SUPPLEMENTARY STATEMENT OF THE 



SECRETARY. 



The College vear now commences ^vith the Autumn term, which befirins 

 during the first week of September, and closes with the Summer term, which 

 ends in the last week of August. It is much more convenient and satisfactory 

 to make the fiscal year correspond with the College year. A resolution was 

 therefore adopted by the State Board of Agriculture instructing the Secretary 

 aud other officers of the College to report on the olst of August. In conse- 

 quence of this change, the foregoing statement of receipts and expenditures 

 for the fiscal year ending August 31st, covers a period of eleven months only. 



At the close of the fiscal year all bills against the College rendered to the 

 Secretary were paid ; also the salaries of the several officers and employes. 



The special appropriations made to the College for the years 1877-8 have all 

 been drawn from the State Treasury. The following balances of these appro- 

 priations are yet to be expended : 



Buildings, furniture, and repairs $187 21 



Farm department 217 95 



Library 110 78 



Chemical department 12 Go 



Museum 87 04 



Horticultural department 42 95 



Improvement of Cedar lliver 91 57 



Total unexpended of special appropriations Aug. 31st, 1878 $750 15 



These balances will probably be all expended before the close of the calendar 

 year 1878, as purchases and improvements have been authorized by tlie Board 

 which are much needed, even on a more extended scale, but are authorized 

 only under limitations that will not allow the expenditure to go beyond the 

 a])propriations. 



From the nearest approximate estimate that we can make of the current 

 expenses of the College for the four months of the calendar year yet remaining, 

 and a similar estimate of the resources available to meet these expenses, I feel 

 confident that we shall be able to pay all demands up to January first, 1879 ; 

 thus closing tlie year without debt, altiiougli the receipts from the Congressional 

 Land Grant fund for tlie years 18'* 7-8 have fallen short of the auiount 

 estimated for these years about three thousand dollars. 



