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8 science, there shall be established [in connection with] under
9 direction of the college or colleges, or agricultural department
10 of colleges, in each State or Territory established, or
11 which may hereafter be established, in accordance with the
12 provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred
13 and sixty-two, entitled "An act donating public lands to the
14 several States and Territories which may provide colleges for
15 the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," or any of
16 the supplements to said act, a department to be known and
17 designated as an "agricultural experiment station:" Provided,
18 That in any State or Territory in which two such colleges
19 have been or may be so established the appropriation herein
20 after made to such State or Territory shall be equally divided
21 between such colleges, unless the legislature of such State or
22 Territory shall otherwise direct,

1 Sec. 2. That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment
2 stations to conduct original researches or verify
3 experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the
4 diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies
5 for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants
6 at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages
7 of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series
8 of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation
9 [within the isothermal limits represented by the climate of the
10 several stations and their vicinity]; the analysis of soils and

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8 science, there shall be established [in connection with] under
9 direction of the college or colleges, or agricultural department
10 of colleges, in each State or Territory established, or
11 which may hereafter be established, in accordance with the
12 provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred
13 and sixty-two, entitled "An act donating public lands to the
14 several States and Territories which may provide colleges for
15 the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," or any of
16 the supplements to said act, a department to be known and
17 designated as an "agricultural experiment station:" Provided,
18 That in any State or Territory in which two such colleges
19 have been or may be so established the appropriation herein
20 after made to such State or Territory shall be equally divided
21 between such colleges, unless the legislature of such State or
22 Territory shall otherwise direct,

1 SEC. 2. That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment
2 stations to conduct original researches or verify
3 experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the
4 diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies
5 for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants
6 at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages
7 of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series
8 of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation
9 [within the isothermal limits represented by the climate of the
10 several stations and their vicinity]; the analysis of soils and