350 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



to the commissioners on fisheries and game a report in writing signed by 

 him of the facts relative to the said wounding or kilhng. The said report 

 shall state the time and place of the wounding or killing, and the kind of 

 tree or crop injured or destroyed, or about to be injured or destroyed, by 

 the deer. It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale the whole or any part 

 of a deer killed under the aforesaid provision. [Approved April 29, 1914' 



POULTRY THIEVING. 



Chapter 594. 



An Act relative to the detaining of persons for breaking and en- 

 tering PLACES IN WHICH POULTRY ARE CONFINED. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Whoever, with intent to commit larceny, breaks or enters, 

 or enters in the night without breaking any building or enclosure wherein 

 are kept or confined any kind of poultry, may be detained or kept in cus- 

 tody in a convenient place by the owner of the poultry, or by his agent or 

 employee, for not more than twenty-four hours, Sunday excepted, until a 

 complaint can be made against him for the offence and he be taken upon a 

 warrant issued upon such complaint. 



Section 2. Whoever is convicted of such trespassing or breaking or 

 entering shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars 

 or by imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than two years. 



{The foregoing was laid before the governor on the twenty -fifth day of May, 

 1914, and after five days it had "the force of a laiv", as prescribed by the con- 

 stitution, as it was not returned by him with his objections within that time.) 



COUNTY FARM BUREAUS. 



Chapter 707. 



An Aci TO authorize counties to aid corporations organized to 

 promote agriculture and to improve country life. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Any corporation organized under the laws of this common- 

 wealth, not organized for profit and no part of the net income of which 

 shall inure for the benefit of stockholders, having for its corporate purpose 

 the improvement of agriculture and country life, which shall be approved 

 by the Massachusetts Agricultural College and by the county commission- 

 ers of the county in which it is located, shall be eligible to receive the county 

 aid herein authorized, but only one such corporation in each county shall be 

 approved for this purpose. 



Section 2. Every corporation approved under the provisions of section 

 one shall appoint and maintain one or more advisers in agriculture and 

 country life, who shall be appointed by the advisory board established by 

 section four hereof, and who shall hold office until their successors are ap- 

 pointed and qualified. 



