ARTICLE 6. DEMONSTRATION PACKINGHOUSES AND SIMILAR PLANTS.

§19-6-1. Demonstration fruit packing house.

The demonstration community packing house, heretofore created and established at Inwood, in Berkeley county, West Virginia, shall continue to be operated under the direction and supervision of the cooperative extension service of the college of agriculture of the West Virginia University, for the purpose of demonstrating the most approved methods of picking, sorting, packing, warehousing and storing apples, peaches and other similar fruit, and for the purpose of teaching any citizen of this state approved methods of picking, sorting and packing such fruit in barrels, boxes and other containers, and of warehousing and storing the same.

§19-6-2. Demonstration poultry and egg packing plant.

The demonstration community poultry and egg packing plant, heretofore created and established at Parkersburg, in Wood county, West Virginia, shall continue to be operated under the direction and supervision of the cooperative extension service of the college of agriculture of the West Virginia University, for the purpose of demonstrating the most approved methods of marketing, handling and storing poultry and poultry products, and for the purpose of teaching any citizen of West Virginia approved methods of marketing, grading, handling and packing eggs and of feeding, killing and dressing poultry.

§19-6-3. Demonstration garden products plant.

The demonstration garden products plant, the establishment of which was heretofore authorized by law, shall be continued for the purpose of teaching any citizen of West Virginia, by the demonstration method, how vegetables, berries, fruits or other garden products may be sorted, graded, processed or marketed under methods conforming to consumer demands and economically profitable to the producers. It shall be the duty of the cooperative extension service of the college of agriculture of the West Virginia University to select a location for the aforesaid demonstration plant, and after the necessary buildings and equipment shall have been provided, the demonstration shall be administered under the direction and supervision of said cooperative extension service of the college of agriculture.

§19-6-4. Buildings and equipment.

It shall be the duty of the state commissioner of public institutions to provide necessary buildings and equipment for suitably conducting each of the demonstration plants mentioned in this article.