Part 1.1 REPORT OF SECRETARY. 51 



Legislation of 1917. 



Of the nine recommendations introduced by the Board to the 

 last session of the Legislature, six became law and three failed 

 of passage. The bill to establish a director of organization and 

 markets, the bill to amend the State drainage laws, and the bill 

 to increase the appropriation for the State inspection of apiaries 

 from $2,000 to $3,000, did not pass. The State Board of Agri- 

 culture and the State Department of Health were authorized 

 jointly to make drainage surveys. The law relating to distribu- 

 tion of poultry premium bounty was amended; the apple 

 grading law was amended so as to make the party responsible 

 for the packing place his name on closed packages; and the 

 appropriation for clerical assistance of the Board was increased 

 from $5,000 to $5,300. Two new sections were added to the 

 nursery inspection law in order to take care of the white pine 

 blister rust situation, and an appropriation of $50,000 was given to 

 the Board for this work. Protection was removed from starlings. 



A number of dog laws were presented to the Legislature, and 

 out of them came the resolve appointing a special commission, of 

 which your secretary is a member, to make a thorough revision 

 of the dog laws and present them to the present Legislature. 



A bill was also passed by the Legislature providing an ap- 

 propriation of $50,000 for the construction of a State building 

 on the grounds of the Eastern States' Exposition, in Spring- 

 field, and a commission appointed to do the work, of which 

 your secretary is also a member. 



Publications. 

 The following publications were issued by this Board during 

 1917, and may be secured upon application to this office: — 



1 Separate from sixty-fourth annual report. 



