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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 disseminating horticultural knowledge by °^n^^^'°^" 

 means of lectures or otherwise; and in preparing and printing, ["uTar""' 



. . . . , . knowledge. 



tor free distribution, the results oi such investigations and experi- 

 ments, and such other information as may be deemed desirable and 

 profitable in promoting the horticultural interests of the state. 

 Such experts may be removed by such experiment station, in its 3^p"4°' 

 discretion, and may be paid for their services such sums as it 

 may deem reasonable and proper, and as shall be approved by the 

 commissioner of agriculture. All of such work by such experiment 

 station and by such experts shall be under the general supervi- ^uper- 

 sion and direction of the commissioner of agriculture. The treas- 

 urer of this state shall keep the account of all moneys hereafter "^^^^l' 

 received by him in pursuance of such act of congress, in a separate 

 fund, to the credit of the Cornell university and the agricultural 

 experiment station at Geneva, in the proportion stated in this sec- 

 tion, and shall pay all such moneys immediately upon receipt 

 thereof by him to the officers respectively designated therein to J^^^T'' °' 

 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 pur- 

 suance of said act of congress, which said moneys are hereby ap- 

 propriated for the purposes herein stated. 



§ 310. Receipt and apportionment of moneys for the promo- 

 tion of agriculture. All the moneys already appropriated, or 

 hereafter appropriated, for the promotion of agriculture in any 

 one year, and all the revenues which have been, or shall be re- 

 ceived by the comptroller, and all the moneys received by him 

 from the tax collected from racing associations pursuant to arti- 

 cle twenty of the membership corporations law, or hereafter other- 

 wise collected from racing associations, corporations or clubs, 

 shall constitute a fund, which shall be annually disbursed on Fund, 

 behalf of the state for the promotion of agriculture and domestic 

 arts, for the promotion of education along agricultural lines and 



