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The Acts of Congress establishing Agricultural Experiment 

 Stations, and a full list of them, are here given, together 

 with their post-office address. Communications should in 

 all cases be addressed "Director, Agricultural Experiment 

 Station," followed by the post-office and State. 



Act of 1887 Establishing Agricultural Experiment 

 Stations. 



An Act to establish agricultural experiment stations in con- 

 nection with the colleges established in the several States 

 under the provisions of an act approved July second, eigh- 

 teen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary 

 thereto. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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 connected 

 with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and 

 experiment respecting the principles and applications of agri- 

 cultural 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 July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled 

 " An act donating public lands to the several States and Terri- 

 tories which may provide colleges for the benefit of ag^riculture 

 and the mechanic arts," or any of the supplements to said act, 

 a department to be known and designated as an " agricultural 

 experimentstation :" Provided, That in any State or Territory 

 in which two such colleges have been or may be so established 

 the appropriation 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 duty of said experi- 

 ment stations to conduct original researches or verify experi- 

 ments 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 dif- 

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