Transfer of lands from farms to United States for demonstration purposes

In the event the government of the United States should undertake at any time to establish, in either of the parishes in which the state farms are situated, any agricultural, cattle, stock, or other demonstration farm or station, for the purpose of promoting in any manner the animal industries or agricultural interests of this state or of any section or portion thereof, and for the purpose of so doing should require the requisite lands to be given or the use thereof dedicated to it, the board of control of the state penitentiary under the authority of the governor may in the name of the state dedicate and transfer to the government of the United States, from the farms named, an acreage of not more than that which is dedicated on the farms to the purposes set forth in this Part, or which may be dedicated. The use and enjoyment of the dedicated acreage shall remain with and in the government of the United States as long as the land shall be used for the purposes of agricultural, cattle, stock, or other demonstration farm. In the event of transfer the board of control of the state penitentiary shall exercise no further rights upon the property transferred and shall not be required to conduct and operate the particular farm or farms dedicated to the uses of the United States government.