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 FURTY-NINTH c0Nonnss. Sess. 11. on. 314. iss:. 44] artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants ; the composition and digestibility of the diderent kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of theUnited States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories. Sec. 3. That in order to secure, as far as practicable, uniformity of Commissionerof methods and results in the work of said stations, it shall be the duty AB*i°¤1*¤*° *° •d· of the United_States Commissioner of Agriculture to furnish forms, as V'°°’ °"‘ far as practicable, for the tabulation of results of investigation or experiments; to indicate, from time to time, such lines of inquiry as to ` him shall seem most important; and, in general, to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of this act. It shall be the duty of each of said stations, annually, on or before the first day of February, to make to the governor of the State or Territory in which it is located a full and detailed report of its operations, including a R<>P<>¤‘t¤- statement of receipts and expenditures, a copy of which report shall be sent to eacli of said stations, to the said Commissioner of Agriculture, and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Sec. 4. That bulletins or reports of progress shall be published at Bulletins. said stations at least once in three months, one copy of which shall be sent to each newspaper in the States or Territories in which they are respectively located, and to such individuals actually engaged in farming as may request the same, and as far as the means of the station will permit. Such bulletins or reports and the annual reports of said sta.- ‘ tions shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States free of To be post hoc. charge for postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may from time to time prescribe. Sec. 5. That for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses of con- Appropriation; ducting investigations and experiments and printing and distributing to be made from the results as hereinbeforo prescribed, the sum of fifteen thousand dol- $**1*3* °f P “ **1*** lars per annum is hereby appropriated to each State, to be specially M °' provided for by Congress in the appropriations from year to year, and to each Territory entitled under the provisions of section eight of this act, out of any money in the Treasury proceeding from the sales of pub-' lic lands, to be paid in equal quarterly payments, on the tlrst day of January, April, July, and October in each year, to the treasurer or other omcer duly appointed by the governing boards of said colleges ' to receive the same, the first payment to be made on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven: Provided, hoacercr, That Pi-ovieo. out of the first aznual appropriation so received by any station an amount not excee ing one-fifth may be expended in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building or buildings necessary for carrying B¤ildi¤z•- on the work of such station; and thereafter an amount not exceeding five per centum of such annual appropriation may be so expended. Sec. 6. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treas- Only amount ¤o» ury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of ¤¢¤¤9ry tv bv •1>· said stations that a portion of the preceding annual appropriation re- !’°“'°“°d· mains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station, in order that the amount of money appropriated to any station shall not exceed the amount actually and necessarily required for its maintenance and support. Sec. 7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or Legal status not modify the legal relation existing between any of the said colleges and ¤¤`¤¤¤¢¢l- the government of the States or Territories in which they are respectively located. , Sec. 8. That in States having colleges entitled under this section to Application to the benefits of this act and having also agricultural experimentrstations Swiss b¤*i¤.·-3 ¤¤· established by law separate from said colleges, such States shall be an- P°“"‘°“‘ “'“"°"'· thorized to apply such benehts to experiments at stations so established