There shall be an Alabama Extension Service under the charge of and operated in connection with Auburn University and under the administration and supervision of a director, who shall be appointed by the President of Auburn University, with the approval of the board of trustees thereof, and shall hold office at their pleasure. The salary of the director shall be fixed by the president, with the approval of the board of trustees, and such part thereof as shall be fixed to be paid by the State of Alabama shall be paid out of any appropriation to the extension service as other salaries therefrom are paid.

The objects, purposes and duties of the extension service shall be to aid in diffusing among the people of Alabama in the several counties useful and practical information on subjects relating to agriculture and home economics; to provide for the continuance and improvement of farm and home demonstration work; to provide for the training of men and women leaders; to provide for organizing clubs of farm people, including men, women, boys and girls for the improvement of agriculture and farm home life; to promote the welfare of the rural districts by other forms of extension work in agriculture and home economics and to aid in securing for expenditure in Alabama the full amounts of federal funds appropriated conditionally to Alabama by the Congress of the United States under an act approved May 8, 1914, and generally known as the Smith-Lever Act, for extension work in agriculture and home economics and other supplementary and related acts for extension work in agriculture and home economics.

(a) The Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station of Auburn University shall establish or expand and maintain a forest research program for the state designed to obtain basic and practical information pertaining to greater growth and better quality of timber and more varied and economical uses of forest products. To accomplish these purposes, investigations shall be conducted at the main station at Auburn and at such points throughout the state as may be deemed necessary to determine sound and progressive forest practices for each principal forest type of the state.

(b) The Auburn University shall establish a four-year course in forestry and a forest ranger course, and it shall expand the present facilities for the training in forestry of all agricultural students.

All research work supported by the funds provided in this article shall be done under the supervision and control of the Director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station.

Any revenue derived from the sale of timber or forest products or from other proceeds obtained from the operation of experimental forestry units or from the sale of any equipment shall be used for the lines of work authorized by this article.

(a) County commissions in the several counties of Alabama and municipalities of said state shall have full power and authority to appropriate funds for any of the purposes of this article.

(b) The Board of Trustees of Auburn University is hereby authorized and empowered to receive such donations as are from counties, municipalities, individuals, firms, organizations, corporations and companies for forwarding the purposes of this article.

In the event any lands are approved by the Director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station of Auburn University as suitable for experimental work in forestry and any county, municipality, person, firm, corporation or Auburn University is willing to pay the purchase price of said property that it may be donated to such public use and the person owning the same is unwilling to convey the same to Auburn University at a reasonable purchase price, the Governor may proceed to have the same condemned for such public use in the name of the State of Alabama as provided in Chapter 1 of Title 18 of this Code; provided, that no condemnation process authorized by this section shall be begun until the county, municipality, person, firm, corporation or Auburn University undertaking to pay the purchase price shall have entered into an agreement prepared by the Attorney General to promptly pay all judgments, costs and expenses of such condemnation proceedings and shall have given bond in some bonding company authorized to do business in the State of Alabama to faithfully and promptly execute the said agreement. The agreement for which provision is made in this section shall be filed with the Governor and the bond required shall be filed with and approved by the Governor.

The director, subject to the approval of the President and the Board of Trustees of Auburn University, shall have authority from time to time to appoint, discharge and fix the compensation of all necessary assistants and employees. Such assistants and employees, insofar as their salaries or any part thereof, is paid by the State of Alabama, shall be paid out of any appropriations to the extension service.

Any appropriation made for the annual maintenance and operation of the Alabama Extension Service shall be paid upon requisition of the director, by warrants drawn by the Comptroller upon the Treasurer.

There shall be an Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station System under the charge of and operated in connection with Auburn University, and under the administration and supervision of a director, who shall be appointed by the president, with the approval of the board of trustees thereof, and shall hold office at their pleasure. The salary of the director shall be fixed by the president, with the approval of the board of trustees, and such part thereof as shall be fixed to be paid by the State of Alabama shall be paid out of any appropriation to the experiment station system as other salaries therefrom are paid.

(a) The objects, purposes and duties of the Alabama Experiment Station System are:

(1) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations bearing upon and relating to the production, marketing, manufacturing, use and distribution of agricultural crops and products;

(2) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the production, marketing and curing of all kinds of livestock and livestock products that may be sold from or consumed on the farms of Alabama;

(3) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the production, culture and use of pasture plants and for the establishment, care, use and management of pastures;

(4) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the testing of all kinds of hay, feed and forage crops, including those that may be used for lawns and other sod crop purposes;

(5) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the testing of varieties of crops, including soil adaptation and improvement;

(6) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the testing of various fertilizers and fertilizer materials on the various soils and for various crops;

(7) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the production, marketing, storage and curing of fruit, nut and vegetable crops;

(8) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the study of plant and animal diseases and insect pests;

(9) To conduct researches and experiments dealing with forest production, management and use;

(10) To conduct researches dealing with soil erosion and problems arising from the waste of land due to soil erosion;

(11) To conduct researches to discover new uses of land;

(12) To make provision for the necessary land, buildings, fencing, livestock and other physical equipment needed for the research work provided for in this section;

(13) To conduct researches in game and fish production; provided, however, that any researches in game and fish production shall be in cooperation with or upon the advice of the director, so that there may be complete coordination between the work of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station System and that of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources;

(14) To conduct researches in other similar important agricultural and economic problems, having for their object the development of a more permanent, more profitable and diversified agriculture, as future changing agricultural conditions may demand it; and

(15) To provide for the printing of the necessary bulletins, circulars, etc., in order that the citizens of Alabama may be acquainted with the results of said researches.

(b) All appropriations for the experiment station system and its work shall be devoted to these purposes.

Auburn University, through its director of the experiment station system, is authorized and required to conduct research work in different parts of the state on farms which shall be designated as experimental fields. The director may also conduct such experiments and researches in cooperation with the farmers throughout the state as he may deem necessary and feasible.

All research work and experiments contemplated by the spirit and purpose of this chapter shall be carried out under the supervision of the director of the Alabama Experiment Station System of Auburn University, who shall make a report to the President of Auburn University at the end of each fiscal year.

The director, subject to the approval of the President and Board of Trustees of Auburn University, shall have authority from time to time to appoint, discharge and fix the compensation of all necessary assistants and employees.

There is hereby created a central artificial insemination unit to be located at the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn, Alabama.

The objects and purposes of said central artificial insemination unit shall be to increase the milk and butterfat producing capabilities of Alabama dairy cows by means of artificial breeding, to develop improved methods of handling semen and delivering same to cooperating groups of Alabama dairy farmers, to study improvement in Alabama dairy cows resulting from artificial insemination and to print and disseminate the results of such studies and to train technicians to be competent to breed animals artificially.

Any revenue derived from supplying semen to cooperating associations or from the sale of semen to other dairymen or the sale of bulls or equipment shall be applied to any of the lines of work authorized by this article.

The production of semen and other lines of work as proposed by the spirit and purpose of this chapter shall be carried out under the supervision of the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Auburn University.