Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 3, § 1024. Director of experiment stations as state chemist

The director of the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station of the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center or his designee shall be the state chemist, with all of the rights conferred and all of the duties and obligations imposed on the state chemist, especially as to analytical and microscopical work that may be necessary or desirable and all research as may contribute to the knowledge of the properties, values, and proper use of commercial feeding stuffs, commercial fertilizers, and commercial insecticides and fungicides in Louisiana.