useful information in agriculture, and so 

 as further to permit the payment of all clerical assistance 

 in the office of the Board, with the exception of the first 

 clerk, from an appropriation of $5,000 for this purpose 

 alone. 



9. To authorize the sale of posters containing extracts 

 from the trespass laws. 



