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8 . science, there shall be established in connection with under
9 . direction of the college or colleges, or agricultural depart-
10 . ment 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 ex-
2 . periment 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 rem-
5 . edies for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants
6 . at their different stages of growth; the comparative advan-
7 . tages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series
8 . of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation
9 . withing the isothermal limits represented by the climate of the
10 . several stations and their vicinity; the analysis of soils and | 6482
8 . sciene, there shall be established in connection with under
9 . direction of the college or colleges, or agricultural depart-
10 . ment 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 ex-
2 . periment 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 rem-
5 . edies for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants
6 . at their different stages of growth; the comparative advan-
7 . tages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series
8 . of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation
9 . withing the isothermal limits represented by the climate of the
10 . several stations and their vicinity; the analysis of soils and |
