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successive seasons, in such manner as in the opinion of the board will best 

 demonstrate the value thereof for agricultural uses. The products of culti- 

 vation, except hay sold in the bale, shall not be sold in open market, but 

 shall be used for the supply of public institutions, and such institutions shall 

 pay to the joint board such sums for the said products as they would pay if 

 the same were purchased in open market, and the sums so received shall be 

 added to the sum herein provided for. 



Section 3. In carrjdng out the provisions of this act, and of said chap- 

 ter seven hundred and fifty-nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred 

 and thu'teen, the joint board may expend a sum not exceeding ten thousand 

 dollars, from the treasury of the commonwealth, in addition to the sums 

 authorized by section seven of said chapter. [Approved June 2, 1914- 



Chapter 759 of the Acts of 1913 designated the State Board 

 of Agriculture and the State Board of Health as a joint board 

 for the reclamation of wet lands, and appropriated $15,000 for 

 this work. 



PART II. — LEGISLATION REFERRING TO FORESTRY. 



DISPOSAL OF SLASH. 



Chapter 101. 



An Act relative to the disposal of slash or brush following wood 

 or lumber operations. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Every owner, tenant or occupant of land, and every owner 

 of stumpage, who cuts or permits the cutting of wood or timber on wood- 

 land owned or occupied by him or on which he has acquired stumpage by 

 purchase or otherwise, and which borders upon the woodland of another 

 or upon a highway or railroad location, shall clear the land of the slash and 

 brush wood then and there resulting from such cutting for such distance, 

 not exceeding forty feet, from the woodland of such other person, highway 

 or railroad location as the local forest warden shall determine, and within 

 such time and in such manner as he shall determine. 



Section 2. Any person who cuts or causes to be cut trees or bushes 

 or undergrowth within the limits of any highway or public road shall dis- 

 pose of the slash and brush wood then and there resulting from such cutting 

 within such time and in such manner as the forest warden of the city or 

 wherein such cutting is done shall determine. 



Section 3. Whoever neglects to comply with the directions of the 

 f Oldest warden with regard to the disposal of slash and brush, as provided 

 in sections one and two of this act, may ])e punished by a fine of not less 

 than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 



Section 4. This act shall take effect on the first day of January in the 

 year nineteen hundred and fifteen. [Approved February 25, 1914. 



