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Ou December 27, liJU!), we took up the Treasurer's account ami 

 found as follows: 



The College and Experiment Station received for the year, 190*J, 

 from the United States Government on account of the Hatch fund, 

 fifteen thousand dollars; on account of the Adams fund, thirteen thou- 

 sand dollars ; on account of the Morrill fund, twenty-eight thousand 

 dollars, and from the interest on $349,881 invested in State certificates 

 representing the Land Grant fund, created from sale of lands which 

 the Government gave the State of Missouri, thirteen thousand dollars. 

 The State of Missouri appropriated for the year, 1909, $175,000 out 

 of the direct tax for general maintenance of the whole University of 

 Missouri. Of this sum the College and Experiment Station received 

 its share for heat, light, and other things necessary to run the de- 

 partments, about $20,000. 



SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS MADE BY THE LAST LEGISLATURE 



AS FOLLOWS: 



Production and distribution of hog cholera serum. 



College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts 



Library in Agricultural department 



Soil survey 



Outlying experiments in soil survey 



Experiment station 



Animal husbandry 



Furnishing new agricultural building 



Power plant for agricultural building 



Horticulture and botany 



$10,000 

 10,000 



1,000 

 15,000 



7,500 

 15,000 

 10,000 

 10,000 

 10,000 



5 , 200 



All of the foregoing special appropriations are given from the 

 collateral inheritance tax, a tax levied upon the estate of persons dying 

 without direct lineal descendants. These appropriations are not direct 

 appropriations of the State of Missouri until the death of some one 

 who will pay the bills. It will thus be seen that the 300,000 farms of 

 Missouri are actually only taxed about $20,000, being a little over seven 

 cents apiece for the maintenance of the College and Experiment Sta- 

 tion, the United States Government being the donor responsible for the 

 largest amount expended. The expenditures of these funds are, for 

 salaries, labor and experiments. The items of these are reported an- 

 nually to the United States Government, which sends an inspector everv 

 year from Washington to examine into the Treasurer's account, and the 

 inspector reports to the Secretary of Agriculture. Up to date the 

 United States Department of Agriculture is well satisfied with the way 

 the money has been expended and the results obtained in its Agricul- 

 tural College of Missouri. 



