§ 6-64-710 - Livestock and Forestry Branch Experiment Station.
6-64-710. Livestock and Forestry Branch Experiment Station.
(a) For enabling the Main Agricultural Experiment Station to increase and make more efficient and useful the agricultural research and experimental work of the state and to increase the facilities for that work, with particular reference to livestock and poultry, pasture development, horticulture, soil erosion, land use, and forestry in the Ozark region, there is created a Livestock and Forestry Branch Experiment Station to be located in the north-northeastern part of the Ozark region.
(b) The Livestock and Forestry Branch Experiment Station shall be located on soils fairly representative of the soils on which livestock and forestry products are produced and shall be devoted to investigational work relative to the problems of the farmers producing such products, together with such supplementary crops as may be adaptable to the region, and the acreage of the experiment station shall be sufficient to study livestock, forestry, pastures, supplementary crops, and land use problems.
(c) When selected, established, and equipped, the branch experiment station shall be and remain the property of the State of Arkansas for the use and purposes set forth in this section and shall be under the administration of the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas.
(d) The Director of the Main Agricultural Experiment Station shall also be the Director of the Livestock and Forestry Branch Experiment Station, but there may be an assistant director at such station who shall be directly responsible to the Director of the Main Agricultural Experiment Station.