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expenses of such commissioner and director in the performance of 

 their duties, and for such other expenses as such commissioner shall 

 deem necessary for the efficient administration of such bureau. 



§ 309. Institutions designated to receive United States moneys. 

 - — - The Cornell university and the agricultural experiment station 

 at Geneva established by the laws of the state are hereby desig- 

 nated as the institutions within this state, entitled to receive such 

 portion as the legislature shall determine of the benefits of the act 

 of the congress of the United States, approved March second, eigh- 

 teen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled " An act to establish agri- 

 cultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges estab- 

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

 proved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the 

 acts supplementary thereto." Such benefits of such acts which this 

 state is authorized thereby to apply to any college, institution or 

 agricultural experiment station within this state, are applied to the 

 agricultural experiment station established under the direction of 

 Cornell university and the agricultural experiment station at 

 Geneva, and this state consents that such appropriation, money or 

 "benefits to or for the use of this state, or of any institution within 



this state, payable under or in pursuance of such 

 Funds, division act of congress, shall be paid nine-tenths thereof 

 of. to the treasurer of Cornell university, the officer 



designated to receive the same, and one-tenth 

 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. Such experiment station shall, annually, 

 on or before the first day of December, make, to the commissioner 

 of agriculture, a full and detailed report of its operations, includ- 

 ing a statement of its receipts and expenditures 

 Experiment sta- for the year ending with the thirtieth day of 

 tion, duties and September then next preceding. Such experi- 

 powers of. ment station may, with the consent and approval 

 of the commissioner of agriculture, appoint hor- 

 ticultural experts to assist such experiment station, 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 fer- 

 tilizing vineyard, fruit and garden plantations, and of making 

 orchards, vineyards and gardens prolific; in disseminating horti- 

 cultural knowledge by means of lectures or otherwise; and in pre- 

 paring and printing, for free distribution, the results of such in- 



