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§§ 1653-a4-1653-a7. WEATHER AND CROP SERVICE. Tit. VIII, Ch. 4.
5 statistics, and arrange the same for publication in the Iowa year book
6 of agriculture.
[C, '97, § 1363 ; S., '13, § 1363 ; 39 G. A., ch. 178, § 3.]
SEC. 1653-a4. Duty of assessors.
1 The assessor shall require each person whose property is listed,
2 to make answers to such inquiries as may be necessary to enable him
3 to return the foregoing statistics carefully footed and summarized to
4 the director of the Iowa weather and crop service on or before the fif-
5 teenth day of April.
[C, '97, § 1363 ; S., '13, § 1363 ; 39 G. A., ch. 178, § 4.]
SEC. 1653-a5. Duties of director.
1 The director shall:
2 1. Employ such assistants as shall be necessary efficiently to dis-
3 charge the duties devolving upon him, and within the appropriation
4 provided by this chapter.
5 2. Cooperate with said board of agriculture in establishing volun-
6 teer stations in one or more places in each county, and appoint observ-
7 ers thereat.
8 3. Supervise such stations, receive reports of meteorological
9 events and crop conditions and tabulate the same for permanent record.
10 4. Issue weekly weather and crop bulletins from April first to
11 October first of each year.
12 5. Edit and cause to be published monthly weather, crop and live-
13 stock reports, containing meteorological and agricultural matter of
14 public interest.
15 6. Make an annual report to the governor reviewing and sum-
16 marizing the result of the service for the year. Said report may in-
17 elude articles on meteorological science and climatology, and extracts
18 from approved works thereon.
19 7. Cooperate with farmers' institute organizations in providing
20 speakers for them on agricultural and kindred topics.
[C, '97, §§ 1679, 1680; S., '13, § 1679; 39 G. A., ch. 178, § 5.]
SEC. 1653-a6. Blanks.
1 Monthly and annual reports, blank forms for assessors' reports
2 and all other forms, circulars and stationery shall be printed and pro-
3 vided by the state as in the case of general state printing.
[39 G. A., ch. 178, § 6.]
SEC. 1653-a7. Annual appropriation.
1 There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the state
2 treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of seventy-five hundred
3 dollars annually, to be drawn and expended upon the order of the
4 director, approved by the secretary of the department of agriculture,
5 for the service provided in this chapter, including the salary of the
6 director, which shall not exceed twenty-five hundred twenty dollars
7 per annum.
[C, '97, § 1681 ; S., '13, § 1681 ; 38 G. A., ch. 363, § 1 ; 39 G.
A., ch. 178, § 7.]