STATISTICS OF LAND-GRANT COLLFXES AND AGRICULTURAL 

 EXPERIMENT STATIONS, 1902. 



The following statistical statements relate to the institutions estab- 

 lished under the acts of Congress of July 2, lSt!2, and August 30, 1S90, 

 most of which maintain courses of instruction in agriculture, and to 

 the agricultural experiment stations, which, with a few exceptions, are 

 organized under the act of Congress of March 2, 1887, and are con- 

 ducted as departments of the institutions receiving the benelits of the 

 land-grant act of July 2, 1862. These statistics have been compiled in 

 part from replies to a circular of inquiry sent out from the Office of 

 Experiment Stations and in part from the annual reports of the pres- 

 idents of these institutions made on the schedules prescribed by the 

 Commissioner of Education. Tables showing the annual disburse- 

 ments on account of the acts of Congress of March 2, 1887, and August 

 30, 1890, prepared in the departments of the Treasury and the Inte- 

 rior, 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, and August 30, 1890, are now in operation in 

 all the States and Territories except Alaska. The total number of 

 these institutions is 66, of which 63 maintain courses of instruction in 

 agriculture. The aggregate value of the permanent funds and equip- 

 ment of the land-grant colleges and universities in 1902 is estimated 

 to be as follows: Land-grant fund of 1862, $11,369,031.50; other land- 

 grant funds, $1,079,148.99; other permanent funds, $16,351,870.55; 

 laiid grant of 1862 still unsold, $1,315,516.06; farm and grounds 

 owned by the institutions,. $5,198,577.86; buildings, $20,082,610.60; 

 apparatus, $1,670,306.12; machinery, $1,515,508.28; libraries, $1,979,- 

 313.69; miscellaneous equipment, $3,919,914.60; total, $67,511:,888.25. 

 The income of these institutions in 1902, exclusive of the funds 



