The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-12-05

stock products, which shall include
all departments of huSbandry and
farm work, but which may include, at
the discretion of the society or asso-
citation, premiums for implements,
methods, for the improvement of agri-
cultural and horticultural work. No
portion of the money received from
the county treasury under this act
can be used for contests of speed,
racing or for shows or amusements
so-called. All of such sums of money
received from the county treasury
shall be used in premiums for the i'm
provement of SOIL crops, tillage, man
ures, implements, stock, articles of
domestic industry, and such other
articles, productions and improve
ments as they may deem proper, and
perform all such acts as they may
deem best calculated to promote the
agricultural and manufacturing inter
ests of the county and state. And it
shall also be their duty so to regu-
late the amount of the premiums,
and the different grades of the same,
as to enable the farmers of small as
we'll as large means to compete there
for; and in making the awards, spe-
cial reference shall be had to the
profits, which may accrue or be like
ly to accrue from improved methods
of raising crops, or of the fabrication
of articles thus offered, with the in
tention that the premiums shall be
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of improvement. All persons offer
ing to compete for the premiums on
improved mode of tillage, or the pro-
duction of any crops or other arti-
cles, shall be required before such
premiums are adjudged, to deliver to
the awarding committee a full and
| correct statement of the process of
such mode of tIllage or production,
and the expense and value of the
same, with a view of showing accur-
ately the profits derived or expected
to be derived therefrom.
Sec. 4. List of Awards Report to
the State Board. lit shall be the
duty of each county society to pub
fish annually list of the awards and
an abstract of the treasurer's &C.
count, in such manner as the society
may direct, and to make report of
their proceedings during the year,
and a synopsis of the awards for the
improvements in agriculture and
manufactures, together with an alb
stract Of the several descriptions of
these improvements; and also to
make a report of the condition of ag-
riculture in that county; which report
shall be made out in accordance with
the rules and regulations of the state
board of agriculture, and shall be
annual meeting.
Sec. 5, Fair Grounds. Each
county society may purchase and
hold in fee simple such real estate as
they may deem necessary, not ex-
ceeding 100 acres of land, for the
purpose of holding county fairs.
Sec. 6. ICounty Aid. Whenever
any county agricultural society, or
! ganized by law, shall have procured
in fee simple free from incumbrance,
land for fair grounds not less than
ten acres in extent, the county board
of said county may, in their discre-
ton, if the finances of the county
will admit, appropriate and pay to
such society sum not exceeding one
hundred dollars for every thousand
inhabitants in said county, to be ex-
pended by such society in fitting up
such fair grounds, but for no other
purpose; but no more than one thous-
!, and dollars shall, in the aggregate
be appropriated in any one county
Sec. Z. Report to County Board
Dissolution of the Society. Each
society receiving such appropriation
shall through its secretary make tc
the county board a detailed statement
with vouchers showing the legal dis
bursement of all the moneys received
And in all cases when such county
Y agricultural societies shall be dis
r solved or neglect, for the space o.
q two years, to discharge the duties
i devolving upon them by law o.
n on such real estate for the use o.
J. where the payments have been made
a for real estate, or improvements up
y in which such agricultural fair is be
o any agricultural society, then all sucl
y real estate and improvements shall
IS vest in fee simple in the county max
L. ing such payment, and the distric
i court of said county, upon proc
Is thereof, shall, upon petition of saiC
county board, make proper deere,
= vesting the title to such property il
S said county.
Dr. Sec 8. mo Liquor Selling, Games