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of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds 

 of food for (loinestie aiiinialfj; the scientilie and economic (luestioiis involved in the 

 production of butter and clieese; and such other researches or experiments bearing 

 directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each case be 

 deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the 

 respective States and Territories. 



Sec. S. That in ordiT to secure, as far as practicable, unilurniity of methods and 

 results in the work of said stations, it shall be the duty of the United States Commis- 

 sioner [now Secretary] of Agriculture to furnish forms, as far as practicable, for the 

 tabulation of results of investigation or experiments; to indicate from time to time 

 such lines of inquiry as to him shall seem most important, and, in general, to fur- 

 nish such advice and a.ssistance as will best promote the purpose of this act. It shall 

 be the duty of each of said stations annually, on or before the first day of February, 

 to make to the governor of the State or Territory in which it is located a full and 

 detailed report of its ojierations, including a statement of receipts and exi>enditures, 

 a copy of which report shall be sent to each of said stations, to the said Commis- 

 sioner [now Secretary] of Agriculture, and to the Secretary of the Treasury of tlie 

 United States. 



Sec. 4. That bulletins or reports of progress shall be published at said stations at 

 least once in three months, one copy of wliicli shall be sent to each newspai)er in the 

 States or Territories in which they are respectively located, and to such individuals 

 actually engaged in farming as may riHjuest the same and as far as the means of the 

 station will iiermit. Such liulletins or reports and the annual reports of said stations 

 shall l)e transmitted in the mails of the United States free of charge for postage, under 

 such regulations as the Postmaster-General may from time to time prescribe. 



Sec. 5. That for the ]iurpose of paying the necessary expenses of conducting inves- 

 tigations and ex}ieriments and printing and distributing the results as hereinbefore 

 I)rescribed, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars per annum is hereby appropriated to 

 each State, to be specially provided for l)y Congress in the appropriations from year 

 to year, and to each Territory entitled under the provisions of section eight of this 

 act, out of any money in the Treasury proceeding from the sales of public lands, to 

 be i)aitl in equal quarterly payments on the first day of January, April, July, ami 

 October in each year, to the treasurer or other ollicer duly appointed l)y the govern- 

 ing boards of said colleges to receive the same, the first payment to be made on the 

 first flay of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven: Provided, howerer, That out 

 of the first annual approt>riation so receivt'd by any station an amount not exceeding 

 one-fifth may be expended in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building or 

 buildings neces.«ary for carrying on the work of such station; ami thereafter an 

 amf)imt not exceeding five per centum of such annual appropriation may be so 

 expendeil. 



Sec. (). That wiienever it shall appear to tlu' Si-cretary of the Treasury from the 

 annual statement of receipts and i'\i)enilitures of any of said stations that a i)ortion 

 of the preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be 

 deducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station, in order 

 that the amount of money appriii)riated to any station shall not exceed the amount 

 actually and nece-s.-jarily reciuired for its maintenance and support. 



Sec. 7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify the legal 

 relation existing between any of the sai<l colleges and the government of the States 

 or Territf)ries in which they are respe<'tively located. 



Sec. 8. That in States having colleges entitled umler this .n-ctiou tn the benefits of 

 this act and having also agricultural experiment stations established by law separate 

 from said colleges, such State shall be authorized to apply such benefits to experi- 

 ments at stations so established by such States; and in case any State sliall have 



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