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food for domeetic animal«; the efientific and economic queationfl 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 conditiona and needs of the 

 respective States and Territories. 



Sec. 3. That in order to secure, as far as practicable, uniformity of methods and 

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

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

 tabulation of results of investigation or experiment; to indicate from time to time such 

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

 advice and assistance as will best promote the purpose of tliia act. It shall be the duty 

 of each of said stations annually, on or before the first of February, to make to the gov- 

 ernor of the State or Territory in which it is located a full and detailed report of its 

 operations, including a statement of receipts and expenditures, a copy of which report 

 shall be sent to each of said stations, to the said Commissioner [now Secretary] of 

 Agriculture, and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the 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 which sliall be sent to each newspaper in the 

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

 actually cngageil in farming as may request the same and as far as tlie means of the 

 station will permit. Such bulletins or reports and the aiuiual reports of said stations 

 shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States free of charge for postage, under 

 such regulations as tlie Postmaster General may from time to time prescribe. 



Sec. 5. That for the purpose of paying tlie necessary expenses of conducting investi- 

 gations and experiments and printing and distributing the results as hereinbefore 

 prescribed, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars per annum is hereby aj)propriated to 

 each State, to be specially provided for by 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 paid 

 in equal (juartcrly payments on the first day of January, April, July, and October in 

 each year, to the Treasurer or other officer duly appointed by the governing boards of 

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

 October, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven: Provided, however, That out of the first 

 anmial aj)propriation so receivoil by any station an amount not exceeding one-fifth 

 may l)e expended in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building or buildings 

 necessary f<jr carrjang on the work of such station; and thereafter an amount not 

 exceeding five per centum of such annual aj)i)ropriation may be so expended. 



Sec. 6. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of tlie Treasury from the 

 annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said stations that a portion of 

 the preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be 

 de<luctc<l from the next succeeding annual a|)propriation to such station, in onler tJiat 

 tlie amount of nionc> ai)"i)ropriated to any .stivtion shall not exceed tlio amount actually 

 and necessarily re(|uiretl for its maintenance and support. 



Sec. 7. That n<ithing in this act shall bo construwl to impair or modify the legal 

 relation existing between any of the said colleges and the government of the States or 

 TerriUjries in which they are respectively located. 



Sec. 8. That in Suites having colleges entitled under tliis section to the benefits 

 of this act ami having also agricultuml experiment stations establisheil by law sej>arote 

 from said colleges, such States shall bo authorizotl t<^) apply such benefits to experi- 

 ments at stations ho eHtablislnMl by such States; and in case any State shall have 

 established, under the provisions of said act of July second aforesaid, an agricultural 

 department or exi)erinuaiUil station in connection with any university, con<»go, or 

 institution not distinctly an agriciillunil <-oll<'g«« or H<-h(M)l, and such State shall have 

 eHtabliflhed or hIkiI! hereafter establish a separatu agricultural collcgo or Hchool, which 



