Section 24. Publication of department bulletins, publications and reports

There may be published by the department from time to time bulletins  or
  other  publications and reports containing accurate data, statistics and
  information.
    1. As to agriculture, agricultural production, agricultural labor  and
  the  agricultural  conditions  of  the  state,  and  the development and
  improvement thereof, with a  view  of  increasing  farm  production  and
  values;
    2.  As  to  the sources, supply and prices of foods, their storage and
  accumulation at different places, and the quantities and location of the
  available supply thereof;
    3. As to the market prices of foods;
    4.  As  to  facilities  afforded  for  transportation,  marketing  and
  distribution of foods within the state;
    5.  As to matters pertaining generally to the production of foods, the
  actual  food  value  of  articles  used  as  foods,  and  the  sale  and
  distribution  thereof  to  the  consumers,  which  in the opinion of the
  commissioner will prove valuable or of interest to the public;
    6. As to investigations, hearings and inquiries conducted as  provided
  in  this  chapter,  the  conclusions  reached as to the matters involved
  therein, and the orders and recommendations made as a result thereof;
    7. As to any other matter which the commissioner deems proper.
    Such bulletins, publications and reports and the information contained
  therein shall be published and distributed in the manner deemed best  by
  the   commissioner   for  the  dissemination  of  knowledge  as  to  the
  agricultural and dairy interests of the state and the production,  sale,
  purchase, storage, marketing and distribution of foods, and the economic
  and  food  value  of articles used as food.  The cost of publishing such
  bulletins, publications and reports shall be paid in the same manner  as
  other  expenses  of  the department out of appropriations made therefor.
  Copies of the bulletins, publication and reports of the  department  may
  also  be sold to the public at the estimated cost thereof, in accordance
  with a schedule of charges which the commissioner is  hereby  authorized
  to adopt.