Annual apportionments to county boards

The department of agriculture may apportion to the several county boards of agriculture annually, such sum or sums of money for the information secured and labor performed in connection with the reports of such county boards as the department shall deem equitable; but such amount shall not exceed one hundred dollars in any one year to any county board, one-half of this amount, when the sum appropriated does not exceed sixty dollars, to go to the person making up the report and the balance to the treasury of the county board to pay its running expenses.