Local Agents.

Names. County. Headquarters.
J. F. Armstrong (Col. )...............................Southern Maryland... Seat Pleasant
L. H. Martin (Col. )......................................Eastern Shore..............Princess Anne

County Home Demonstration Agents.

Bessie Volk..............................................................Allegany ....................................Cumberland
Mary Graham.......................................... Baltimore ........................................... Towson
Isabelle Cobb......................................................Carroll ................................. Westminster
Lillian Grimm............Cecil ................................................. Elkton
Sara Coyne..........................................................Dorchester .............................. Cambridge
Elizabeth Thompson ..................................Frederick ................................ Frederick
Eva K. Schurr..................................................Harford .................................................Bel Air
Florence Mason ...............................................Wicomico .................................... Salisbury
Mrs. G. Linthicum..........................................Anne Arundel..............................Annapolis
Susan V. Hill......................................................Kent .................................... Chestertown
Blanche Corwin...................................................Montogmery ................................ Rockville
Ellen L. Davis..................................................Prince George's.....................Hyattsville

Queen Anne's.......................... Centreville

Ethel Joy.................................................................St. Mary's.................................Leonardtown
Somerset .............................Princess Anne

Olive K. Walls...................................................Talbot ............................................. Easton
Washington .......................... Hagerstown

Lucy J. Walter...................................................Worcester .....................................Snow Hill
E. S. Bohannan ................................................La Plata

Local Agent.-

Leah D. Woodson, Charles and St. Mary's..................................................La Plata

Garden Specialist.

Adelaide Derringer, Madison and Lafayette Aves., Baltimore.

STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE

College Park. Md.

James B. George, Director, Live Stock Sanitary Section, 816 Fidel-
ity Building, Baltimore, Md.

Organization.

The law provides that the personnel of the State Board of Agri-
culture shall be the same as the Board of .Regents of the State Uni-
versity. (Ch. 225 and 391, 1916.)

General Powers.

The genera] powers of the board as stated in Article 7 of the Laws
of 1916, Chapter 391, are as follows:

"The State Board of Agriculture shall investigate the conditions
surrounding the breeding, raising and marketing of livestock and the
products thereof, and contagious and infectious diseases affecting the
same, the raising, distribution and sale of farm, orchard, forest and
nursery products, generally, and plant diseases and injurious insects
affecting the same; the preparation, manufacture, quality analysis, in-
spection, control and distribution of animal and vegetable products,
animal feeds, seeds, fertilizers, agricultural lime, agricultural and
horticultural chemicals, and biological products; and shall secure in-
formation and statistics in relation thereto and publish such informa-