104 EDUCATION IN DAIRY FARMING, AND 



colleges or stations, but the Board of Regents of the State 

 University has been authorised to use income from the national 

 grants for their support, and by judicious management of these 

 funds the college and station have now a capital of about 

 £100,000. In addition to this, the farm, originally valued at 

 £1000 in 1870, has increased in value until it is to-day worth 

 £115,000. Figures like these account for the flourishing condi- 

 tion of the State colleges of America. It is proposed to com- 

 mence the work of practical dairying on the 1st May in the 

 present year. The farmers' institutes, which commenced in 

 1881, were inaugurated by this college, and last year Superin- 

 tendent Porter of the college held 31 of these meetings, for 

 which £1400 has been granted annually for two years. 



Florida. — Mr A. Holladay, of the State Agricultural College 

 at Lake City, Florida, says that there is not one place in the 

 whole State where dairying is taught. • " We are trying hard to 

 get money enough to do just that very thing here, and if the 

 means to be had through the Hatch Bill fall in as we hope, then 

 we shall be able to do the thing properly." Mr Holladay adds, 

 that until the last session of Legislature his college asked in vain 

 for money to put the experimental station in fair operation, and 

 then all they could get was £600. Farmers' conferences are held 

 in many counties, and some have been meetings of importance, 



Colorado. — The information conveyed in a letter from the 

 State College — which is difficult to decipher — appears to show 

 that a tax is levied for the support of the college, which receives 

 an annual grant of £5600. It is also stated that the sale of 

 some of the college land will in another year increase its income. 

 There are numerous farmers' meetings or institutes held in differ- 

 ent parts of the State, but no grant is made for their support. 

 The butter-makers of Colorado are agitating in order to protect 

 themselves, and they have formed an important association. 



Iowa. — President Chamberlain, of the State Agricultural Col- 

 lege of Iowa, writes that dairying is taught at his college, which 

 since 1862 has received a trifle more than £80,000 from the Legis- 

 lature. This year from eight to ten farmers' meetings are being 

 held, and a grant of £30 is made by the college for each meeting. 

 The Legislature is to be asked for £600 during the coming session. 



Maine. — Dairying is taught at the State College of Agricul- 

 ture, which has received at various times grants amounting in 

 all to £50,000. There is also an experiment station to which 

 £1000 a year is granted. Farmers' meetings are held each year 

 to the number of from twenty-five to thirty, and for this purpose 

 £420 is provided by the State. Mr Z. A. Gilbert, the Secretary 

 of the Board of Agriculture, kindly f\irnished these particulars. 



Virginia. — The Com.missioner of Agriculture for Virginia, Mr 

 Randolph Harrison, states that there are no institutions where 



