SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, FOR THE YEAR 1882. PENNSYLVANIA BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, 1882. Members Ex-Officio.. His Excellency Governor H. M. Hoyt. Hon. A. K. Dunkel, Secretary of Internal Affairs. Dr. E. E. Higbee, Superintendent of Public Instruction. Hon. J. A. Lemon, Auditor General. Prof. James Y. McKee, Acting President Pennsylvania State College. G. W. Hood, Indiana. Hon. Henry M. Hoyt, OFFICIAL LIST. President, (ex officio.) Hon. H. M. Hoyt. Vice Presidents. D. H. Foresman, Lycoming. Dr. J. P. Edge, Chester. Executive Committee. Advisory Committee. W. S. Roland, York. T. J. Edge, (ex officio.) Secretary. A. N. Perrin, Crawford, H. M. Engle, Lancaster. G. Hiester, Dauphin. Thomas J. Edge, Harrisburg. Botanist. Thomas Meehan, Germantown. Pomologist. Josiah Hoopes, West Chester. Analytical Chemist. Prof. F. A. Genth, University of Pennsylvania, West Philadelphia. Prof. W. H. Jordan, State College, Pa. Consulting Veterinary Surgeon. Prof. C. B. Michiner, D. V. S., American Veterinary College. AN ACT To authorize the printing and binding of the reports of the State Board of Agriculture, and other State agricultural reports. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That there be published annually hereafter, fourteen thousand and fifty copies of a work entitled the "Agriculture of Pennsylvania," which shall contain the annual reports of the State Board of Agriculture, the State Agricultural Society, the State Dairyman's Association, the State Fruit Growers' Association, and the State College, for the use of the Senate three thousand copies, for the use of the House nine thousand copies, for the use of the State Board of Agriculture one thousand one hundred copies, for the use of the State Agricultural Society three hundred copies, for the use of the Dairyman's Association three hundred copies, for the use of Fruit Growers' Association one hundred and fifty copies, for the use of the State College fifty copies, for the use of the Executive department fifty copies, for the use of the State Library for exchange fifty copies, and for the Horticultural Society of Pennsylvania fifty copies. SECTION 2. The matter for said volume shall be proportioned to the several organizations, as follows: To the State Board of Agriculture, two hundred and fifty pages; to the State Agricultural Society, two hundred pages; to the State Dairyman's Association, one hundred pages; to the State Fruit Growers' Association eighty pages, and to the State College twenty pages, the whole volume not to contain more than six hundred and fifty pages: Provided, That each organization shall compile and arrange its own matter, and that no matter shall be used by either which is not original and legitimate to the organization offering the same. SECTION 3. For the compilation, arranging and indexing of said matter, the sum of seven hundred and thirty dollars is hereby annually appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the presentation of the receipt of the Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding that all the matter has been delivered to him; said sums to be divided as follows: To the State Agricultural Society, two hundred and fifty dollars; to the State Dairyman's Association, three hundred and fifty dollars, and to the State Fruit Growers' Association, one hundred and thirty dollars; and that each organization shall deliver the whole of its report in manuscript to the Superintendent of Public Printing on or before the first day of November of each year. SECTION 4. That the State Board is hereby authorized to publish in pamphlet form, quarterly reports of crop returns from correspondents, epidemic or endemic diseases among domestic animals, experiments, analyses, et cetera, et cetera, the same not to exceed forty-eight pages each nor more than one thousand numbers. APPROVED the 24th day of May, 1878. J. F. HARTRANFT. |