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Introduction of the merit system among the employees.
Art. 3.
Erection by the state of grain elevators and warehouses for the storage of farm products; these elevators and warehouses to be managed by the Board of Agriculture.
Art. 4.
Organization by the Board of Agriculture of free agricultural education and the establishment of model farms.
Art. 5.
Encouragement by the Board of Agriculture of co- operative societies of farmers—
For the buying of seed and fertilizer.
For the purchase and common use of implements and machinery.
For the preparing and sale of produce.
For the working of land by groups.
Art. 6.
Organization by the state for loans on mortgages and warehouse certificates, the interest charges to cover cost only.
Art. 7.
State insurance against diseases of animals, diseases of plants, insect nests, hail, flood, storm and fire.
Art. 8.
Aid and encouragement to be given the actual workers of the farms in the formation of district co-operative associations which shall be given the power to issue bonds for the purchase of suitable farming lands—bonds to be redeemable in forty years. Individuals purchasing such lands shall pay the purchase price of land in share or cash annual or semi-annual rentals extending over a period of forty years, or may at their option pay in full in any given number of years.
Art. 9.
Exemption from taxation and execution of dwellings, tools, farm animals, implements and improvements to the amount of one thousand dollars.
Art. 10.
A graduated tax on the value of rented land and land held for speculation.
Art. 11.
Absentee landlords to assess their own lands, the state reserving the right to purchase such land at their assessed value plus 10 per cent.
Art. 12.
Land now in the possession of the state or hereafter acquired through purchase, reclamation or tax sales to be rented to landless farmers under the supervision of the Board of Agri-
