STATISTICS OF LAND-GRANT COLLEGES AND AGRICULTURAL 



EXPERIMENT STATIONS, 1905. 



By Miss M. T. Spethmann. 



The folloAving statistical statements relate to the institutions estab- 

 lished under the acts of Congress of July 2, 18G2, and August 30, 1890, 

 most of which maintain courses of instruction in agriculture, and to 

 the agricultural experiment stations, which, with few exceptions, 

 are organized under the act of Congress of March 2, 1887, and are con- 

 ducted as departments of the institutions receiving the benefits of the 

 land-grant act of July 2, 1862. These statistics have been compiled 

 in part from replies to a circular of inquiry sent out from the Office 

 of Experiment Stations, and in part from the annual reports of the 

 presidents of these institutions made on the schedules prescribed by 

 the Commissioner of Education. Tables showing the annual dis- 

 bursements on account of the acts of Congress of March 2, 1887, and 

 August 30, 1890, prepared in the Dei^artments of the Treasury and 

 the Interior, are also included. Owing to the complex organization 

 of many of the institutions, it is impracticable to give exactly compar- 

 able statistics in all cases, and in some instances the data furnished 

 are incomplete. 



SUMMARY OF STATISTICS OF LAND-GRANT COLLEGES. 



Educational institutions receiving the benefits of the acts of Con- 

 gress of July 2, 18G2, and August 30, 1890, are now in operation in 

 all the States and Territories except Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Kico. 

 The total number of these institutions is Go, of which G3 maintain 

 courses of instruction in agriculture. The aggregate value of the 

 permanent funds and equipment of tiie land-grant colleges and uni- 

 versities in 1905 is estimated to be as follows: Land-grant fund of 

 1862, $12,049,626.89; other land-grant funds, $3,295,193.51; other 

 permanent funds, $15,968,463.07; land grant of 1862 still unsold, 

 $4,101,749.18; farms and grounds owned by the institutions, $6,665,- 

 013.43; buildings, $28,192,385.11; apparatus, $1,957,030.42; machin- 

 ery, $2,623,995.48; libraries, $2,520,350.21; live stock, $342,998.09; 

 miscellaneous equipment, $3,544,959.03; total, $81,251,764.42. The 

 income of tiiese institutions in 1905, exclusive of the funds received 

 from the United States for agricultural experiment stations ($694,- 

 163.45), was an follows; Literest on land-gruut funds of 1862, $721,- 



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