The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-02-09
TO INSTRUCT FARMERS.
Senator Anderson's Bill Providing for
Farmers Institutes.

Senator Anderson's Bill Providing for
Farmers Institutes.
Helena Herald:
Senator Anderson this morning in
troduced bill providing for holding
farmers institutes in Montana and
providing for board OF administra-
ton, and making an appropriation OF
$4,000 to carry out the provisions CT
the bill. The measure provides:
The board of administration of the
farmers institute as provided for in
this act shall consist as follows: The
governor of the state and the direc-
tor OF the Montana experimental sta
ton, both of whom shall be ex-officio
members and presidents of the fol-
lowing organizations: The Montana
WoOl-Growers' association, the Mon
tana Livestock association, the Mon
tana Horticultural society, the Mon
tana Agricultural association, and the
Montana Dairymen's association, when
OF ganized. Members of such board
OF administration shall be designated
as the Directors of the Montana
Farmers Institutes and shall be au-
thorized and required to hold insti-
tutes for the instruction Of the citi-
zens OF this state in the various
a n ri IF au,,ic,
tutes shall be held at least once in
each county in each year, provided
that the requirements hereinafter
mentioned have been complied with,
and at such times and at such places
as the directors may designate, and
they shall make such rules and regu-
lations as they may deem proper for
organizing and conducting such insti-
tutes, and may employ an agent or
agents to perform such work in con-
nection with the directors as they
may deem best. The course of in
structions at such institutes shall be
arranged so as to present to those
in attendance the results of the most
recent Investigations in theoretical
and practical agriculture.
Sec. 2. 1t shall be the duty of
those conducting institutes IN any
county or precinct in the state under
the provisions of this act, to encour-
age and assist in the organization OF
local agricultural societies.
Sec. >. At the close of each SEES
sion of the institute work the direc
tors aforesaid shall cause to be pub
lished in a book or pamphlet form,
for the free distribution to farmers
of the state, an annual report of the
institute work.
Sec. A. For the purpose mentioned
in this act, the directors may use
such sum as they deem proper, not
exceeding the sum of three thousand
dollars in any one year, and such
amount is hereby annually appropriate
ed for that purpose out of the moneys
in the state treasury not otherwise
appropriated.
Sec. s. Each institute held under
the authority of this act shall be ell
titled to the sum of not exceeding
fifty dollars from the amount appro-
priated under this act.
Sec. Z. That the expense of sucl
institutes or any expenditure made
in nj no
ions of this act shall be paid to such
institute fund by the state treasurer
upon warrants issued by the state aud
itor which warrants shall only be
drawn upon the certificate of the
chairman of the board of administra-
ton of the Montana Farmers Insti-
tutes.
Sec. s. That Immediately upon
passage of this act, the board of ad-
ministration shall meet in the city
OF Helena and arrange for the first
series of Institutes throughout the
state, and thereafter such board shall
meet annually on the second Tuesday
of November to arrange for such in.
stitutes, and they shall again meet on
the second Tuesday in March of each
year to close up the campaign, audit
all the expenditures, and arrange for
the printing of the institute annual.
That the cost of such annual shall not
exceed one thousand dollars in any
one year, and shall be made in form
and makeup to that of the states of
Minnesota and Wisconsin"
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