Many States provided means of fighting tree diseases and established bee insecticide and fungicide and ways of combatting insect pests. The distribution of bog cholera serum was regulated by law and stallion registration was provided for in many States. Ohio made agri culture obligatory in all the State non-city schools; Kansas prescribed a knowledge of agriculture for all State teachers; Idaho and North Carolina instituted systems of rural agri cultural high schools; Massachusetts, Maine and North Dakota extended additional State aid to schools giving agricultural instruction. New York appointed a State advisory board to pro mote agricultural education and the advance ment and improvement of country life. In 1912 Arizona and New Mexico provided new irriga tion codes; New York passed a law to en courage the preservation of forests, and authorized counties, towns and villages to ac quire and operate forests.
The year 1913 saw a decided movement on the part of many of the States to encourage market co-operation and to improve rural credit. Long-time loans were authorized in Vermont from municipalities to farmers for drainage projects. Michigan provided for the inspection and testing of sugar-beets at the factories, and numerous States regulated weights and meas ures and fruit containers, andprovided for the employment of farm experts for advisory and demonstrative work throughout the counties.
Irrigation and drainage received serious atten tion in many States. In New Hampshire, Washington and Montana new agricultural de partments were established. Co-operative efforts distinguished the legislative acts of 1914. New York authorized a system of land banks, con sisting of local savings and loan associations with a central State bank in New York city, with power to issue shares to locals. Colorado provided $1,000,000 school fund for long-time farm loans at 6 per cent. Virginia facilitated the formation of co-operative associations, while Massachusetts very greatly improved its credit law of 1909. Again drainage received serious encouragement from many State legis latures and milk laws were generally made more stringent.
Much recent agricultural legislation has taken place in the various States of the Union, but nearly all of it has been improvement, ex tension or definition of that already mentioned or described in this article.