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It also provides for the State Weather Bureau. By section 308 

 of the Agricultural Law, provision is made for a State Weather 

 Bureau and its continuation at Cornell University for meteoro- 

 logical observation and experiment upon the grounds of Cornell 

 University, and for the establishment and supervision of one or 

 more volunteer stations in each district of the slate for the pur- 

 pose of increasing the usefulness of the weather service. This 

 section provides that the sunt of $4,500 shall be paid to the com- 

 missioner by the Treasurer, upon the warrant of the Comptroller, 

 etc., for the purposes of this act. No appropriation, however, 

 has been made for this service for a number of years. 



This article also designates the institutions within the state 

 to receive United States money appropriated as provided by 

 the Act of March 2, 1887, entitled, "An act to establish agricul- 

 tural experiment stations in connection with the colleges estab- 

 lished in the several states, under the provisions of an act ap- 

 proved -Inly 2, 1802, and of the acts supplementary thereto/' 

 The institutions thus designated arc the agricultural experiment 

 station established under the direction of Cornell University, and 

 the agricultural experiment station at Geneva, N. Y. It pro- 

 vides that 9/10 thereof shall be paid to the treasurer of Cor- 

 nell University, the officer designated to receive the same, and 

 1/10 thereof to the officers of the agricultural experiment 

 station at Geneva designated to receive the same, to be expended 

 as provided in such act of Congress. It also provides that, with 

 the consent and approval of the Commissioner of Agriculture, 

 such experiment station may appoint horticultural experts to 

 assist in such experiment station work that may be conducted 

 in the fifth judicial department in conducting investigations and 

 experiments in horticulture; in discovering and remedying the 

 diseases of plants, vines and fruit trees; in ascertaining the best 

 means of fertilizing vineyard, fruit and garden plantations, and 

 of making orchards, vineyards and gardens prolific; in dissemi- 

 nating horticultural knowledge by means of lectures or otherwise; 

 and in preparing and printing, for \'v(^- distribution, the results 

 of such investigations and experiments, and such other informa- 

 tion as may be deemed desirable and profitable in promoting the 

 horticultural interests of the slate. 



