Part I.] 



REPORT OF SECRETARY 



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Legislative Appropriations. 



Object for which appropriate d. 



1917. 



Appropria- 

 tion. 



Used. 



Administration: — 

 Secretary's salary, 



First clerk, 



Clerks 



Secretary's travel, 



Incidentals 



Printing reports, .... 

 Members' travel 



Inspection and encouragement: - 

 Nursery inspection. 

 Apiary inspection, 

 State Ornithologist, 

 Disseminating information, . 

 Dairy Bureau, .... 

 Encouragement of dairying, 

 Encouragement of orcharding, 

 Bounties to agricultural societies. 

 Bounties to poultry associations, . 

 Premiums to children and youths. 

 Special exhibitions. 

 White pine blister rust. 



$3,000 00 

 1,800 00 

 5,315 00 

 500 00 

 3,500 00 

 5,000 00 

 1,707 42 



14,000 00 

 2,000 00 

 3,500 00 

 8,552 99 

 9,800 00 

 6,263 90 

 500 00 



30,000 00 

 2,000 00 

 2,000 00 

 2,000 00 



50,000 00 



$3,000 00 

 1,800 00 

 5,303 69 

 373 47 

 3,496 70 

 3,946 78 

 1,255 12 



13,992 44 

 1,911 20 

 3,500 00 

 8,548 95 

 9,798 93 

 4,317 21 

 496 70 



28,027 13 

 2,000 00 

 1,998 65 

 1,979 08 



26,576 18 



The Board and the Anti-Aid Amendment. 



The acceptance by the people at the last election of the con- 

 stitutional amendment prohibiting the payment by the State or 

 any county or town of any money to any organization or insti- 

 tution not publicly controlled, deeply affected the personnel of 

 this Board, for upon its becoming effective on October 1, 1918, 

 31 persons will automatically cease to be members because of 

 the peculiar wording of the law creating the Board, which 

 makes representation by certain members contingent on the 

 agricultural societies receiving aid from the State. 



Your secretary in following the matter in the Constitutional 

 Convention deemed it his duty to call the executive committee 



