STATISTICS OF LAND-GRANT COLLEGES AND AGRICULTURAL 



EXPERIMENT STATIONS, 191L 



By Butler B. Hake, Assistant in Agricultural Education. 



The following statistical statements relate to the institutions estab- 

 lished under the acts of Congress of July 2, 1802, and August 30, 

 1890, most of which maintain courses of instruction in agriculture, 

 and to the agricultural experiment stations, which, with few excep- 

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

 are conducted as departments of the institutions receiving the benefits 

 of the land-grant act of 1802. These statistics have been compiled 

 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 disbursements on account of the acts of 

 Congress of March 2, 1887, August 30, 1890, March IG, 1906, and 

 March 4, 1907, prepared from figures furnished by the Departments 

 of the Treasury and the Interior, are also included. Owing to the 

 complex organizations of many of the institutions, it is impracticable 

 to give exactly comparable statistics in all cases, and in some instances 

 the data furnished are incomplete. 



SUMMARY OF STATISTICS OF LANL-GRANT COLLEGES. 



Educational institutions receiving the benefits of the acts of Con- 

 gress of July 2, 1862, August 30, 1890. and March 4, 1907, are now 

 in operation in all the States and Territories except Alaska. The 

 total number of these institutions is 67, all of which maintain courses 

 of instruction in agriculture. The aggregate value of the permanent 

 funds and equipment of the land-grant colleges and universities in 

 1911 is estimated to be as follows : Land-grant fund of 1862, $13,533,- 

 88.0.92 ; other land-grant funds, $3,320,958.36 : other endowment funds, 

 $19,053,289.02; land grant of 1862 still unsold. $5,300,563.37; farms 

 and grounds owned by the institutions, $21,480,453.34; buildings, 

 $40,011,931.74; scientific apparatus, machinery, and furniture, $11.- 

 855,122.13; libraries, $5,335,051..53; live stock, $741,077.19; total. 

 $120,632,332.60. The income of these institutions in 1911, exclusive 

 of the funds received from the United States for agricultural experi- 

 ment stations ($1,365,913.29), was as follows: Interest on land-grant 

 funds of 1862, $802,208.12; interest on other land-grant funds, $398,- 

 520.69; United States appropriation under acts of 1890 and 1907, 



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