The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
FAVOR ] MEMBERS ON STATE BOARD
 0F AGRIC UL I RE
Committee Amendment Pro- poses That Five Mem
 berS Be Farmers
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 Alabama will nave a state board of agriculture, composed of seven members, five of whom must actually he engaged in agriculture, if the legislature accepts amendments pro- posed by the house agriculture com mittee to the general agricultural code. Amendments were adopted by the committee today increasing the membership of the proposed board from five to seven, making the state commissioner of agriculture and di- rector of the experiment station at Auburn eX-officio members and. giv- ing the governor the power of ap- Iointing the five farmer members. By this amendment the director of the farm extension service was elim- mated.
 L. N. Duncan, director of the ex- tension work, announced several days ago that he did not care to be a member of the board and that his only interest was in obtaining 9 board which will bring greater de- velopment to agriculture in Alabama. Numerous other amendments were adopted the state wide live stock law proposed in the original bill be- ing entirely eliminated, as was the section providing that milk used for ice cream must be pAsteurized. The favorable report was adopted by a
  the bill will go on the house calen- dar Friday.
 Powers Limited.
 In addition to the change in the personnel of the board. it's powers and duties were considerably re- stricted by amendments. The sec tiof1 giving the board the right to fix the price of ginning cotton was entirely eliminated. The committee also struck from the bill the entire section which provided for a state wide live stock law and made it nec- essary for fence to be built around any county which voted out the stock law. This section met with strenu- ous opposition at hearings before the committee, many live stock men claiming that their business would be ruined.
 Some of the most stringent fea- lures of the horticultural section of the bill were stricken out, notably the section giving the state lien on the property of orchardists in cases where it is necessary TOT the state to disinfect the orchards ana destroy diseases.
 The section which provided that all milk used for ice cream must be pas teurized, and which met with strenu- ous opposition from dairymen of Montgomery and other counties. was 
 The section relating to chemical analytical work was amended so as to divide the work, all such work being placed under the supervision of the state chemist, except in the case of fertilizers and Illuminating oils, which will be analysed at Au- burn.
 The section of the bill relating to bleached Hours, which was strongly objected to, was also eliminated. The above amendments were, it is stated, thermain changes made in the bill.
 PREVENTS WAGE ASSIGNMENT
 Senator Hildreth's bill making void the assignment of unearned salary for a greater time than 30 days re- cetved a favorable Vote from the sen ate Judiciary committee Thursday morning. This measure prevents the eagsignment for a greater length Of time than 30 days and provides that assignments must be written and must be approved by employers. Nothing in the bill affects the valid ity of the wages to be earned in SO Ciys.
 The Inzer measure providing for the appointment of county boards or child welfare where such offices are wanted and at salary to be fixed by the county, also was voted on favorably. ,
 Fred Fite's bill increasing the sal ary of the tax collector ana the {a% a assessor of Jefferson county to $o'OOV a year was voted on faVoraDly'
 zONING LAW FAVORED
 Others acted on favorably by the senate committed: