250 KEPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPElUilENT STATIONS. 



Act op 1866 ExTENDiNd tiik Timk within wnicn Agricultural Colleges May 



UK Established. 



AN ACT to amend the fifth section of an not entitled "An net donntinp public lands to the several 

 Stntesand Territories which may jirovide colleKes for the benefit of aKrieiilture and the mechanic 

 arts." ajiiiroved July U, ISO'i, so a.s to extend the time witliiii wliieh the provisionH of said act shall 

 be aceejited and such coUcKes establisheil. 



Be it enacted bi/ the Senate and Jloui<e of KeprexentatlveK of the United Statea of Anierica 

 in Congress assembled, That the time in which the several States may comi)ly with 

 the provisions of the act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An 

 act dnnatin^ ]>ul)lic lamls to the several States and Territories which may provide 

 colleges for the beiietit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," is hereby extended so 

 that the acceptance of the benefits of the said act may be expressed within three 

 years from the passage of this act, and the colleges required by the said act may be 

 provided within five years from the date of the filing of such acceptance with the 

 Commissioner of the General Land Office: Prodded, That when any Territory shall 

 become a State and be admitted into the Union, such new State shall be entitled to 

 the benefits of the said act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, by express- 

 ing the acceptance therein i-equired within three years from the date of its admission 

 into the Union, and providing the college or colleges within five years after such 

 acceptance, as prescribed in this act: Provided further. That any State which has 

 heretofore expressed its acceptance of the act herein referred to shall have the period 

 of five years within which to provide at least one college, as descril)ed in the fourth 

 section of said act, after the time for jn-oviding said college, ac(-ording to the act of 

 July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall have expired. 



Approved, July 23, 1866. 



Act of 1887 Establishing Agricultural Experiment Stations. 



AN ACT to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in 

 the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-two, and the acts supplementary thereto. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That in order to aid in ac(juiring and diffusing among the 

 people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected 

 with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting 

 the principles and applications of agricultural science, there shall be established, 

 under direction of the college or colleges or agricultural department of colleges in 

 each State or Territory established, or which may hereafter be established, in accord- 

 ance with the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen htmdred and sixty- 

 two, entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories 

 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 legislature of such State or Territory shall otherwise direct. 



Sec. 2. That it shall be the o"bject and duty of said experiment stations to conduct 

 original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; 

 the diseases to w'hich they are severally subject, with the remedies of the same; the 

 chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth ; the com- 

 parative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under the varying series of crops; 

 the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; 

 the chemical comj^osition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed 

 to test their comparative effects on croi>s of different kinds; the adaptation and value 



