The boards of supervisors may carry on and conduct experiments, investigations, and research work, including both cultural and industrial processes, with trees, plants, shrubs, flowers, and other vegetation, to ascertain their adaptation to the climatic, soil, and other conditions of the county, investigate the industrial and economic value of such trees, plants, shrubs, flowers, and vegetation, and publish the results of such experiments and investigations.
(Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)