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for the Wisconsin College of Agriculture to cost $150,000; a $00,000 

 agi'icultural building at Purdue University; a $50,000 agricultural hall 

 at the Oregon State Agricultural College; a $30,000 agricultural build- 

 ing at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts; 

 new barns, a new science building, and an addition to the mechanical 

 building, costing in the aggregate $50,000, at the North Dakota Agri- 

 cultural College ; a $40,000 building for the department of irrigation 

 engineering and the exi^eriment station of the Colorado Agricultural 

 College; two $25,000 buildings — one for chemistrj' and one for veter- 

 inarj^ science — at the College of Agriculture of the University of 

 Minnesota; three buildings — for animal industry, dairying, and hor- 

 ticulture — at the Missouri Agricultural College; a large building 

 containing offices, lecture rooms, and librar^^ and a new barn at 

 the Oklahoma Agricultural College; and a chemistry building at the 

 Kansas Agricultural College. 



Appropriations fully as liberal as these have been made for the cur- 

 rent year in States where legislative sessions were held during the 

 past winter. The general assembly of Iowa has given the Agricul- 

 tural College at Ames a one-fifth mill tax to run for five 3'ears, which 

 is expected to realize about $600,000. This money is to be used for 

 the erection of buildings. An additional appropriation of $135,000 

 was made for the biennial period — $35,000 annually for general main- 

 tenance, $10,000 annually for the experiment station, $5,000 for live 

 stock, $35,000 to begin the erection of the main central building to 

 take the place of the building destroyed by fire, and $5,000 to begin 

 the erection of a barn for the station to replace the one destroyed by 

 fire. Both Iowa and South Dakota have made important additions to 

 their liei'ds of pure-bred cattle. 



The Mississippi Agricultural College has the most liberal appropria- 

 tion in its history, including provision for a new building for agricul- 

 ture and horticulture, scientific departments, library', and museum, 

 $40,000; infirmary building, $10,000; additional equipment for textile 

 school, $13,000; additional equipment for mechanic arts department, 

 $8,300; enlarging capacity- of mechanic arts building, $5,000; farmers' 

 institutes for 1902-1903, $6,000; and a branch experiment station at 

 McNeill, $13,000 for the biennial period. 



Maryland has $25,000 for a new dormitory building and $8,000 for 

 the enlarging and repairing of old buildings. Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College has $35,000 for a central lighting and heating plant 

 and $35,000 for a boarding house. The Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege is erecting a bacteriological laboratory and a stable which will 

 cost about $23,600, and has drawn plans for a new engineering build- 

 ing, a central heating plant, and an addition to the armory and gym- 

 nasium. Florida is to have a new science building to cost about 

 $45,000; Clemson College, South Carolina, a new dormitory-; Texas, a 

 veterinary and chemical laboratory; Utah has completed new barns 

 costing $12,000, and in New York the law appropriating $35,000 for 

 Cornell University extension work has been reenacted. 



Louisiana University is also liberally provided for, though not 

 entirely from State funds. Congress, by a recent act, has ceded to 

 the university the tract of land embracing approximately 150 acres, 

 together with the buildings, which it has occupied subject to th;^ needs 

 of the United States for military' purposes. The tract was originally 

 a military fort, and some j^ears ago was turned over to the State for 

 the use of the university until such time as it might be needed for 

 purposes of defense. Mr. John Hill, a i^rominent sugar planter near 



