SUPPLEMENT. 747 



If * boll-keeper is charged with the bull-keeping by contract, then, in the first place, 

 in charging him, it is to be seen if his capacity can be trusted if he have proper stalls 

 and a place for exercising the animals, according to article 5 of the law, and if he has or 

 buys sufficient food of a proper quality. Care should be taken not to award this position 

 to the highest bidder; but should proposals be received, it must be with the condition 

 that the township have the choice among the applicants, and the position is only then 

 to be awarded to that one who will serve for the least wages, provided there is certain 

 ground for believing that the bulls will be well cared for by him. In the township min- 

 utes it is to be recorded that no doubt exists on this point. 



4. The post of bull-keeper under the provisions of the law is not to be awarded for 

 less than six years, but as n rule should be awarded for a longer time, so that the bull- 

 keeper may be in a position to make the necessary outlays for the proper fullillment of 

 his contract. The township has, however, the right to release the bull-keeper from his 

 contract before its expiration if any failure in the fulfillment of his duty can be shown. 

 The bull-keeper's wages must be so fixed as to give him a proper remuneration for his 

 time, trouble, and expense. 



5. Under the exceptions of the law contained in article 2, section 2, townships are to 

 observe the following principles: 



The awarding of the post of bull-keeper for a shorter period than six years is only to 

 be permitted where exceptional local or personal conditions render a six-year contract 

 impracticable. Its awarding to several persons at once may only take place under cer- 

 tain local conditions, as, for example, if the farms belonging to the township be located 

 far apart, and then only if there is no jisk of a disadvantageous rivalry between the bull- 

 keepers on the too frequent use of a single bull. 



If bulls of diiferent breeds are kept, then, in exceptional cases, where no doubtexists, 

 a special keeper may be allowed for the bulls of each individual race. 



The alternate awarding of the post of bull-keeper to individual cattle-owners may only 

 be permitted in those townships which consist of scattered farms, and then only incases 

 where it is shown that tho.sa cattle-owners among whom the bull-keeping is to alternate 

 are capable of fulfilling their duties in a proper manner. 



The foregoing exceptions are based upon the condition that the rule of article 5 in ref- 

 erence to location and kind of places for exercise are complied with. Moreover, excep- 

 tions of this kind are only to be permitted for a stated period. 



AETICLE 3. 



6. It is the inspector's duty in the regular inspection of bulls, as well as by special re- 

 quest of county authorities, to examine whether the townships fulfill their duty in ref- 

 erence to bull-keeping and to give their opinion to the said authorities. They are also 

 by joint counsel with the county authorities and bull-keepers to aim at improvements 

 and as much as possible prevent irregularities. 



The county authorities in carrying out the law (according to articles 1 and 2, and in 

 fulfillment of the above rules) are to hear the opinion of the inspectors and as far as pos- 

 sible to commission the board of inspectors or a, member of the same with the investiga- 

 tion of the bull-keeping in any given township; also to provide a check through another 

 member of the board of inspectors to see that the commission is properly executed. If 

 the county authorities have doubts on the opinion of the board of inspectors, they are 

 to address themselves to an overinspector for an inquiry, submitting a statement of the 

 facts in the case. 



Where the district authorities are called on to decide upon an appeal, it is left to their 

 choice to ask the decision of the inspector or* overinspector, or, if required, the central 

 stelle for agriculture. 



AETICLE 4. 



7. The increase of fees for the use of bulls is to be allowed in townships where (a) cat- 

 tle-owning is distributed very unevenly among the population ; (6) a loss to the town- 

 ship is occasioned or increased through bull-keeping, and has thereby to be borne by 

 tax-payers who derive no immediate profit from it, as, for instance, trades-people or land- 

 owners owning cattle in the township, or those who keep their own bulls, or where (c) 

 on account of there being several breeds of cattle more bulls have to be kept than if 

 there were only cows of one and the same race. In such townships a proper fee is to be 

 charged, and the increase or decrease of the same only to be allowed by the county au- 

 thorities when there is no unjust burden occasioned to some tax-payers to the benefit of 

 others. 



Such increase or decrease of fees in townships which sustain-no loss and do- not incut 

 any loss thereby will not as a rule be objected to. 



