ing and distributing the results as hereinbefore prescribed, the sum of $15,000 is hereby appropriated to each State, to be specially provided for by Congress in the appropriations from year to year, and to each Territory entitled under the provisions of section eight of this act, out of any money in the treasury proceeding from the sales of public lands, to be paid in equal quarterly payments on the first day of January, April, July and October in each year, to the treasurer or other officer duly appointed by the governing boards of said colleges to receive the same, the first payment to be made on the first day of October, 1887: Provided, however, that out of the first annual appropriation so received by any station an amount not exceeding one-fifth may be expended in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building or buildings necessary for carrying on the work of such station; and thereafter an amount not exceeding 5 per centum of such annual appropriation may be so expended.

SEC. 6. That whenever it shall appear to the secretary of the treasury, from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said stations that a portion of the preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station, in order that the amount of money appropriated to any station shall not exceed the amount actually and necessarily required for its maintenance and support.

SEC. 7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or modify the legal relation existing between any of the said colleges and the government of the States or Territories in which they are respectively located.

SEC. 8. That in States having colleges entitled under this section to the benefits of this act, and having also agricultural experiment stations established by law separate from said colleges, such States shall be authorized to apply such benefits to experiments at stations so established, by such States; and in case any State shall have established, under the provisions of said act of July 2 aforesaid, an agricultural department or experimental station in connection with any university, college, or any institution not distinctively an agricultural college or school, and such State shall have established, or shall hereafter establish a separate agricultural college or school, which

shall have connected therewith an experimental farm or station, the legislature of such state may apply in whole or in part the appropriation by this act made, to such separate agricultural college or school; and no legislature shall, by contract, express or implied, disable itself from so doing.

SEC. 9. That the grants of moneys authorized by this act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purpose of said grants: Provided, That payments of such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any State before the adjournment of the regular session of its legislature meeting next after the passage of this act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof duly certified to the secretary of the treasury.

SEC. 10. Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as binding the United States to continue any payments from the treasury to any or all the States or institutions mentioned in this act, but Congress may at any time amend, suspend or repeal any or all of the provisions of this act.

OBSERVANCE OF THE FERTILIZER LAW.

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List of manufacturers who have paid licenses as required by the fertilizer law and of the fertilizers which have been thus licensed for sale in the State during the year ending December 31,1887:

FIRM.

Bowker Fertilizer Co.,

Boston, Mass.

Bradley Fertilizer Co.,

BRAND OF FERTILIZER.

Bowker's Hill and Drill Phos

phate.

Stockbridge Manure.

Potato Phosphate.

Ammoniated Dissolved Bone.

Bradley's X L Superphosphate.

Boston, Mass. B. D. Sea Fowl Guano.

Cumberland Bone Co.,

Special Soluble Fertilizer, No.

22.

Cumberland Superphosphate.

Portland, Me. Cumberland Seeding Down

Fertilizer.

NOTE.-No samples of Original Coe's Superphosphate could be found in the State, and hence no analyses have been made of this brand.

INSPECTION OF FERTILIZERS.

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During the past year the Station has drawn and analyzed about one hundred and twenty-five samples of licensed fertilizers.

In order that the analysis of a fertilizer may be of value, it must fairly represent the average composition of that fertilizer. Great care is necessary in drawing a sample for analysis, to get one that is a fair sample. In this State a sampling tube is used that takes a section or core out of the entire length of the package, and thus insures fair sampling. In addition to this precaution, the State law requires the analysis of at least three different samples of each brand, so that the average of these may be taken to fairly represent the general character of the fertilizer. All the samples analyzed in 1887 were drawn by the Director of the Experiment Station, either in person or by deputy.

EXPLANATION OF TERMS.

The following explanations of the meaning of the terms used to designate the valuable ingredients of fertilizers, is taken largely from the last Vermont report of fertilizer analyses for 1886.

The ingredients of commercial fertilizers upon which both their agricultural and commercial values chiefly depend are nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash. Besides these more valuable ingredients, sulphuric acid and lime are always present in superphosphates in considerable quantities, being a necessary accompaniment of phosphoric acid as it exists in all fertilizers.

Nitrogen is the most costly of the three important ingredients mentioned, and adds largely to the commercial value of all the fertilizers sold in Vermont. It is found in the wholesale markets in quite a variety of substances which are used to supply this ingredient to mixed fertilizers, but which are available