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thousand dollars of the sum thus appropriated, or so much thereof as the Secretary 

 of Agriculture shall direct, may be used to collect, purchase, test, propagate, and 

 distribute rare and valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants 

 from foreign countries for experiments with reference to their introduction into this 

 country; and the seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants thus col- 

 lected, purchased, tested, and propagated shall not be included in general distribu- 

 tion, but shall be used for experimental tests, to be carried on with the cooperation 

 of the agricultural experiment stations. 



REGULATIONS OF THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT CONCERNING 

 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS. 



Section 372 of the Postal Laws and Regulations of the United States reads as follows: 

 Regulations for free transmission of bulletins and reports [under the act of Congress 

 of March 2, 1887, are prescribed as follows: 



(1) Any claimant of the privilege must apply for authority to exercise it to the 

 Postmaster-General, stating the date of the establishment of such station, its proper 

 name or designation, its official organization, and the names of its officers; the name 

 of ihe university, college, school, or institution to which it is attached, if any, the 

 legislation of the State or Territory providing for its establishment, and any other 

 granting it the benefits of the provision made by Congress as aforesaid (accompanied 

 by a copy of the act or acts), and whether any other such station in the same State 

 or Territory is considered, or claims to be, also entitled to the privilege; and also the 

 place of its location and the name of the post-office where the bulletins and reports 

 will be mailed. The application must be signed by the officer in charge of the 

 station. 



(2) If such application be allowed after examination by the Department, the post- 

 master at the proper office will be instructed to admit such bulletins and reports to 

 the mails in compliance with these regulations, and the officer in charge of the station 

 will be notified thereof. ^ 



(3) Only such bulletins or reports as shall have been issued after the station became 

 entitled to the benefits of the act can be transmitted free, and such bulletins or 

 reports may be inclosed in envelopes or wrappers, sealed or unsealed. On the exte- 

 rior of every envelope, wrapper, or package must be written or printed the uame of 

 the station and place of its location, the designation of the inclosed bulletin or report, 

 and the word "Free" over the signature, or facsimile thereof , of the officer in charge 

 of the station, to be affixed by himself or by some one duly deputed by him for that 

 purpose. There may also be written or printed upon the envelope or wrapper a 

 request that the postmaster at the office of delivery will notify the mailing station 

 of the change of address of the addressee, or other reason for inability to deliver the 

 same, and upon a bulk package a request to the postmaster to open and distribute 

 the "franked" matter therein in accordance with the address thereon. 



Bulletins published by the United States Department of Agriculture and analogous 

 to those of the station, and entitled to be mailed free under the penalty envelope of 

 that Department, may also be adopted and mailed by the several stations, with their 

 own publications, under the same regulations, and any bulletins or reports mailable 

 free by any agricultural experiment station under these regulations may be so mailed 

 by any other station having free-mailing authority. 



If such station's annual reports be printed by State authority, and consist in part 

 of matter relating to the land-grant college to which such station is attached, then 

 said report may be mailed free entire by the director of the station; provided, in 

 his judgment, the whole consists of useful information of an agricultural character. 



(4) The bulletins may be mailed to the stations, newspapers, or persons to whom 

 they are by the foregoing act authorized to be sent, and the annual reports to any 



