EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 791

official duties, and before entering upon such duties shall take
the oath prescribed by the Constitution. In case of any vacancy
the Governor shall appoint a person to fill the same, to serve
until the expiration of the time for which the person so
vacating said" office was appointed. Commencing in the year
1917 and. thereafter the Governor shall appoint one member
every year as the term of the members appointed in the year
1916, and their successors, may expire.

2. The State Board of Agriculture, immediately after its
organization, is empowered to make reasonable rules and by-
laws not in conflict with the Constitution and Laws of this
State for its regulation and guidance, and repeal or amend the
same as occasion may require. It shall employ such executive
officers, heads of departments, specialists, clerks, inspectors and
assistants of every kind as it may deem necessary to carry out
in a thorough manner all powers and duties now or hereafter
assigned to it, prescribe their duties and fix their compensa-
tion, and the salaries of such employees shall be payable out of
such funds as are now or may hereafter be appropriated to
said Board for the general purposes thereof or for specific pur-
poses, as designated from time to time. The executive officers
and heads of departments shall be appointed by a majority of
the whole board, and shall not be removed from office except by
a majority vote of the whole Board, when in their judgment
the good of the work demands. The Board may also delegate
the power to employ and discharge employees to executive
officers or heads of departments. The Board shall establish an
office or offices for the transaction of its business at such place
or places as to it shall seem most expedient, and is empowered
to do any and all things necessary or proper for the perform-
ance of its duties.

7. The State Board of Agriculture shall investigate the
conditions, surrounding the bleeding, raising and marketing
of live stock, and the products thereof, and contagious and
infectious diseases affecting the same; the raising, distribu-
tion 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 prod-
ucts, animal feeds, seeds, fertilizers, agricultural lime, agri-
cultural and horticultural chemicals, and biological products;
and shall secure information and statistics in relation thereto
and publish such information, statistics and the results of such