STATISTICS OF LA\I>GRA\T COLLEGES AND AGRICULTURAL 



il\pi:rimi-:xt stations, vm. 



Compiled by Miss M. T. Spethmann. 



The followincr statistical statements relate to the institutions estab- 

 lished under the acts of Congress of July "2, 1SH2, and August 30, 

 18U0, most of which maintain courses of instruction in agriculture, 

 and to the agricultural experiment stations, which, with a 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-orant act of July 2, 1862, These statistics have been 

 compiled in part from replies to a circular of in([uiry 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 pre- 

 scribed by the Commissioner of Education, Tables showing the annual 

 disbursements on account of the acts of Congress of March 2, 1887, 

 and August 30, ISiH), prepared in the Departments of the Treasury 

 and the Interior, are also included. Owing to the complex organiza- 

 tion of many of the institutions, it is impracticable to give exactly 

 comparable statistics in all cases, and in some instances the data fur- 

 nished are incomplete, 



SUMMARY OF STATISTICS OF LAND-GRANT COLLEGES. 



Educational institutions receiving the benefits of the acts of Con- 

 gress of July 2, 1862, and August 30, 1890, are now in operation in 

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

 The total luunber of these institutions is 65, of which 63 maintain courses 

 of instruction in agriculture. The aggregate value of the permanent 

 funds and e<iuipnient of the land-grant colleges and universities in l!t03 

 is estimated to l)e as follows: Land-grant fund of 1862, ^11. I4n,S'.M).r)l; 

 other land-grant funds, ^2,841), 293,1!»; other permanent funds, $14,926,- 

 747.49; land grant of 1862 still unsold, !ii4,292,460.26; farm aiidgrounds 

 owned by the institutions, ii^o, 610,441. 03; buildings, !?2l, 246,159.88; 

 apparatus, $2, 379, 742. 2S; machinery, $1,112,805,28; libraries, $2,114,- 

 802. ♦'.(); live stock, $252,490.66; miscellaneous ecpiipment, $3,852,- 

 629,77; total, $69,778,463.25, The income of these institutions in 



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