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funds for buildings. The acceptance by the State Legislature of the 

 National grants was an implied promise that the institution thus en- 

 dowed would be properly housed by the State. 



Has this implied promise been kept ? 



Yes, by 44 out of 45 States in the Union, all of which have appro- 

 priated money for buildings at their State Colleges. 



Is Vermont the 43th, the only one zvhich has never thus helped its 

 college ? 



It is. 



STATE APPROPRIATIONS SINCE 1900 TO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES FOR 

 BUILDINGS MOSTLY USED FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES : 



NORTH AND SOUTH ATLANTIC AND GULF STATES. 



New Hampshire $ 40,000 South Carolina $ 40,000 



Massachusetts 70.000 Florida 45,000 



Pennsylvania 250.000 Mississippi 89,000 



Delaware 15,000 Louisiana 50,000 



Maryland 33,000 Texas 30^000 



Virginia 5,000 Kentucky and Tennesee, large sums. 



NORTH CENTRAL AND MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATES. 



Maryland $ 70,000 Iowa $655,000 



Illinois 285,000 Missouri 163.000 



Michigan 138.000 Kansas 440,000 



Wisconsin 190 000 Nebraska 140,000 



Minnesota 175.000 South Dakota 50,000 



North Dakota 50,000 Oklahoma 46,000 



FAR WESTERN STATES. 



Colorado $ 80,000 Washington $ 60,000 



Wyoming 136 000 Idaho 60,000 



Utah 12,000 Montana 215,000 



New Mexico 25,000 Oregon 50,000 



Of the colleges in the fifteen States and Territories not mentioned above: 

 Eight have received State appropriations within two years ranging from $15,500 to 

 $247,000 "for building or other special purposes;" six have had most or all of their build- 

 ings erected by State funds. 



One State — Vermont — is the only one in the Union which has never spent a cent for bricks 

 and mortar at its State College. 



STATE APPROPRIATIONS FOR BUILDINGS AT NEW ENGLAND AGRICUL- 

 TURAL COLLEGES : 



Maine $198,250 



New Hampshire Approximately, 190,000 



Massachusetts Approximately, 300,000 



Rhode Island 170,000 



Connecticut Approximately, 100,000 



Vermont _ 



STATE APPROPRIATIONS TO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES EXCLUSIVE OF 

 EXPERIMENT STATIONS: 



1900 $2,633,472 41— Vermont $6,000 00 



1901 3.129,659 43— Vermont 6,000 00 



1902 4,313,654 29— Vermont 6,000 00 



Vermont contains 0.60 per cent, of the farmers, 0.50 per cent, of the population and 

 probably not far from 1 per cent, of the farmers of the nation. Her appropriation to 

 the State College, however, is less than 0.15 per cent, of the total. 



How has the College got along thus far and educated its thonsands of 

 students and its six hundred dairy students ? 



In buildings erected by private benefaction and from college funds. 



May not the College make use of some of the fine buildings it now 

 has for dairy school purposes ? 



A Dairy School cannot be conducted in a library, a chemical labor- 



