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sioner of agriculture, a full and detailed report of its operations, 

 including a statement of its receipts and expenditures for the 

 year ending with the thirtieth day of September then next pre- 

 ceding. Such experiment station may, with the consent and ap- 

 proval of the commissioner of agriculture, appoint horticultural 

 experts to assist such experiment station, in the fifth judicial 

 department, in conducting investigations and experiments in 

 horticulture; in discovering and remedying the disease of plants, 

 vines and fruit trees; in ascertaining the best means of fertiliz- 

 ing 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 

 preparing and printing, for free distribution, the results of such 

 investigations and experiments, and such other information as 

 mav be deemed desirable and profitable in promoting the horti- 

 cultural interests of the state. Such experts may be removed 

 by such experiment station, in its discretion, and may be paid 

 for their services such sum as it may deem reasonable and 

 proper, and as shall be approved by the commissioner of agricul- 

 ture. All of such work by such experiment station and by such 

 experts shall be under the general supervision and direction of 

 the commissioner of agriculture. 



§ 2. The treasurer of this state shall keep the account of all 

 moneys hereafter received by him in pursuance of such act of 

 congress, in a separate fund, to the credit of the Cornell univer- 

 sity and the agricultural experiment station at Geneva, in the 

 proportion stated in section one of this act, and shall pay all 

 such moneys immediately upon the receipt thereof by him to the 

 officers respectively designated therein to receive the same, upon 

 the warrant of the comptroller, issued upon the order of the 

 trustees of Cornell university and the board of control of the 

 agricultural experiment station at Geneva, in pursuance of said 

 act of congress, which said moneys are hereby appropriated for 

 the purposes herein stated. 



§ 3. The sum of eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as 

 may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the 



