STATISTICS OF LAND-GRANT COLLEGES AND AGRICULTURAL 

 EXPERIMENT STATIONS, 1910. 



By Miss M. T. Spethmann. 



The following statistical statements relate to the institutions estab- 

 lished under the acts of Congress of July 2, 1862, 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 1862. 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 16, 

 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 organization 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 LAND-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, of which 65 niaintain courses of 

 instruction in agriculture. The aggregate value of the permanent 

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

 1910 is estimated to be as follows: Land-gi'ant fund of 1862, 

 $13,361,616.86; other land-grant funds, $3,012,781.84; other en- 

 dowment funds, $17,161,657.25; land grant of 1862 still unsold, 

 $9,185,818.22; farms and grounds owned by the institutions, $15,838,- 

 518.42; buildings, $42,578,301.92; apparatus, $4,368,706.21; machin- 

 ery, $2,693,847.43; libraries $4,378,389.04; live stock, $602,644.57; 

 miscellaneous equipment, $4,330,706.83; total, $117,512,988.59. The 

 income of these institutions in 1910, exclusive of the funds re- 

 ceived from the United States for agricultural experiment stations 

 ($1,271,200), was as follows: Interest on land-gi-ant funds of 1862, 



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