226 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



Act of 1866 Extending the Time Within Which Agricultural Colleges May 



be Established. 



AN ACT to amend the fifth section of an act 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," approved July 2, 1862, so as to extend the time within which the provisions of said act shall 

 be accepted and such colleges established. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That the time in which the several States may comply with 

 the provisions of the act of July two, 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," is hereby extended so 

 that the acceptance of the benefits of the said act may be expressed within three 

 years from the passage of this act, and the colleges required by the said act may be 

 provided within five years from the date of the filing of such acceptance with the 

 Commissioner of the General Land Office: Provided, That when any Territory shall 

 become a State and be admitted into the Union, such new State shall be entitled 

 the benefits of the said act of July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, by expre 

 ing the acceptance therein required within three years from the date of its admissio: 

 into the Union, and providing the college or colleges within five years after sue 

 acceptance, as prescribed in this act: Provided further, That any State which hi 

 heretofore expressed its acceptance of the act herein referred to shall have the perio 

 of five years within which to provide at least one college, as described in the fourt 

 section of said act, after the time for providing said college, according to the act o 

 July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall have expired. 



Approved, July 23, 1866. 



Act of 1887 Establishing Agricultural Experiment Stations. 



AN ACT to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in 

 the several States under the provisions, of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred anc 

 sixty-two, and the acts supplementary thereto. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amei 

 in Congress assembled, That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the 

 people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connect 

 with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting 

 the principles and applications of agricultural science, there shall be established, 

 under direction of the college or colleges or agricultural department of colleges in 

 each State or Territory established, or which may hereafter be established, in accord- 

 ance Math the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-two, entitled "An act donating public lands to the several States and Terri- 

 tories 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 desig- 

 nated as an " agricultural experiment station:" Provided, That in any State or 

 Territory in which two such colleges have been or may be so established the appro- 

 priation hereinafter made to such State or Territory shall be equally divided between 

 such colleges, unless the legislature of such State or Territory shall otherwise direct. 



Sec. 2. 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 animals; 

 the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies of the same; the 

 chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the com- 

 parative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a 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 



