Agricultural Experiment Stations Act of 1887 explained

Agricultural Experiment Stations Act of 1887 is a United States federal statute establishing agricultural research by the governance of the United States land-grant colleges as enacted by the Land-Grant Agricultural and Mechanical College Act of 1862. The agricultural experiment station alliance was granted fiscal appropriations by the enactment of the Hatch Act of 1887. The Act of Congress defines the basis of the agricultural experiments and scientific research by the State or Territory educational institutions.

Scope of Agricultural Research

• Physiology of plants and animals

• Diseases to which they are exposed to include antidotes for determined diseases

• Chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth

• Comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops

• Capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation

• Analysis of soils and water

• Chemical composition of manures, natural, or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds

• Adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants

• Composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals

• Scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese

• Other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories

Concession of Agricultural Experiment Stations

December 4, 1893: First Annual Message to the Congress of the United States

- Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States

Related U.S. Statutes of 1887 Act

Date of Enactment	Public Law No.	U.S. Statute	U.S. Bill No.	U.S. Presidential Administration
February 23, 1901	Pub. Res. 56-9		[1]	Rutherford B. Hayes
March 16, 1906	P.L. 59-47			Theodore Roosevelt
February 24, 1925	P.L. 68-458			Warren G. Harding
March 3, 1927	P.L. 69-770			Calvin Coolidge
February 23, 1929	P.L. 70-797			Calvin Coolidge
March 4, 1931	P.L. 71-846			Herbert Hoover
August 11, 1955	P.L. 84-352			Dwight D. Eisenhower
July 22, 1963	P.L. 88-74			John F. Kennedy
March 5, 1987	P.L. 100-7			Ronald Reagan

See also

Agricultural Experiment Station Barn

Bureau of Animal Industry

Farmers' Bulletin

Henry Leavitt Ellsworth

History of agriculture in the United States

List of land-grant universities

Mechanised agriculture

Smith–Lever Act of 1914

United States Department of Agriculture

External links

• • • Web site: Handbook of Experiment Station Work: A Popular Digest of the Publications of the Agricultural Experiment Stations in the United States . U.S. Office of Experiment Stations . 1893 . Internet Archive . Washington, D.C. . United States Government Printing Office . 846328178.
• Web site: Agricultural Experiment Stations; Their Objects and Work . True . Alfred Charles . 1895 . Internet Archive . Washington, D.C. . United States Government Printing Office . 1039550407.
• Web site: Agricultural Experiment Stations in Foreign Countries . True . Alfred Charles . Crosby . Dick Jay . 1902 . Internet Archive . Washington, D.C. . United States Government Printing Office . 433232975.
• Web site: A History of Agricultural Extension Work in the United States, 1785-1923 . True . Alfred Charles . 1928 . Internet Archive . Washington, D.C. . United States Government Printing Office . 1046018544.
• Web site: Morrill Land Grant Act, July 2, 1862 . NARA Milestone Documents . Washington, D.C. . The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bulletin No. 80 - The Agricultural Experiment Stations of the United States . True . Alfred Charles . Clark . Vinton Albert . 1900 . Internet Archive . Washington, D.C. . United States Government Printing Office . 2650998.