showing the total population of the new State in 1908, by counties and town. ships; acreages and yield of Oklahoma's principal farm crops, covering the years of 1906 and 1907, for the Territory of Oklahoma and the new State! the number and value of live stock, and the farm value of crops in the new State on March 1, 1908. These statistical tables will be of much more than ordinary interest for the reason that they contain the first reliable data ever gathered in the Indian Territory part of the state, and represent the development and value of the agricultural and live stock resources of Oklahoma at the beginning of her history as a member of the Union.

Respectfully submitted,

STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE,

J. P. CONNORS, President.
CHAS. F. BARRETT, Secretary.

The Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture

and Board of Regents of all Agricultural
and Mechanical Colleges.

LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE

STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE

An Act Providing for the Organization of the Board of Agriculture, Prescribing the Manner of Selecting the President and Other Members Thereof, Definiing Their Duties, Fixing Their Compensation, Making an Appropriation, and Declaring an Emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: Section 1. The Board of Agriculture shall consist of a President and ten other members, two of whom shall be selected from each Supreme Court Judicial District in the manner hereinafter provided, and all members including the President shall be farmers and shall have had at least five years' practical experience after reaching the age of twenty-one years. And all members of the present Board of Agriculture shall retire on the second Tuesday in August, 1908, and their places shall be filled by election; said election to be held at Stillwater on the second Tuesday in August, 1908, and only accredited delegates and members of the present Board shall participate in said election. The general office of the Board shall be at the seat of government of the State, but the regular annual meeting of the Board shall be held on the second Tuesday in August of each year at the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stillwater. Special meetings may be held whenever and wherever called by the President and shall be called whenever peti tioned for by five members thereof. Immediately after the first election of members of the Board, under provisions of this Act, they shall divide themselves by lot into five classes. The terms of office of those in the first class shall expire in one year; of those in the second class, in two years; of those in the third class, in three years; of those in the fourth class, in four years; and of those in the fifth class, in five years. At each Annual State Institute thereafter, two members shall be elected for a term of five years. In case of vacancy, the Governor shall fill the same by appointment from the Supreme Court Judicial District in which such vacancy occurs, on recommendation of the Board, until the next Annual State Institute, when the vacancy shall be filled by election for the unexpired term. Members of the Board of Agriculture other than the President, shall receive six dollars per diem for the time actually engaged in the performance of their duties, and in addition thereto, actual cost of transportation.

Sec. 2. Upon application of not less than fifteen farmers, resident. one county, approved by the President of the Board of Agriculture, there shall be issued a charter for a corporation to be known as the County Farm ers' Institute for such county. The annual meeting of each County Farmers' Institute shall be held at a time and place to be fixed by the President of the Board of Agriculture, of which thirty days' notice shall be mailed to the officers thereof. At the annual meeting, each County Farmers' Institute shall elect one delegate to the annual meeting of the State Institute, which

shall be held at the same time and place as the annual meeting of the Board of Agriculture. A certificate of election of each delegate shall be filed in the office of the President of the Board of Agriculture at least thirty days prior to the annual meeting. Whenever a County Institute shall fail to file a certificate of election of its delegate within thirty days prior to the annual meeting as aforesaid, or whenever no County Institute has been chartered in any county, the President of the Board shall appoint a delegate from such county. Delegates to the State Institute shall be actual farmers and shall receive three dollars per diem for each day actually engaged in going to, returning from, and attending same, together with three cents per mile for each mile necessarily traveled; provided, however, that O delegate shall receive per diem for more than six days for any one meeting. Members of the Board of Agriculture shall be ex-officio delegates to the State Institute and entitled to vote therein.

Sec. 3. The Board of Agriculture shall be the Board of Regents of all agricultural and mechanical colleges; it shall select the professors, presidents and other employes of each of said schools, fix their salaries and prescribe their respective duties. It shall prescribe the course of study in each of said schools, and shall ordain and establish such rules and regulations for the management thereof, not inconsistent to the laws of the State, as they may deem necessary and proper. It shall have jurisdiction over all matters affecting animal industry and animal quarantine regulations, and of all matters affecting agriculture, horticulture, and arboriculture. Its duty shall include the collection and publication and distribution of statistical information concerning all matters under its control and supervision. It shall have supervision of the County Farmers' Institute system, and shall prescribe such reasonable rules and regulations for the management of County Institutes, not inconsistent with the laws of the State, as they may deem proper. Said Board shall, furthermore, have power to adopt and devise such rules and regulations as may be necessary to secure the efficient administration and proper enforcement of all laws which have for their object the preservation, protection, encouragement or improvement of any branch of agriculture, and which may now be in force, or may hereafter be enacted. It shall have power to appoint sub-committees from its membership to perform any duty imposed by law upon said Board. It shall have the power to employ all clerical help nécessary to conduct the business of the Board, and fix their compensation within the limitation of this act. It may require such bond in any case as they deem necessary to protect the State. The State Board of Agriculture shall have power to devise and adopt the necessary rules and regulations for the enforcement of all laws now in force or that may hereafter be enacted for carrying into effect dairy and pure food laws of this State, the laws regulating the control of seed and fertilizers, nursery inspection laws, and the stock food inspection laws, and the promotion of agricultural instruction throughout the State.

Sec. 4. The President of the Board shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; provided, however, that at the regular election in 1910, and each four years thereafter, he shall be elected in the same manner as the Governor. He shall be the executive officer of the Board, and in the absence of the Board, shall subject to its approval, perform all duties imposed by law upon it, and he shall receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly.