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States useful and practical iuformation on subjects connected 

 with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and 

 experiment respecting the principles and applications of agri- 

 cultural science, there shall be established, under direc- 

 tion of the college or colleges or agricultural department of col- 

 leges in each State or Territory established, or ^Yhich may here- 

 after be established, in accordance with the provisions of an act 

 approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled 

 "An act donating public lands to the several States and Terri- 

 tories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture 

 and the mechanic arts," or any of the supplements to said act, 

 a department to be known and designated as an " agricultural 

 experiment station:" Provided, That in any State or Territory 

 in which two such colleges have been or may be so established 

 the appropriation hereinafter made to such State or Territory 

 shall be equally divided between such colleges, unless the Legis- 

 lature of such State or Territory shall otherwise direct. 

 . Sec. 2. That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment 

 stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the 

 physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are 

 severally subject, with the remedies for the same; the chemical 

 composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; 

 the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued 

 under a varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or 

 trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the chem- 

 ical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experi- 

 ments 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 different kinds 

 of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic ques- 



