Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 14 — Agricultural Experiment Stations
§ 361b. Congressional statement of policy; researches, investigations and experiments
Statutory text
It is further the policy of the Congress to promote the efficient production, marketing, distribution, and utilization of products of the farm as essential to the health and welfare of our peoples and to promote a sound and prosperous agriculture and rural life as indispensable to the maintenance of maximum employment and national prosperity and security. It is also the intent of Congress to assure agriculture a position in research equal to that of industry, which will aid in maintaining an equitable balance between agriculture and other segments of our economy. It shall be the object and duty of the State agricultural experiment stations through the expenditure of the appropriations hereinafter authorized to conduct original and other researches, investigations, and experiments bearing directly on and contributing to the establishment and maintenance of a permanent and effective agricultural industry of the United States, including researches basic to the problems of agriculture in its broadest aspects, and such investigations as have for their purpose the development and improvement of the rural home and rural life and the maximum contribution by agriculture to the welfare of the consumer, as may be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 49–314 § 2 · 24 Stat. 440
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 361b
Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, § 2, 24 Stat. 440
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, § 2, 24 Stat. 440Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations Scope of researches. to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese: and such 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.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 363 of this title.
Amendments
1955—Act , amended section generally to restate the policy of Congress.
Credits
1887–1955 · 2 acts
- 1887Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, § 2, 24 Stat. 440
- 1955Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 790, § 1, 69 Stat. 671.
Show as published
(Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, § 2, 24 Stat. 440; Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 790, § 1, 69 Stat. 671.)