Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1907 — Good Laws For farmers. [ARTICLE]

Good Laws For farmers.

Tne legislature showed a friendly hand to the farmers’ educational movement by enacting a la W to aid farmers’ institutes, it will be heart ily endorsed by .the progressive farmers pt every .couuty. It authorizes necessary expenses of one farmer’s county institute each year in each county, to be paid out of the county treasury te an amount not exceeding the sums contributed by the members in attendance at the in.-titute and used for thesnmepur pose, provided that thejsum drawn from the county treasurer shall not eic ed SIOO. Prizes offered to stimulate experimental work iuagricul tural or domestic science research and for excellence in agricultural or domestic science, or the necessary cost of cooperative educational work, pursuant to plans announced at the annual session and opened to general competitors shall be deemed “expenses” of the institute. Falsely certifying the amouut of money to which a county institute is entitled or signing a fraudulent voucher for expenses shall be punished by a fine of not more than 850. The act is declared to be supplemental to the act of 1889 and does not repeal it. Another law which ought to be welcomed by farmers who grow fruit is one which tooa effect March 9th under an emergency clause and is designed to combat the San Jose scale and other injurious plant di. seases. It fixes a penalty for shiping into the state or delivering any nursery stock affected with scale or other injurious diseases or for refusing to take any steps to exterminate the pest when discovered. All nursery stock offered for sale Lust be examined and' certified by the State entomologist, and railroad companies and mail carriers are 4*-tb«y foU ftUMf within 24 hours any plants committed to them which have not been thus certified.