Pennsylvania Act 1913-796 — PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE AGRICULTURE EXPERIMENTS

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PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE AGRICULTURE EXPERIMENTS
                 Act of Jul. 25, 1913, P.L. 1292, No. 796             Cl. 24
                                  AN ACT

     Enabling the Pennsylvania State College to carry the benefits of
        its investigations to the farmers of the State; and making an
        appropriation for that purpose.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That in order to bring
     directly to the farmers of Pennsylvania the results of the
     thirty-one years of experiments conducted by the Agricultural
     Experiment Station in soil fertilization, farm crops, fruits,
     vegetable, dairying, poultry, and farm animals, and in order
     thereby to increase rural prosperity and to better rural
     conditions, the trustees of the Pennsylvania State College may
     employ and maintain resident county advisers and traveling
     experts in farm management; conduct farmers' weeks, co-operative
     experiments, and field demonstrations, for purposes of
     instruction; make exhibits and demonstrations at county fairs;
     prepare and operate exhibit cars; maintain reading and
     correspondence courses intended for rural communities; conduct
     contests among school children in growing corn, vegetables,
     fruit and flowers, and in preserving, canning, and sewing; co-
     operate with the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in
     advancing agricultural household management, nature study, and
     manual training, in the rural schools, in the normal schools,
     and in teachers' institutes; prepare, print and distribute
     pamphlets, leaflets and outlines; and conduct such other forms
     of extension work as may seem to the trustees of said
     institution practicable and profitable to the people of the
     State.