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of sections one and two of this act, sball be fined not less than 

 twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for the first 

 offense, and not less than one hundred dollars nor more than three 

 hundred dollars for each subsequent oflTense. 



Sec. 5. This act shall take effect Octoljer one, eighteen hundred 

 and eighty-seven. 



Sec. 6. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are 

 hereby repealed. 



Approved March loth, 1887. 



AN ACT to es-tablish agricultural experiment stations in connec- 

 tion with the colleges established in the several States under the 

 provisions of an act approved July 2, 1862, and of the acts sup- 

 plementary thereto. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- 

 sentatives of the United States of America 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 con- 

 nected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and 

 experiment respecting the principles and application 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 

 accordance with the provisions of an act approved Jul}' 2, 1862, 

 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," or any of the supplements to said act, a 

 department to be known and designated as an '■'agricultural experi- 

 ment station :" Provided, That in any State or territory in which 

 two such colleges have been or may be so established, the appropri- 

 ation 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 dut}' 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 for the same ; the chemical 

 composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth ; the 

 comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a 

 varying series of crops ; the capacity of new plants or trees for 



