KRS 247.045: Duties of experiment station concerning control of black shank and other

tobacco plant diseases.

The Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station shall carry on and extend the present

program in the field of tobacco breeding, research and education for th e control of black

shank and other diseases in tobacco. For this purpose there shall be available to the

Kentucky agricultural experiment station, such sums as may, from time to time, be

appropriated by the General Assembly for the purpose.