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value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different 

 kinds of food for domestic animals; 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 or Territories. 



Sec. 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 Commis- 

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

 tabulation of 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 fur- 

 nish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purpose 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 statement of receipts and expenditures, 

 a copy of which report shall be sent to each of said stations, to the said Commis- 

 sioner [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 M ; hich shall be sent to each newspaper in the 

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

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

 station will permit. Such bulletins or reports and the annual reports of 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. 



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

 tigations and experiments and printing and distributing the results as hereinbefore 

 prescribed, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars per annum is hereby appropriated 

 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 quarterly 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 annual appropriation so received by any station an amount not ex- 

 ceeding 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 there- 

 after an amount not exceeding five per centum of such annual appropriation may be 

 so expended. 



Sec 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 appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be 

 deducted 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 support. 



Sec 7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify the legal 

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

 or Territories in which they are respectively located. 



Sec 8. That in States having colleges entitled under this section to the benefits of 

 this act and having also agricultural experiment stations established by law separate 

 from said colleges, such State shall be authorized to apply such benefits to experi- 

 ments at stations so established by such States; and in case any State shall have 

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



