§ 6-64-704 - Investigation and classification of soils.
6-64-704. Investigation and classification of soils.
(a) The Director of the Main Agricultural Experiment Station is authorized to expend such sums as may be provided and necessary for the purpose of conducting a scientific investigation of the soils of the counties of the State of Arkansas, classifying and locating the different soils, surveying and mapping such soils, describing, analyzing, and examining the soils and otherwise locating the various types and kinds of soil in the counties of this state and ascertaining their constituent elements of plant food, their plant food deficiencies, and any other information regarding the soils which will be helpful to the agricultural interest of the state and printing, publishing, and distributing reports and soil maps of the areas surveyed. This work may be conducted in cooperation with the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture and with the several counties of the State of Arkansas.
(b) The director is authorized to employ competent assistants and soil surveyors to make surveys, to fix their compensation, to purchase necessary supplies and equipment, to pay travel and such other expenses as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section, including cost of printing, publishing, and distributing reports of the soil surveys.
(c) The county courts and tax levying boards are authorized and empowered to make appropriations out of the general revenue fund of the county for the purpose of cooperating with the Main Agricultural Experiment Station in carrying out the provisions of this section.