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COOPERATION OF BUREAUS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT 

 OF AGRICULTURE WITH THE STATE EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The act making appropriations for the United Statos Depart mont 

 of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, provides for 

 cooperation ])etween the Bureau of -Animal Industry and the State 

 experiment stations in animal feeding and breeding; between tlie 

 Bureau of Pbint Industry and the stations in the testing and breeding 

 of fd)er plants, including the testing of flax straw for paj)er making 

 (in cooperation with the North Dakota Agricultural College) ; between 

 the Bureau of Sods and the stations in the investigation of. soils; 

 between the Bureau of Entomology and tlie stations in the ])revention 

 of the spread of gipsy and browni-tail moths; and between the OfRco 

 of Markets and Rural Organization and the agricultural colleges and 

 experiment stations in studies of cooperation among farmers. 



REGULATIONS OF THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT CONCERNING FREE 

 TRANSMISSION OF STATION PUBLICATIONS. 



Sections 516 and 517 of the Postal Laws and Regulations (1902) of 

 the United States relating to the free transmission of reports and 

 bulletins of the experiment stations read as follow^s: 



TO WHOM PUBUCATIONS MAY BE FRANKED. 



Sec. 516. Bulletins or reports of progress, one copy to each newspaper in the State 

 or Territory in which the colleges hereafter referred to are located, and to such indi- 

 viduals actually engaged in farming as may request the same, and the annual reports 

 required by law to be published by the agricultural experiment stations established 

 under the provisions of the act of March 2, 1887, entitled "An act to establish agri- 

 cultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the various 

 States and Territories iinder the provisions of an act approved July 2, 18G2, and the 

 acts supplementary thereto," for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts (o/ 

 said stations) shall be 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. 



HOW the franking privilege is to be rSEU. 



Sec 517. Agricultural experiment stations which claim the ])rivilege of transmit- 

 ting free through the mails, under thi? jtrovisions of the ])rec('ding section, bulletins, 

 reports of progress, or annual report^?, mu.st make ai)itiication to the Postiiuister (Jen- 

 eml, stating the date of the establishment of such station, its proi)er name or designa- 

 tion, its official organization, and the names of its olficcrs, the name of the university, 

 college, school, or iii.stitution to which it is attached, if any, the legislation of the 

 State or Territory jtroviding for its wtablishment. and any other granting it the bene- 

 fits of the ])rovision made by Congress aw referred to in the ])receding section, accoin- 

 paniod by a co])y of the act or acts, and whether any other such station in the Siime 

 State or Territory is considered, or claims to be, also eiititliHl to the i)rivilege; and 

 also the place where such station is located and the name of the post oHico where the 

 bulletins an<l rejjorts will bo mailed. The ai)plication must bo signed by the oflicer 

 in charge of the station. 



2. If such ai)])lication is allowed by the Postmaster General the postmaster at the 

 proper office will bo instructed to admit such bulletins and rejMjrta to the mails frt>o 

 of ])ostage, and the oilicer in charge of the station will bo notified thereof. 



3. Only such bulletins or rejiorts as shall have been i.s.xued after an experiment 

 station became entitled to tho privileges of the j)receding section can bo transmittiHl 



