The Board of Control of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station is authorized to conduct research and experimental work as to causes and prevention of the various diseases and injuries to the Connecticut tobacco crop which occur in the field or in the processes of preparing the crop for market and for the purpose of improving the tobacco plant by selection and breeding and by cooperative experiments with growers of tobacco. Said board is authorized to accept in the name of the state gifts or loans of land and equipment and gifts of money, to be used exclusively for the purposes of this section. Said board may issue bulletins containing any special information of value to tobacco growers.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 22-83
(1949 Rev., S. 3250.)