§ 6-64-712 - Bureau of Research and Statistics generally.
6-64-712. Bureau of Research and Statistics generally.
(a) The Bureau of Research and Statistics is created to be under the supervision of the Main Agricultural Experiment Station.
(b) (1) The Main Agricultural Experiment Station is authorized to appoint two (2) competent assistants.
(2) (A) One (1) assistant shall be an efficient statistician who shall have had at least two (2) years' training in some college or university of recognized standing and who shall perform the work of gathering, compiling, and analyzing statistical data pertaining to the acreage, condition, yield, and production of crops, and numbers of various classes of livestock and farm values of each county in the state.
(B) The other assistant is to be a person competent to assist in collecting, compiling, and analyzing the statistical information.
(3) The assistants of the bureau shall take the oath of office prescribed by law before entering upon the discharge of their duties.
(c) The cooperative crop and livestock reporting work of the Bureau of Research and Statistics of the Main Agricultural Experiment Station shall be designated and known as the Federal-State Crop Reporting Service for Arkansas, which name shall appear at the top of all letterheads used in answering correspondence and letters of inquiry pertaining to crops and livestock in Arkansas.