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infonnation on subjects connected with agriculture, and to 

 promote scientific investigation and experimenls respecting 

 the principies and application of agricultural science there 

 shall be established under the direction of the college or colle- 

 ges or agricultural departments of colleges in each State or 

 territory established, or which may hereafter be established 

 in accordance with the provisions of an act approved July 

 second eighteen hundred 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». 



«That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment 

 stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments 

 on the physiology of plants and animáis; the diseases to 

 which they are severally subject, with the remedy of the 

 same; the chemical composition of useful prants at their 

 different stages of growth; the comparative 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 composition of 

 manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to 

 test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the 

 adaptation and valué of grasses and forage plants; the compo- 

 sition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for 

 domestic animáis; the scientific and economic questions 

 involved in the production of butter and cheese; 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». 



«That for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses 

 ofconducting investigations and experiments and printing 

 and distributing the results as hereinbefore prescribed, the 

 sum offifteen thousand dollars per annun is hereby appro- 



