States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard ta 

 the varying conditions and needs of the respective states or territories. 



Sect. 3. That, in order to secure, as far as practicable, uniformity of 

 methods and results in the work of said stations, it shall be the duty of 

 the United States commissioner of agriculture to furnish forms, as far 

 as practicable, for the tabulation of the 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 furnish such advice 

 and assistance as will best promote the purposes 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 operations, including a state- 

 ment of I'eceipts and expenditures, a copy of which report shall be sent 

 to each of said stations, to the said commissioner of agriculture, and to 

 the secretary of the treasury of the United States. 



Sect. 4. That bulletins or reports of progress shall be published at 

 said stations at least once in three months, one copy of which shall be 

 sent to each newspaper in the states or territories in which they are 

 respectively located, and to such individuals actually engaged in farm- 

 ing as may request the same, and as far as the means of the station will 

 pei'mit. Such bulletins or reports, and the annual reports of said sta- 

 tions, shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States free of 

 charge for postage, under such regulations as the postmastei'-general 

 may from time to time prescribe. 



Sect. 5. That, for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses of 

 conducting investigations and experiments, and printing and distributing 

 the results as hereinbefore prescribed, the sum of $15,000 per annum is 

 hei-eby appropriated to each state, to be specially provided for by Con- 

 gress 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 quarterly payments on the first day of January, April, 

 July and October in each year, to the treasui-er or other ofiicer duly ap- 

 pointed by the governing boards of said colleges to receive the same, 

 the first payment to be made on the first day of October, 1887 : pro- 

 vided, however, that out of the first annual appropriation so received 

 by any station an amount not exceeding one-fifth may be expended in 

 the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building or buildings necessary 

 for carrying on the work of such station ; and thereafter an amount not 

 exceeding five per centum of such annual appropriation may be so 

 expended. 



Sect, 6. That, whenever it shall appear to the secretary of the 

 treasury, from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of 

 any of said stations, that a portion of the preceding annual appropria- 

 tion remains unexpended, such amomit shall be dedvicted from the next 

 succeeding annual appropriation to such station, in order that the 

 amount of money appropriated to any station shall not exceed the 

 amount actually and necessarily required for its maintenance and sup- 

 port 



