Report of the President. ii 



It appears from this report that, apart from departmental receipts, 

 fees, and Congressional funds the highest contribution from the 

 University treasury to the maintenance of agricultural instruction 

 was in 1903-4 when it amounted to $5,697.51. 



But these appropriations do not exhaust the service which the 

 University has rendered to the cause of agricultural instruction. It 

 was permitted students in agriculture to take work in other Col- 

 leges of the University free of charge to such extent as the Faculty 

 of Agriculture deem advisable. The Registrar was accordingly 

 instructed to ascertain the amount of such free instruction given to 

 agricultural students during the period covered by the Treasurer's 

 report, which closed with 1904, the year of the passage of the Act 

 in question. As this investigation demanded the compilation of a 

 vast number of figures, the Registrar was instructed to report for 

 the first, the last, and the middle years covered by the Treasurer's 

 report. The Registrar's report is as follows : 



