An Act to Establish Stations for Practical Instruction in Matters Concerning Agriculture and a System of Agricultural Demonstration and Development

February 7, 1913

ACT NO. 2226

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH STATIONS FOR PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION IN MATTERS CONCERNING AGRICULTURE AND A SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURAL DEMONSTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT

SECTION 1. The Director of Agriculture is hereby authorized to establish, equip, maintain, and operate in such places in the Philippine Islands as may be considered suitable for the purpose, stations for practical agricultural instruction, and to establish, organize, maintain, extend, and develop, and from time to time change and improve, a system of cooperative agricultural instruction, all for the purpose of teaching perfected methods of soil selection, preparation, and fertilization, planting and harvesting vegetables, fruits, cereals, and other crops, production of improved seeds and plants for distribution, improvement of the breed of animals used for agriculture, and to further by other means and encourage and teach agriculture and agricultural work.

SECTION 2. Whenever circumstances are deemed favorable, stations for practical agricultural instruction may be established and conducted maintained, equipped, and operated cooperatively by the Bureau of Agriculture and any province, municipality or agricultural association of the Philippine Islands; but any station for practical instruction established under the provisions of this Act shall be managed under the supervision and control of the Director of Agriculture.

SECTION 3. The Director of Agriculture is hereby authorized to appoint and employ station superintendent, traveling inspectors, clerks, operators, messengers, and all other employees deemed necessary for carrying on successfully the work to which this Act refers, and to fix their salary; to purchase or lease the necessary land and buildings, to install wells and other irrigation systems, to acquire by purchase donation, exchange, or other contract, all animals, plants, fuel, machinery, vehicles, apparatus, equipment, tools, implements, and articles necessary for the proper operation of this Act, and to expend for these purposes the money appropriated by this Act.

SECTION 4. The duties by this Act imposed upon the Director of Agriculture shall be performed under the general direction and with the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction.

SECTION 5. The sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pesos per annum or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the provisions of this Act.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on July first, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

ENACTED, February 7, 1913.