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agricultural colleges^^ and experiment stations, to which 

 reference has already been made, the Smith-Lever Act of 

 May, 1914," and the Federal Aid Road Act of July, 1916,^^ 

 both require extensive cooperative relations with state 

 agencies.^® It is to the consideration of the administration 

 of these measures that the remainder of this chapter will be 

 devoted. 



The Act of 1862, providing for the establishment of state 

 agricultural colleges, made no provision for the exercise of 

 federal supervision or control over the expenditures made 

 by the states of funds derived from the federal treasury. 

 All that was required was that reports should be made 

 annually of the progress of each college, the sales of land 

 script, and the use made of the proceeds therefrom. The 

 Act of 1887, creating the agricultural experiment stations, 

 likewise made no adequate provision for effective control, 

 by the federal government, of the funds appropriated by 

 Congress. In addition to the usual annual reports, it re- 

 quired the experiment station to publish bulletins periodic- 

 ally showing the results accomplished, and made it the duty 

 of the Commissioner (now Secretary) of Agriculture to 

 furnish certain forms, to indicate lines of inquiry which 

 might be most profitably followed, and to give advice and 

 assistance. Somewhat more adequate control was reserved 

 to the federal government in the act of 1906, (supplement- 

 ary to the act of 1887) which, in addition to requiring the 

 annual reports of expenditures, made the payment of the 



18 The laws appropriating federal funds for the aid of agricultural 

 colleges, the so-called Morrill Act of 1862 and amendments thereto, 

 are administered by the Department of the Interior. Only those re- 

 lating to the experiment stations are administered by the Department 

 of Agriculture. The law of 1890, supplementing the Morrill Act. 

 requires that copies of financial reports be sent to the Secretary of 

 Agriculture as well as the Secretary of the Interior. 



1^ 38 Stat. L. 372. 



"39 Stat. L. 355. 



1" The so-called Smith-Hughes vocational education act is not ad- 

 ministered by the Department of Agriculture, but by a vocational 

 education board, of whicli the Commissioner of Education is chair- 

 man. The Secretary of Agriculture is a member of this Board. 

 This is also a cooperative measure. 



