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Show PROPOSEliT STATE BOAHD Department of Agriculture to 3e Proposed Before Lower House ! . S V'1. ,AKK- f'b- 21 Introductlor ol admlnlstratloh bills, creating a stall department or agriculture and articulating articu-lating with that department those go ernmenlal branches which ordlnarllv belong to such a department; Is io be tnadc in the house- or representative I this week. Conference relative to th many measures which win i- necessary neces-sary for the establishment t such 0 department hav boon gomK on roi several weeks between members of th, and senate committees on aarl-eulture, aarl-eulture, and the bills are Jus! about ready for introduction. ! I EXPANSES nn There will be seven numbers or the Mate agricultural commission, according accord-ing to reliable Information made pub-ln pub-ln yesterday. These seven ni.-m o. i n is understood, will be appointed to serve without compensation except expenses ex-penses and actual railroad fans nd o far as it may be possible, the hoard win comprise ni agriculturists who have specialised in certain lines, .There will be a livestock man a heep man. a bacteriologist a crops and pests expert, possiblv a verterln-ariau, verterln-ariau, an apiarist and a .swine and poultry expert Ir such experts are not oi.lain.-ble (or the positions ,,f commlsslonerships, they prubabiv will be anion- the employes or th i"ard By the Creation Of ori agricultural commission, com-mission, such bodies MS the livestock commissioners, sheep commissioners bee Inspectors and like boards will be abolished and all work that may be related in any way will be correlated wjtn the new department. Under the Jurisdiction .if the now commission, i is taid will b placed the i aplar: . crops and pests, n gistrar or sta lions, seed inspector, department ot weight und measures and uosaihii some- branches of the Irrigation and dralnace work. OTHB31 " IJNGES. Already provision hui- been made (or Hi - placing ot the work oi uie dairy and food Inspebtlbn under the super-vision super-vision of the state board of health and it was -s-.id yesterday that there u.is a possibility or u scries of bills proposing the reorganization of the work ui the health department The department or eights and measures w Id be taken irom the health board and placed under the new agriculture department, and th,. latter la to have Cfotrgfe of the dairy and food inspe -tlon. barber and dental examinations and llLe work. B1I1S calling lor much of this work of co-ordination and correlation already al-ready have been passed by both ( houws. Possibility of thc organization or a new commission to supervise laminations oi chiropractor; .--.id ..th-r drug!e:M healers also was i r I., Imminent. MM calling for au-h legislation leg-islation have been introduced and till are in committee, but no Intimation nas coino out as to what the commit- , tcp reeonuii.-ndatlons oa those meas-' tires mny be. There Is only one session lb be held ' I the capitoj today, thut of th- house, which begins at s .. clock this afternoon. after-noon. The senate has recessed untt.' , , dnosdaj . |