or cities and counties, in which such lands are situated, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith. [Approved April 22, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 1082.] §1. May lease lands not needed. §2. Acts repealed. §3. In effect, when. §1. May lease lands not needed. Any district agricultural association organized, or hereafter organized under the laws of the state of California, is hereby authorized and empowered to lease lands owned, managed or controlled by said association, whether in trust or otherwise, not needed for the permanent use of said association, to any municipal corporation, county, or city and county, in which said lands are located, for a period not to exceed fifty years, for purposes not inconsistent with the objects and purposes for which said association is formed and for which said lands are held, owned, or controlled by it. §2. Acts repealed. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. §3. In effect, when. This act shall take effect immediately. ACT 132. An act to provide for the employment of an expert in agriculture and matters relating thereto by the governing boards of irrigation, reclamation and drainage districts. [Approved April 23, 1913. Stats. 1913, p. 75.] $1. Expert in agriculture for irrigation districts. §1. Expert in agriculture for irrigation districts. The board of directors, board of trustees or other governing body of any irrigation, reclamation or drainage district organized and existing under the laws of the state of California is hereby authorized to employ an expert in agriculture and matters relating thereto, and such assistants as may be deemed necessary to supervise the construction of works for the irrigation or protection of lands within the district to advise with the owners of lands within the district, or any other persons engaged in farming such lands, as to methods of increasing the productiveness of such lands as to the kinds of crops to be raised or as to any matters of husbandry, and to conduct such experiments and perform such other duties for the general welfare of the people of their district as the board may prescribe. ACT 133. An act authorizing the appointment of two deputies from California as members of a commission which is to investigate European systems of rural credits and report thereon, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved April 18, 1913. Stats. 1913, p. 36.] §1. Delegates. $2. Appropriation. Whereas, Under the auspices of the southern commercial congress a commission composed of two delegates from each state is to be sent to Europe, during 1913, to study systems of rural credit and co-opera tive agricultural societies, and Whereas, Said commission is to embody the result of its investigations in a report with a view of establishing in this country a system of agricultural finance and rural credits, and Whereas, The congress of the United States has duly approved the project of sending said commission to Europe, and Whereas, It is eminently fitting that delegates should be sent from California to take part in the work of the commission with a view to aiding the farmers of our state, therefore, The people of the state of California do enact as follows: §1. Delegates. The governor is authorized to appoint two delegates from California who shall take part in the commission which, under the auspices of the southern commercial congress, is to visit, during 1913, the various countries of Europe and there investigate the different systems of co-operative agricultural societies and rural credits and to report thereon with a view to establishing in this country a sound system of rural credits and agricultural finance. § 2. Appropriation. The sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses, traveling and otherwise, of said delegates while serving as members of the said commission, and the state controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the same in favor of the commission hereunder appointed and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same. ACT 134. An act providing for the appointment of a commission to investigate and report at the forty-second session of the legislature relative to the adoption of a system of land colonization and rural credits, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved May 17, 1915. Stats. 1915, p. 475.] Repealed by act approved June 1, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 1573. See post, tit. "State Land Settlement Board." ACT 135. An act empowering county boards of supervisors to appropriate and use county funds for the support and maintenance of extension work in agriculture in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the University of California. [Approved May 18, 1915. Stats. 1915, p. 572.] § 1. Supervisors may support university extension work. § 1. Supervisors may support University extension work. The boards of supervisors of the respective counties within the state are hereby empowered to appropriate and use county funds in not to exceed the amount of ten thousand dollars for any one year, for the support and maintenance within their respective counties of extension work in agriculture under the approval of the United States Department of Agriculture and in co-operation with the University of California. ACT 136. An act for the prevention of the adulteration or mislabeling of agricul tural seed, providing for the indicating of the purity and viability thereof, and prescribing penalties for violations of the provisions hereof. [Approved June 3, 1921. Stats. 1921, p. 1221. In effect August 2, 1921.] 1. Terms defined. §1. Terms defined. Certain terms when used in this act shall, unless such construction be inconsistent with the context, be construed as follows: (a) The words "agricultural seeds," all domesticated grasses, cereals, legumes such as alfalfa, sweet clover, red clover, crimson clover, alsike clover, white clover, field peas, cowpeas, beans, soy beans, and vetches, and the seeds of all other crops that are or may be grown commercially on a field scale in this state, not including flower, sugar beet, and garden vegetable seeds. (b) "Noxious weeds," any of the following named plants: Dodder (Cuscuta species), star thistle (Centaurea species), thistles (Carduus species, Circium species, Cnicus species), Russian thistle (Salsola kali), hoary cress (Lepidium draba), morning-glory (Convolvulus arvensis), Johnson grass (Holeus halepensis), nut grass (Cyperus species), creeping mallow (Sida hederacea), St. Johnswort (Hypericum species), coast dandelion (Hypochaeris radicata), water grass (Echinochloa crusgalli), ground bur nut or puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris). (e) The words "weed seeds," any and all noxious weed seeds and any and all seeds not included in the definition of agricultural seeds. (d) "Label," a tag or label affixed in a conspicuous place on the exterior of a package or other container, plainly written or printed in the English language in type not smaller than seven point. §2. Label on agricultural seed. Every lot of agricultural seeds, exent as herein otherwise provided, when sold, offered or exposed for sale in bulk, packages or other containers of five pounds or more shall bear a label stating: (a) The commonly accepted name of such agricultural seeds and the bushel weight thereof; (b) The approximate percentage by weight of purity; meaning the freedom of such agricultural seeds from other kinds of seeds distinguish. able by their appearance and from inert matter. (c) The approximate total percentage by weight of weed seeds. (d) The name of each kind of seeds or bulblets of noxious weeds which are present singly or collectively, as follows: (1) in excess of one seed in each five grams of timothy, red top, tall meadow oat grass, (e) The approximate percentage of germination of such agricultural seeds together with the month and year said seed was tested; provided, however, that this statement shall not be a basis for prosecution under this act until after a hearing has been held thereon before the director of agriculture under such general rules and regulations as may he adopted by the director of agriculture. (f) The full name and address of the vendor of such agricultural seed. § 3. Label on mixtures. Mixtures of alsike and timothy, alsike and white clover, red top and timothy, alsike and red clover, when sold, offered or exposed for sale as mixtures and in bulk, packages or other containers of five pounds or more shall bear a label stating: (a) That such seed is a mixture. (b) The name and approximate percentage by weight of each kind of agricultural seed present in such mixture in excess of five per cent by weight of the total mixture. (c) The approximate percentage by weight of weed seeds. (d) The name of each kind of seeds or bulblets of noxious weeds which are present singly or collectively in excess of one seed or bulblet in each fifteen grams of such mixture. (e) The approximate percentage of germination of each kind of agricultural seed present in such mixture in excess of five per cent by weight, together with the month and year said seed was tested; provided, however, that this statement shall not be a basis for prosecution under this act until after a hearing has been held thereon before the director of agriculture under such general rules and regulations as may be adopted by the director of agriculture. (f) The full name and address of vendor of such mixture. § 4. Label on special mixtures. Special mixtures of agricultural seeds, except as specified in section three of this act, when sold, offered or exposed for sale as mixtures, in bulk, packages or other containers of eight ounces or more shall bear labels stating: (a) That such seed is a special mixture. (b) The name of each kind of agricultural seed which is present in proportion of five per cent or more of the total mixture. (c) The approximate total percentage by weight of weed seeds. (d) The approximate percentage by weight of inert matter. (e) The name of each kind of the seeds or bulblets of noxious weeds which are present singly or collectively in excess of one seed or bulblet in each fifteen grams of such special mixture. (f) The full name and address of the vendor of such special mixture. ཟ་། §5. Exemption. Agricultural seeds, mixtures or special mixtures of the same shall be exempt from the provisions of this act: (a) When possessed, exposed for sale, or sold for food or manufacturing purposes only. (b) When sold to merchants to be recleaned before being sold or exposed for sale for seeding purposes. (c) When in store for the purpose of recleaning, or not possessed, sold or offered for sale for seeding purposes within the state. § 6. Enforcement by director of agriculture. The duty of enforcing this act and carrying out its provisions and requirements shall be vested in the state director of agriculture. The director of agriculture is hereby empowered to adopt, from time to time, such reasonable rules and regulations not in conflict with law as he may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this act by setting forth such rules and regulations in a proclamation, which proclamation shall be published in the agricultural bulletin of the state department of agriculture and in one or more newspapers or agricultural journals of general circulation published in the state of California. The said director of agriculture shall maintain a laboratory with proper equipment for the making of laboratory tests under this act. He may publish or cause to be published the results of the examination, analysis and test of any sample of agricultural seed, mixture or special mixture of such seed. §7. Inspection of seed. It shall be the duty of the said director of agriculture, either by himself or his duly authorized agents, to inspect, examine and make analysis of and test any agricultural seed sold, offered or exposed for sale within this state for seeding purposes within this state, at such time and place, and to such extent as he may determine. The director of agriculture and his agents shall have free access at all reasonable hours to any premises or structures to make examination of any such agricultural seeds, whether such seeds are upon the premises of the owner or consignee of such seeds, or on the premises or in the possession of any warehouse, elevator, railway, steamship or transportation company, and he is hereby given authority in person or by his agents, upon notice to the dealer, his agent or the representative of any warehouse, elevator, railway, steamship or transportation company, if present, to take for analysis a composite sample of such agricultural seeds upon payment of a reasonable purchase price for the same when demanded. Said sample shall be thoroughly mixed and two official samples taken therefrom. Each official sample shall be securely sealed. One of said samples shall be left with or upon the premises of the party in interest, and the other retained by said director of agriculture or his agent for analysis. In case a sample drawn as provided herein upon test or analysis is found to fall below the statement on the tag or label attached to the lot from which said sample was secured, or to violate any of the provisions of this act, the vendor or assignee of said lot of seed shall be notified and a copy of said notice shall be mailed to the person, frm or corporation whose tag or label was found affixed thereto. §8. Seed submitted to test. Any citizen of this state shall have the privilege of submitting to the director of agriculture samples of agri |