The New Jersey agricultural experiment station, hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the "experiment station", with suitable branches, established by the act entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of an agricultural experiment station," approved March tenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty (L.1880, c. 106, p. 137), is continued. The experiment station is established for the benefit of practical and scientific agriculture, and for the development of the unimproved lands of the state.
N.J.S. § 4:16-1