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000 acres for each senator and representative to which 

 such state was entitled under the preceding census. It 

 provided for the investment of money received as pro- 

 ceeds of sales of such lands, so that the income shall be 

 applied to endow at least one college where the leading 

 object shall be to teach agriculture and the mechanic arts. 

 Furthermore, in case the capital sum should at any time 

 be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the state, and 

 the college is to make an annual report to the Secretary 

 of the Interior. An act approved March 2, 1887, provides 

 for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations 

 to be conducted under the direction of any college estab- 

 lished in accordance with the act of 1862. Certain modi- 

 fications have been made where a station has been estab- 

 lished by a state but not connected with a college. By 

 this act !|15,000 is annually paid to each state and terri- 

 tory entitled to the same under provisions of foregoing 

 legislation. Here followed a definition of the object and 

 duty of these stations at length. An act of Congress 

 approved August 30, 1890, grants to each state and terri- 

 tory, out of the sale of public lands, il5,000 for the year 

 ending June ^^30, 1890, and an annual increase of 

 11,000 for ten years, to be applied only in the instruction 

 in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language 

 and the mathematical, physical, natural and economic 

 sciences. By the most recent report of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture there are now fifty-four of these experimenc 

 stations in forty-six different states and territories. 

 Alabama has four, Louisiana three, and Connecticut, 

 Massachusetts and New York two each. No other na- 

 tional government has so wide an opportunity for investi- 

 gation, covering contiguous territory. However much 

 the system may hereafter be expanded and elaborated 

 in its details, its descriptive title will be that of the 

 United States agriculture. There are at present 61 

 colleges in this country benefitted by these acts of 1862 



